Wesley Corpus

Come just now. Take me away.” We interrupted her by calling again upon God: on which she sunk down as before: and another young woman began to roar out as loud as she had done. My brother now came in, it being about nine o’clock. We continued in prayer till past eleven ; when God in a moment spoke peace into the soul, first of the first tormented, and then of the other. And they both joined in singing praise to Him, who had *stilled the enemy and the avenger.” Wed. 24.--I preached at Baptist Mills on those words of St. Paul, speaking in the person of one “ under the Law,” (that is, still “ carnal, and sold under sin,” though groaning for deliverance,) “ I know that in me dwelleth no good thing.” A pocr woman told me afterward, “I does hope as my husband wont hinder me any more. For I minded ne did shiver every bone of him, and the tears rar down his cheeks like the rain.” I warned our little society in the evening, to beware of } 162 REY. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. ’ [Oct. 1739. levity, slackness in good works, and despising little things ; which had caused many to fall again into bondage. Thur. 25.--I was sent for to one in Bristol, who was taken ill the evening before. (This fact too I will simply relate, so far as I was an ear or eye witness of it.) She lay on the ground furiously gnashing her teeth, and after a while roared aloud. It was not easy for three er four persons to hold her, especially when the name of Jesus was named. We prayed ; the violence of her symptoms ceased, though without a complete deliverance.