Wesley Corpus

Fri. March 2.--It was the advice of all our brethren, that I should spend a few days at Oxford, whither I accordingly went on Saturday, 3d. A few names I found here also, who had not denied the faith, neither been ashamed of their Lord, even in the midst of a perverse generation. And every day we were together, we had convincing proof, such as it had not before entered into our hearts to conceive, that “He is able to save unto the uttermost all that come to God through him.” One of the most surprising instances of his power which I ever remember to have seen, was on the Tuesday following ; when I visited one who was above measure enraged at this new way, and zealous in opposing it. Finding argument to be of no other effect, than to inflame her more and more, I broke off the dispute, and desired we might join in prayer, which she so far consented to as to kneel dowr. In a few minutes she fell into an extreme agony, both of body and soul ; and soon after cried out with the utmost earnestness, ‘“« Now I know I am forgiven for Christ’s sake.”” Many other words she uttered to the same effect, witnessing a hope full of immortality. And from that hour, God hath set her face as a flint to declare the faith which before she persecuted.