Wesley Corpus

Mon. '7.--I preached at Burnham, a mile from Epworth, on ‘The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.” At eight in the evening I stood again on my father’s tomb, (as I did every evening this week,) and cried aloud to the earnestly attentive congregation, ‘ By grace are ye saved through faith.” Tues. 8.--I walked to Hibbaldstow (about twelve miles from Epworth) to see my brother and sister. The minister of Ouston (two miles from Epworth) having sent me word, I was welcome to preach in his church, I called there in my return; but his mind being changed, I went to another place in the town, and there explained, “Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.” At eight I largely enforced at Epworth the great truth, (so little understood in what is called a Christian country,) *¢ Unto him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness.” I went thence ito the place where the little society met, which was sufficiently thronged ‘both within and without. Here I found some from Hainton, (a town twenty miles off,) who informed us, that God had begun a work there ‘also, and constrained several to cry out in the bitterness of their soul, “« What must I do to be saved ?”