Wesley Corpus

“ But soon after this a new doubt arose, Are the New Testament prophecies fulfilled? This I next set myself to examine. I read them carefully over, and could not but see every event answered the prediction; so that the more I compared the one with the other, the more fully I was convinced that ‘all Scripture was given by inspiration of God.’ a a Aug. 1738. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 87 “ Yet still my soul was not in peace; nor indeed did I expect it, till I should have openly renounced the errors of Popery ; which accordingly I did at Berlin. I now also led a very strict life. Iread much, and prayed much. I did all I could to conquer sin; yet it profited not: I was still conquered by it. Neither found I any more rest among the Lutherans, than I did before among the Papists. * At length, not knowing what to do, I listed myseif a soldier. Now ! thought I should have more time to pray and reed, having with me a New Testament and a hymnbook. But in one day both my books were stole. This almost broke my heart. Finding also in this way of life all the inconveniences which I thought to avoid by it, after six months I returned to my trade, and followed it two years. Removing then to Gorlitz, in Saxony, I fell into a dangerous illness. I could not stir hand or foot for twenty weeks. Pastor Sleder came to me every day. And from him it was that the Gospel of Christ came first with power to my soul. “ Here I found the peace I had long sought in vain; for I was assured ‘my sins were forgiven. Notindeed all at once, but by degrees; not in one