Wesley Corpus

Tues. Dec. 4.--I was violently attacked by some who were exceeding angry at those who cried out so; “being sure,” they said, “ it was all a cheat, and that any one might help crying out, if he would.” _J. Bl. was one of those who were sure of this. About eight the next morning, while he was alone in his chamber, at private prayer, so horrible a dread overwhelmed him, that he began crying out with all his might. All the family was alarmed. Several of them came running up into his chamber ; but he cried out so much the more, till his breath was utterly spent. God then rebuked the adversary ; and he is now less wise in his own conceit. Thur. 6.--I left Bristol, and (after preaching at Malmsbury and Burford in the way) on Saturday, 8, came into my old room at Oxford, from which I went to Georgia. Here, musing on the things that were past, and reflecting, how many that came after me were preferred before me, I opened my Testament on ‘those words, (O may I never let them slip !) “ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.” Sun. 9 --I expounded in the evening to a small, but deeply serious company, * There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus ;” and exhorted them earnestly, to go straight to him, with all their miseries, follies, and sins. wes. 11.--I visited Mrs. - Plat; one who, having long sought death in the error of her life, was brought back to the great Shepherd of her soul, the first time my brother preached faith in Oxford. In the midst of sickness and pain, and the deepest want, she was calmly rejoicing in God. By this faith may I be thus saved! so as in the midst of heaviness, through manifold temptations, without raiment, or food, or health, or friends, to “ rejoice with joy unspeakable.”