Wesley Corpus

During my stay here, I was fully employed, between our own society in Fetter-lane, and many others, where I was continually desired to expound ; so that I had no thought of leaving London, when I received, after several others, a letter from Mr. Whitefield, and another from Mr. Seward, intreating me, in the most pressing manner, to come to Bristol] without delay. ‘This I was not at all forward to do; and perhaps a little the less inclined to it (though I trust I do not count my life dear unto myself, so I may finish my course with joy) because of the remarkable scriptures which offered as often as we inquired, touching the consequence of this removal: probably permitted for the trial of our faith : “Get thee up into this mountain ;--and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people,” Deut. xxxii, 49, 50. “And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days,” Deut. xxxiv, 8. ‘I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake,” Acts ix, 16. ‘And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him,” Acts viii, 2.