Wesley Corpus

Sun. 17.--I enforced that necessary caution, “ Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall.”” Let him that is full of joy and love, take heed lest he fall into pride ; he that is in calm peace, lest he fall into desire ; and he that is in heaviness through manifold temptations, lest he fall into anger or impatience. I afterward heard a sermon, setting forth the duty of getting a good estaie, and keeping a good reputation. Is it possible to deny (supposing the Bible true) that such a preacher is a “blind leader of the blind ?”’ Tues. 19.--I was desired to go and pray with one who had sent for me several times before, lying in the new prison, under sentence of death, which was to be executed in a few days. I went; but the gaoler said, Mr. Wilson, the curate of the parish, had ordered I should not see him. Wed. 20.--I offered remission of sins to a small serious congregation near Deptford. Toward the end, a company of persons came in, dressed in habits fit for their work, and laboured greatly either to provoke or divert the attention of the hearers. But no man answering them a word, they were soon weary, and went away. Thur. 21.--I was deeply considering those points wherein our German brethren affirm we err from the faith, and reflecting how much holier some of them were than me, or any people I had yet known. But I was cut short in the midst by those words of St. Paul, 1 Tim. v, 21, “I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things, without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.” Fri. 22.--I was desired to pray with an old hardened sinner, supposed to be at the point of death. He knew not me ; nor ever had heard me preach. I spoke much Sept. 1740. ] REV. J. WRSLEY’S JOURNAL. 193 but he opened not his mouth. But no sooner did I name “ the Saviour