Wesley Corpus

after we were gone she rose up, called to the person that was with her, and said, ‘ Now it is done; Iam assured my sins are forgiven.’ The person answering, ‘ Death is a little thing to them that die in the Lord;’ she replied with vehemence, ‘A little thing! Itis nothing.’ The person then desiring she would pray for her, she answered, ‘I do: I pray for all. 1 pray for all I,.know, and for them I do not know: and the Lord will hear the prayer of faith.’ At our return, her sister kneeling by the bed-side, she said, ‘Are you not comforted, my dear, for me?’ Her speech then failing, she made signs for her to be by her, and kissed her and smiled upon her, She then lay about an hour without speaking or stirring; till about three o’clock on Monday morning, she cried out, ‘My Lord and my God! fetched a double sigh, and died.” Fri. 29.--Hearing of one who had been drawn away by those who prophesy smooth things, I went to her house. But she was purposely gone abroad. Perceiving there was no human help, I desired the congregation at Short’s Gardens, to join with me in prayer to God, that he would suffer her to have no rest in her spirit, till she returned into the way of truth. Two days after she came to me of her own accord, and confessed, in the bitterness of her soul, that she had no rest, day or night, while she remained with them, out of whose hands God had now delivered her. Mon. February 1.--I found, after the exclusion of some who did not walk according to the Gospel, about eleven hundred, who are, I trust, of a more excellent spirit, remained in the society. Thur. 4.--A clergyman lately come from America, who was at the preaching last night, called upon me, appeared full of good desires, and seemed willing to cast in his let with us. But I cannot suddenly answer in this matter. I must first know what spirit he is of; for none can labour with us, unless he “ count all things dung and dross, that he may win Christ.”