Wesley Corpus

Fri. 14.--I performed the last office (according to his desire) over his body, which was interred in the presence of a vast multitude of people, at a small distance from that of Elizabeth Marsh. Sun. 16.-- I buried near the same place, one who had soon finished her course, going to God in the full assurance of faith, when she was little more than four years old. In her last sickness, (having been deeply serious in her behaviour for several months before,) she spent all the intervals of her convulsions in speaking of, or to, God. And when she perceived her strength to be near exhausted, she desired all the family to come near, © and prayed for them all, one by one ; then for her ministers, for the Church, and for all the world. A short time after, recovering from a fit, she lifted up her eyes, said, “ Thy kingdom come,” and died. All this summer, our brethren in the west had as hot service as those in the north of England; the war against the Methodists, so called, being every where carried. on with far more vigour than that against the Spaniards. I had accounts of this from all parts; one of which was as follows :--- “ Rev. Sirn,--The word of God has free course here; it runs and is glorificd: but the devil rages horribly. Even at St. Ives, we cannot shut the doors of John Nance’s house, to meet the society, but the mob immediately threaten to break them open. ‘They now triumph over us more and more, saying, it is plain, nothing can be done against them. And in other places it is worse. I was going to Crowan on Tuesday was se’nnight. On the road two of our brothers met me. When we came within a mile of the house, we saw a great mob at some distance; but they were going another way. We then left our horses at the house of a friend, and went forward on foot. Within a quarter of a mile of the place where I was to Oct. 1744. ] REV. J.| WESLEY’S JOURNAL. Abas