Wesley Corpus

Fri. 15.--I called again. She was saying as I came in, “ My Beloved is mine; and he hath cleansed me from all sin. O how far is the heaven above the earth! So far hath he set my sins from me. O how did he rejoice, when ‘he was heard 1n that he feared!’ He was heard, and he gained a possibility of salvation for me and all mankind. It is finished : his grace is free for all: I am a witness: I was the chief of sinners, a backsliding sinner, a sinner against light and love: but I am washed: I am cleansed.” I asked, “ Do you expect to die now?” She said, “It is not shown me that I shall. But life or death is all one tome. J shall not change my company. Yet I shall more abundantly rejoice when we stand before the Lord; you and I, and all the other children which he hath given you.” In the evening I called upon her again, and fourid her weaker, and her speech much altered. I asked her, “ Do you now believe? Do not you find your soul in temptation?” She answered, smiling and looking up, “ There is the Lamb: and where he is, what is temptation ? I have no darkness, no cloud. The enemy may come; but he hath no part in me.” I said, “ But does not your sickness hinder you 2” She replied, “ Nothing hinders me. It is the Spirit of my Father that worketh in me: and nothing hinders that Spirit. My body indeed is weak and in pain: but my soul is all joy and praise.”