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once again, to try if we could yet come to any agreement: but O, what an interview was there! He seriously told me he was going to sell his living ; only the purchaser did not seem quite willing to come up to his price. He would fain have proved to me the lawfulness of doing this; and in order thereto he averred roundly, 1. That no honest man can officiate as @ minister in the Church of England. 2. That no man can, with a good conscience, join in the prayers of the Church; “because,” said he ‘“‘ they are all full of horrid lies.” Mon. 9.--A woman came to me from Deptford, sent (as she said) from God. I gave her the hearing : and she spoke great words and true. But I remembered, “ Judge nothing before the time.” Wed. 11.--I went with Mr. Ingham to Islington, purposely to talk with Mr. Molther. But they said, he was so ill, he could not be spoken to. In the evening I went to Fetter-lane, and plainly told our poor, confused, shattered society, wherein they had erred from the faith. It was as I feared: they could not receive my saying. However, I am clear from the blood of these men. Fri. 13.--A great part of our society joined with us in prayer, and kept, I trust, an acceptable fast unto the Lord. Wed. 18.--My brother set out for Bristol. At six I preached in Mary-le-bone Fields, (much against my will, but I believed it was the will of God,) “repentance and remission of sins.” All were quiet, and the far greater part of the hearers seemed deeply attentive. Thence { went to our own society of Fetter-lane : before whom Mr. Ingham (being to leave London on the morrow) bore a noble testimony for the ordinances of God, and the reality of weak faith. But the short answer was, ‘ You are blind, and speak of the things you know not.” Thur. 19.--We discovered another snare of the devil. The woman of Deptford had spoke plain to Mr. Humphreys, ordering him not to preach, to leave off doing good, and, in a word, to be still. We talked largely with her, and she was humbled in the dust, under a deep sense of the advantage Satan had gained over her.