Wesley Corpus

Wed. 15.--The frost was sharper than before. However, five or six hundred people stayed, while I explained the nature of that salvation which is through faith, yea faith alone: and the nature of that living faith through which cometh this salvation. About noon I came to Usk, where I preached to a small company of poor people, on those words, “The Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”” One grey-headed man wept and trembled exceedingly: and another who was there, I have since heard, as well as two or three who were at the Devauden, are gone quite distracted; that is, they mourn and refuse to be comforted, till they “‘ have redemption through his blood.” When I came to Pont-y-Pool in the afternoon, being unable to procure any more convenient place, I stood in the street, and cried aloud to five or six hundred attentive hearers, to ‘‘ believe in the Lord Jesus,” that they might “ be saved.” In the evening I showed his willingness to save all who desire to come unto God through him. Many were melted into tears. It may be, that some will “ bring forth fruit with patience.” Thur. 18.--I endeavoured to cut them off from all false supports and vain dependences, by explaining and applying that fundamental truth, “To him that werketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” When we were | 160 _ REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [ Oct. 1739