Wesley Corpus

Sun. '7.--I preached in Charles’ Square, on “* The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they. that hear shall live.” A violent storm began about the middle of the sermon: but these things move not those who seek the Lord. So much the more was his power present to heal ; insomuch that many of our hearts danced for joy, praising “the glorious God that maketh the thunder.” Jon. 8.--I set out from Enfield Chase for Leicestershire. Inthe evening we came to Northampton: and the next afternoon to Mr. Ellis’s at Markfield, five or six miles beyond Leicester. For these two days, I had made an experiment which I had been so often and earnestly pressed to do :--Speaking to none concerning 212 REV. J. WESLEY'S JOURNAL. - [June, 1741. , the things of God, unless my heart was free to it. And what was the event ? Why, 1. That I spoke to none at all for fourscore miles together: No, not even to him that travelled with me in the chaise, unless a few words at first setting out. 2. That I had no cross either to bear or to take up, and commonly in an hour or two fell fast asleep. 3. That I had much respect shown me wherever I came; every one behaving to me, as to a civil, good-natured gentleman. O how pleasing is all this to flesh and blood! Need ye ‘‘compass sea and land,” to make ‘“proselytes” to this!