Wesley Corpus

Wed. 8.--I ended my course of visiting ; throughout which I found great cause to bless God ; so very few having drawn back to perdition out of nineteen hundred and fifty souls. Sat. 18.--I received a full account of the terrible riots which had been in Staffordshire. I was not surprised at all: neither should I have wondered if, after the advices they had so often received from the pulpit, as well as from the episcopal] chair, the zealous high churchmen had rose, and cut all that were Methodists in pieces. Mon. 20.--Resolving to assist them as far as I could, I set out early inthe morning ; and after preaching at Wycomb about noon, in the evening came to Oxford. Tuesday, 21.--We rode to Birmingham ; and in the morning, Wednesday, 22, to Francis Ward’s, at Wednesbury. Although I knew all that had been done here was as contrary to law as it was to justice and mercy, yet I knew not how to advise the poor sufferers, or to procure them any redress. I was then little acquaintea with the English course of law, having long had scruples concerning it But, as many of these were now removed, I thought it best to inquire whether there could be any help from the laws of the land. I therefore rode over to Counsellor Littleton, at Tamworth, who assured us, we might have an easy remedy, if we resolutely prosecuted, in the manner he law directed, those rebels against God and the king. Thur. 23.--I left Wednesbury, and in the evening preached at Mel- pe os ait al July, 1743. ] REV. J, WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 287 bourn, in Derbyshire. I preached at Nottingham (where I met my brother coming from the north) on Friday, and on Saturday and Sunday at Epworth. Von. 27.--I preached at Awkborough, on the Trent side, to a stupidly-attentive congregation. We then crossed over, ana rode to Sykehouse; on Tuesday to Smeton, and on Wednesday to Newcastle. Thur. 30.--I immediately inquired into the state of those whom I left here striving for the mastery ; and some of them, I founc, were grown faint in their minds: others had turned back “as a dog to the vomit ;” but about six hundred still continued striving together fou the hope of the Gospel. Monday, July 4, and the following days, I had time to finish the