Wesley Corpus

Jesus, thou hast bid us pray, Pray always and net faint: With the word a power convey To utter our complaint. After singing a verse or two we kneeled down to prayer. I had but just begun, (my eyes being shut,) when I felt as if I had been plunged into cold water; and immediately there was such a roar, that my veice was quite drowned, though I spoke as loud as I usually do to three or four thousand people. However, I prayed on. She was then reared up in the bed, her whole body moving at once, without bending one joint or limb, just as if it were one piece of stone. Immediately after it was writhed into all kind of postures, the same horrid yell continuing still. But we left her not till all the symptoms ceased, and she was (for the present, at least) rejoicing and praising God. Between one and two I preached at Stratford, on, “ The Son of Man hath power upon earth to forgive sins.” Most of the hearers stood like posts: but some mocked, others blasphemed, and a few believed. I preached at Evesham in the evening ; rode to Painswick the next day, and on Saturday, 15, to Bristol; where, the following week, I spoke to each member of the society, and rejoiced over them, finding they had not been “ barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Mon. 24.--I preached at Bath. Some of the rich and great were present ; to whom, as to the rest, I declared with all plainness of speech, Feb. 1743.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 279