Wesley Corpus

Sun. 21.--We were surprised in the evening, while I was expounding in the Minories. A well-dressed, middle-aged woman, suddenly cried out as in the agonies of death. She continued so to do for some time, ' with all the signs of the sharpest anguish of spirit. When she was a little recovered, I desired her to call upon me the next day. She then told me, that about three years before, she was under strong convictions of sin, and in such terror of mind, that she had no comfort in any thing, nor any rest, day or night ; that she sent for the minister of her parish, and told him the distress she was in: upon which he told her husband, she was stark mad, and advised him to send for a physician immediately. A physician was sent for accordingly, who ordered her to be blooded, blistered, and so on. But this did not heal her wounded spirit. So that she continued much as she was before: till the last night, He whose word she at first found to be “sharper than any two-edged sword,” gave her a faint hope, that he would undertake her cause, and heal the soul which had sinned against him. Thur. 25.--I baptized John Smith (late an Anabaptist) and four other adults at Islington. Of the adults I have known baptized lately one only was at that time born again, in the full sense of the word ; that is, found a thorough, inward change, by the love of God filling her Feb. 1739. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 119 heart. Most of them were only born again in a lower sense ; that is, received the remission of their sins. And some, (as it has since too plainly appeared,) neither in one sense nor the other.