Wesley Corpus

~ affirm they were) working in an unusual manner, no way essential either to justification or sanctification ; but that all the rest I must believe to be the mere empty dreams of a heated imagination. Wed. 8.--1 observed that the leaven of stillness is not yet purged out from among us. One of our brethren saying, he was uneasy because he had wilfully neglected the Lord’s Supper, another replied. then his faith was weak; else his peace could not be shaken by such Sept. 1742.] REY. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 269 little things. Yea, but I think such little things as these will shake the peace of any true believer, viz. a wilful breach of any commandment ' of God. If it does not shake us, we are asleep in the devil’s arms. Thur. 9.--I buried the body of Lucy Godshall, one of the first women bands at Fetter-lane. After pressing toward the mark for more thar two years, since she had known the pardoning love of God, she was for some time weary and faint in her mind, till I put her out of the bands. God blessed this greatly to her soul, so that in a short time she was admitted again. Soon after, being at home, she felt the love of God, in an unusual manner, poured into her heart. She fell down upon her knees, and delivered up her soul and body into the hands of God: in the instant the use of all her limbs was taken away, and she was in a burning fever. For three days she mightily praised God, and rejoiced in him all the day long. She then cried out, “* Now Satan hath desired to have me, that he may sift me as wheat.” Immediately darkness and heaviness fell upon her, which continued till Saturday, the 4th instant. On Sunday the light shone again upon her heart. About ten in the evening, one said to her, “Jesus is ready to receive your soul:” she said, ** Amen! Amen!” closed her eyes and died.