Wesley Corpus

Thur. 25.--My subject, in the evening, was, “ As ye have received Jesus Christ the Lord, so walk ye in him.” O what a season was this! I scarce remember such an hour since the first stone of the house was laid. Fri. 26.--I set out for Cormmwall. In the evening I preached at the Cross in Taunton, on, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” A poor man had posted himself behind, in order to make some distubance: but the time was not come; the zealous wretches who “deny the Lord that bought them,” had not yet stirred up the people. Many cried out, ** Throw down that rascal there: knock him down: beat out | his brains :” so that I was obliged to intreat for him more than once, or he would have been but roughly handled. Sat. 2’77.--I reached Exeter in the afternoon; but as no one knew of my coming, I did not preach that night, only to one poor sinner at the inn; who, after listening to our conversation for a while, looked earnestly at us; and asked, whether it was possible f.r one who had in some measure known “the power of the world to come,” and was “fallen away,” (which she said was her case,) to be “renewed again to repentance.” We besought God in her behalf, and left her sorrowing ; and yet not without hope. Sun. 28.--I preached at seven to a handful of people. The sermon we heard at church was quite innocent of meaning ; what that in the afternoon was, I know not; for I could not hear a single sentence.