Wesley Corpus

Fri. 24.--Several of our friends from London, and some from Kingswood and Bristol, came to Oxford. Alas! how long shall they ‘come from the east, and from the west, and sit down in the kingdom of God,” while the children of the kingdom will not come in, but remain in utter darkness! Sat. 25.--It being my turn, (which, comes about once in three years,) I preached at St. Mary’s, before the University. The harvest truly is plenteous. So numerous a congregation (from whatever motives they came) I have seldom seen at Oxford. My text was the confession of poor Agrippa, “* Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” I have “cast my bread upon the waters.” Let me “find it again after many days!” In the afternoon I set out, (having no time to spare,) and on Sunday, 26, preached at the Foundery, on the * liberty” we have “ to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.” Mon. 277.--Finding notice had been given, that I would preach mn the evening at Hackney, I went thither, and openly declared those glad iudings, ‘* By grace are ye saved through faith.” Many, we heard, had threatened terrible things; but no man opened his mouth. Perceive ye not yet, that “greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world?” Tues. 28.--I visited one that was going heavily and in fear “through the valley of the shadow of death.” But God heard the prayer, and soon lifted up the light of his countenance upon her: so that she immediately broke out into thanksgiving, and the next day quietly fell asleep. Fr. 31.--Hearing that one of our sisters (Jane Muncy) was ill, | went to see her. She was one of the first women bands at Fetterlane ; and, when the controversy concerning the means of grace began, stuod in the gap, and contended earnestly for the ordinances once delivered to the saints. When, soon after, it was ordered, that the unmarried men and women should have no conversation with each other, she again withstood to the face those who were “ teaching for Joctrines the commandments of men.” Nor could all the sophistry of he . ‘a : Aug. 1741.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 217