Wesley Corpus

Arvin Grapin, a Swede, born in Dalecarlia, spoke to this purpose :-- “ Before I was ten years old, I had a serious sense of religion, and great fervour in prayer. This was increased by my reading much in the New Testament; but the more I read, the more earnestly I cried out, ‘ Either these things are not true, or we are not Christians.’ About sixteen my sense of religion began to decline, by my too great fondness for learning especially the oriental tongues, wherein I was instructed by a private preceptor, who likewise did all that in him lay to instruct me in true tivinity. 3 i sarenicen ‘I went to the University of Upsal, and a year or two * A small coin of about a half-penny [nearly one cent] value. 98 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. | Aug. 1738.