Wesley Corpus

* On the 22d of May last, I could think of nothing but, ‘He that believeth hath everlasting life.’ But I was afraid of deceiving myself, and continually prayed I might not build without a foundation. Yet I hada sweet, settled peace, and for five days this Scripture was always in my thoughts. On the 28th those words of our Lord were strongly impressed upon me, ‘If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Ghost to them that ask him?’ At the same time I was incessantly carried out to ask, . that he would give me the witness of his Spiv*t. On the 29th I had what I asked of him, namely, the *Anpopopia aisewe which is, “* Requies in sanguine Christi. Firma fiducia in Deum, et persuasio de gratia divina ; tranquillitas mentis summa, atque serenitas et pax ; cum sentia onmis desiderit carnalis, et cessatione peccatorum etiam internorum. Verbo, cor quod dniea instar maris turbulenti agitabatur, in summa fuit requie, instar maris serent et tranquillr. *“«* Repose in the blood of Christ. A firm confidence in God, and persuasion of his favour; serene peace and steadfast tranquillity of mind, with a deliverance from every fleshly desire, and from every outward and inward sin. Ina word, my heart, which before was tossed like a troubled sea, was still and quiet, and in a sweet calm.’” In the present discipline of the Church of Hernhuth, all which is alterable at the discretion of the superiors, may be observed, I. The officers of it. II. The division of the people. Ill. The conferences, lectures, and government of the children. IV. The order of divine service. - Aug. 1738.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 99