Wesley Corpus

April, 1744. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 313 you are a parcel of mad, crazy-headed fellows ;” and, taking him by the shoulder, fairly thrust him to the door. See here what it is which the world accounts madness: the knowing a work of God upon our soul! In the afternoon I walked over to Zennor, and after preaching, settled the infant society. Wed. 11.--Being the public fast, the church at St. Ives was well filled. After reading those strong words, “If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household;” Mr. H. fulfilled them, by vehemently declaiming against the new sect, as enemies of the Church, Jacobites, Papists, and what not! After church, we met, and spent an hour in prayer, not forgetting the poor sinner against his own soul. In the evening I preached at Gwennap. I stood on the wall, in the calm, still evening, with the setting sun behind me, and almost an innumerable multitude before, behind. and on either hand. Many, likewise, sat on the little hills, at some distance from the bulk of the congregation. But they could all hear distinctly, while I read, “ The disciple is not above his master,” and the rest of those comfortable words, which are day by day fulfilled in our ears.