Wesley Corpus

Tues. 28.--My mouth was opened, and my heart enlarged, strongly to declare to above two thousand people at Bradford, that “ the kingdom of God’ within us “is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” At Bath I once more offered Christ to justify the ungodly. In the evening I met my brother, just come from London. ‘The Lord hath” indeed “ done great things for us” already. ‘“ Not unto us, but unto tny name be the praise.” Wed. 29.--I rode with my brother to Wells, and preached on, “* What must I do to be saved?” In the evening I summed up at the new room, what I had said, at many times, from the beginning, of faith, holiness, and good works, as. the root, the tree, and the fruit, which God had joined, and man ought not to put asunder. * To bow down before any one, in token of honouring him. _ t Thatis, the proper use of images is, to honour them, by bowing down before them, 152 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [Sept. 1739. |