Wesley Corpus

Tues. 30.--As I was expounding the twelfth of the Acts, a young man, with sume others, rushed in, cursing and swearing vehemently ; and so disturbed all near him, that, after a time, they put him out. I observed it, and called to let him come in, that our Lord might bid his chains fall off. As soon as the sermon was over, he came and declared before us all that he was a smuggler, then going on that work ; as his disguise, and the great bag he had with him, showed. But he said, he must never do this more: for he was now resolved to have the Lord for his God. Sun. Oct. 5.--I explained the difference between being called a Christian, and being so: and God overruled the madness of the people, so that after I had spoke a few words, they were quiet and attentive to the end. Mon. 6.--While I was preaching at Islington, and rebuking sharply those that had made shipwreck of the faith, a woman dropped 196 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [ Nov. 1740_ down, struck, as was supposed, with death, having the use of all her limbs quite taken from her: but she knew the next day, she should ‘not die, but live, and declare the loving kindness of the Lord.”