Wesley Corpus

and devouring one another. I pray God, ye be not consumed one of another. Mon. 24.--After spending part of the night at Fetter-lane, I went to a smaller company, where also we exhorted one another with hymns and spiritual songs, and poured out our hearts to God in prayer. Toward morning one of them was overwhelmed with joy and love, and could not help showing it by strong cries and tears. At this another was much displeased, saying, it was only nature, imagination, and animal spirits.--O thou jealous God, lay not this sin to her charge! And let us not be wise above what is written. Sun. 30.--One came to me, by whom I used to profit much. But her conversation was now too high for me: it was far above, out of my sight. My soul is sick of this sublime divinity. Let me think and speak as a little child! Let my religion be plain, artless, simple! Meekness, temperance, patience, faith, and love, be these my highest gifts : and let the highest words wherein I teach them, be those I learn from the book of God! Mon. 31.--I had a long and particular conversation with Mr. Molther himself. I weighed all his words with the utmost care, desired him to explain what I did not understand ; asked him again and again, “ Do I not mistake what you say? Is this your meaning, or is it not?” So that I think, if God has given me any measure of understanding, I could not mistake him much. As soon as I came home, I besought God to assist me, and not suffer “ the blind to go out of the way.” I then wrote down what I conceived to be the difference between us, in the following words :--