Wesley Corpus

“On Wednesday night he wrestled much with God in prayer. At last, throwing his arms open, he cried, ‘Come, come, Lord Jesus! I am thine. Amen and amen.’ He said, ‘God answers me in my heart, Be of good cheer, thou hast over.ome the world ;? and immediately after, he was filled with love and joy unspeakable. He said to his mother, ‘ That school was the saving of my soul; for there I began to seek the Lord. But how is it, that a person no sooner begins to seek the Lord, but Satan straight stirs up all his instruments against him?’ When he was in agony of pain, he cried out, ‘O Saviour, give me patience! Thou hast given me patience, but give me more. Give me thy love, and pain is nothing: I have deserved all this, and a thousand times more; for there is no sin but I have been guilty of.’ “A while after, he said, ‘O mother, how is this? If a man does not do his work, the masters in the world will not pay him his wages. But it is not so with God; he gives me good wages, and yet | am sure I have done nothing to gain them. O it is a free gift; it is free for every soul, for Christ has died for all.2 On Thursday morning his mother asked him how he did: he said, ‘I have had much struggling to-night, but my Saviour is so loving to me, I do not mind it; it is no more than nothing to me.’ Then he said, ‘I desire to be buried from the Room; and I desire Mr. Wesley would preach a sermon over me, on those words of David, (unless he thinks any other to be more fit,) Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now I have kept thy word.’