Wesley Corpus

Till Saturday, the 10th, I think I did not meet with one woman of the society who had not been upon the point of casting away her contidence in God. I then indeed found one, who, when many (according ¥ SP Se ee oe ee 168 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. | [Nov. 1739 to their custom) laboured to persuade her she had no faith, replied, with a spirit they were not able to resist, “ I know that the life which I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me: and he has never left me one moment, since the hour he was. made known to me in the breaking of bread.” What is to be inferred. from this undeniable matter of fact,--one that had not faith received it in the Lord’s Supper? Why, 1. That there are means of grace, that -- is, outward ordinances, whereby the inward grace of God is ordinarily conveyed to man ; whereby the faith that brings salvation is conveyed to them who before had it not. 2. That one of these means is the Lord’s Supper. And, 3. That he who has not this faith ought to wait for it, in the use both of this, and of the other means which God hath ordained. Fri. 9.--I showed how we are to examine ourselves, whether we be in the faith; and afterward recommended to all, though especially to them that believed, true stillness, that is, a patient waiting upon God, by lowliness, meekness, and resignation, in all the ways of his holy . Law, and the works of his commandments. All this week I endea voured also by private conversation to “ comfort the feeble-minded,” and to bring back “ the lame” which had been “ turned out of the way,” if haply it might be healed.