Wesley Corpus

“This had been just and honest, and not more than we have deserved at your hands. I say we; for God is my witness, how condescendingly loving I have been toward you. Yet did you so forget yourself, as both openly and privately to contradict my doctrine; while, in the mean time, [T was as a deaf man that heard not, neither answered a word, either in private or public. Ah,my brother! Iam distressed for you. I would,-- but you will not receive my saying. ‘Therefore I can only commit you to Him who hath commanded us to forgive one another, even as God, for Christ’s sake, hath forgiven us.” Sun. 15.--I preached twice at Kingswood, and twice at Bristol, on those words of a troubled soul, “* O that I had wings like a dove; for then would I flee away, and be at rest.” One of the notes I received to-day was as follows: ‘ A person whom God has visited with a fever, and has wonderfully preserved seven days in a hay mow, without any sustenance but now and then a little water out of a ditch, desires to return God thanks. The person is present, and ready to declare what God has done both for his body and soul. For the three first days of his illness, he felt nothing but the terrors of the Lord greatly fearing lest he should drop into hell; till after long and earnest prayer, he felt himself given up to the will of God, and equally content to live or die. Journal J.--14 a 206 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. | April, 1741 Then he fell into a refreshing slumber, and awaked full of peace and the love of God.” ‘