Wesley Corpus

Wed. 16.--While I was declaring at Baptist Mills, «He was wounded for our transgressions,” a middle-aged man began violently beating his breast, and crying to Him, “by whose stripes we are healed.” During our prayer God put a new song in his mouth. Some mocked, and others owned the hand of God: particularly a woman of Baptist Mills, who was now convinced of her own want of an Advocate with God, and went home full of anguish ; but was in a few hours filled with joy, knowing he had “blotted out” all her “ transgressions.” The scripture which came in turn at Newgate to-day, was the seventh of St. John. The words which I chiefly insisted on as applicable to every minister of Christ, who in any wise follows the steps of his Master, were these: “ The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. ‘There was a murmuring, therefore, concerning him among the multitude ; for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay, but he deceiveth the people.” After sermon I was informed the sheriffs had ordered, I should preach here, for the future, but once a week. Yea, and this is once too often, if “he deceiveth the people :” but if otherwise, why not once a day? Sat. 19. --At Weaver’s Hall, a woman first, and then a boy about fourteen years of age, was overwhelmed with sin, and sorrrow, and fear. But we cried to God, and their souls were delivered. Sun. 20.--Seeing many of the rich at Clifton church, my heart was much pained for them, and I was earnestly desirous that some even of them might ‘enter into the kingdom of heaven.” But full as I was, I knew not where to begin in warning them to flee from the wrath to come, till my Testament opened on these words: “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance:” In applying which, my soul was so enlarged, that methought I could have cried out, (in another sense than poor vain Archimedes,) ‘Give me where to stand, and I will shake the earth.” God’s sending forth lightning with the rain, did not hinder about fifteen hundred from staying at Rose Green. Our