Wesley Corpus

After reading this twice or thrice over, as distinctly as I could, I asked, “My brethren, is this right, or is it wrong?” Mr. Bell answered immediately, “It is right; itis all right. It is the truth. Too this we must all come, or we never can come to Christ.” Mr. Bray said, “I believe our brother Bell did not hear what you read, or did not rightly understand.” But Mr. Bell replied short, “ Yes, I heard every word; and I understand it well. I say, it is the truth ; it is the very truth; it is the inward truth.” Many then laboured to prove, that my brother and I laid too much stress upon the ordinances. To put this matter beyond dispute, “1,” said Mr. Bowes, “used the ordinances twenty years ; yet I found not Christ. But I left them off only for a few weeks, and I found him then. And I am now as close united to him as my arm is to my body.” One asked, whether they would suffer Mr. Wesley to preach at Fetter-lane. After a short debate, it was answered, “ No: this place is taken for the Germans.” | Some asked, whether the Germans had converted any soul in England: whether they had not done us muck. hurt, instead of good ; raising a division of which we could see no end: and whether God did not many times use Mr. Wesley for the healing our divisions, when we were all in confusion. Several roundly replied, “Confusion! What do you mean? We were never in any confusion at all.” I said, “* Brother Edmonds, you ought not to say so ; because I have your letters now in my hands.” Mr. Edmonds replied, ‘ ‘That is not the first time I have put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” We continued in useless debate till about. eleven. I then gave them up to God. Fri. 18.--A few of us joined with my mother in the great sacrifice of thanksgiving ; and then consulted how to proceed with regard to our poor brethren of Fetter-lane: we all saw the thing was now come to a crisis, and were therefore unanimously agreed what to do.