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." 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. 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 !