Wesley Corpus

Mr. Chapman, just come from Germany, gave me a letter from one of our (once) brethren there ; wherein, after denying the gift of God, which he received in England, he advised my brother and me, no longer to take upon us to teach and instruct poor souls; but to deliver them up to the care of the Moravians, who alone were able to instruct them. ' You," said he, "only instruct them in such errors, that they will be damned at last ;"' and added, " St. Peter justly describes you, who 'have eyes full of adultery, and cannot cease from sin ;' and take upon you to guide unstable souls, and lead them in the way of damnation." Our little company met at the Foundery, instead of Fetter-lane. About twenty-five of our brethren God hath given us already, all of whom think and speak the same thing; seven or eight and forty likewise, of the fifty women that were in band, desired to cast in their lot with us. Fri. Aug. 1. I described that "rest" which "remaineth for the people of God." Sunday, 3. At St. Luke's, our parish church, was such a sight as, I believe, was never seen there before: several hundred communicants, from whose very faces one might judge, that they indeed sought him that was crucified. I dined with one, who told me, in all simplicity, " Sir, I thought last week, there could be no such rest as you described; none in this world, wherein we should be so free as not to desire ease in pain. But God has taught me better. For on Friday and Saturday, when I was in the strongest pain, I never once had one moment's desire of ease; but only, that the will of God might be done."