Wesley Corpus

Tues. 26.--I explained at Chelsea, the faith which worketh by love. I was very weak when I went into the room ; but the more “ the beasts of the people” increased in madness and rage, the more was | strengthvned, both in body and soul; so that I believe few in the house, which was exceeding full, lost one sentence of what I spoke. Indeed they could not see me, nor one another at a few yards’ distance, by reason of the exceeding thick smoke, which was occasioned by the wild-fire and things of that kind, continually thrown into the room. But they who could praise God in the midst of the fires, were not to be affrighted by a little smoke. Wed. 2'77.--I buried the body of Saran Wuiskin, a young woman late of Cambridge; a short account of whom follows, in the words of one that was with her, during her last struggle for eternity :--- “The first time she went, intending to hear Mr. Wesley, was January 3; but he was then ill. She went again, Tuesday, 5, and was not dis- a -- o Jan. 1742.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 241 appointed. From that time she seemed quite taken up with the things above, and could willingly have been always hearing, or praying, or sing ing hymns. Wednesday, 13, she was sent for into the country ; at which news she cried violently, being afraid to go lest she should again be conformable to the world. With tears in her eyes, she asked me, ‘ What shall I do? I am in a great strait.’ And being advised to commit her cause to God, and pray that his will might be done, not her own, she said she would defer her journey three days, to wait upon God, that he might show his will concerning her. The next day she was taken ill of a fever ; but being something better on Friday, she sent and took a place in the Cambridge coach, for the Tuesday following. Her sister asked her if she thought it was the will of God she should go. She answered, ‘I leave it to the Lord; and am sure he will find a way to prevent it, if it is ‘not for my good.’ Sunday, 17, she was ill again, and desired me to write