Wesley Corpus

Fri. September 2.--I rode to St. Agnes. We found the great man, Mr. Donythorne, was dead. His mother and sister sent to invite me to their house. After preaching I went thither, and was received into a comfortable lodging, with the most free and cordial affection. ‘So in this place the knowledge of God has already travelled “ from the least unto the greatest.” Sat. 3.--Some who live here gave me an account of the earthquake onJuly 15. There was first a rumbling noise under the ground, hoarser and deeper than common thunder. Then followed a trembling of the earth, which afterward waved once or twice to and fro so violently that one said he was obliged to take a back step, or he should have fallen down; and another, that the wall against which he was leaning seemed to be shrinking from him. This morning I talked at large with old Mrs. Donythorne, who has her understanding entire, reads without spectacles, walks without a staff, and has scarce a wrinkle, at ninety years of age. But what is more than all this, she is teachable as a child, and groaning for salvation. In the afternoon I spent an hour with Mr. Vowler, curate of the parish, who rejoices in the love of God, and both preaches and lives the Gospel. Sun. 4.--I. T. preached at five. I could scarce have believed if I nad not heard it, that few men of learning write so correctly as an unlearned tinner speaks extempore. Mr. V. preached two such thunuering sermons at church as I have scarce heard these twenty years. O how gracious is God to the poor sinners of St. Agnes! In the my, eT < - nek @) 7 _ “4 ts oe : ‘6 Vite ee % iin vil 642 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [Sept. 1757. church and vut of the church they hear the same great truths of the wrath of God against sin, and his love to those that are in Christ Jesus !