Wesley Corpus

Sun. June 9.--In the evening I rode to Colebrook, on Monday to Marlborough, and on Tuesday to Bristol. The Antinomians had taken true pains here also, to seduce those who were showing their faith by their works. But they had reaped little fruit of their bad labour. For, upon the most diligent inquiry, I could not find that seven persons out of seven hundred had been turned out of the old Bible way. We left Bristol early on Friday, 14, and on Sunday morning reached St. Gennis. The church was moderately filled with serious hearers, but few of them appeared to feel what they heard. I preached both morning and afternoon, and on Monday evening ; and many assented to and approved of the truth. Tues. 18.--Being invited by the rector of St. Mary Week, (about seven miles from St. Gennis,) to preach in his church, we went thither in the afternoon. I had not seen in these parts of Cornwall, either so large a church or so large a congregation. Thence we rode to Laneast, where Mr. Bennet read prayers, and I preached on “ the redemption that isin Jesus Christ.” Wed. 19.--Tresmere church was filled within and without, while I preached on Rom. iv, 7. Here I took leuve of a poor, mad, original enthusiast, who had been scattering abroad lies in every quarter. In the evening Mr. Thompson and Shepherd rode with me to St. Eath, and the next day to Redruth. Being informed here of what had befallen Mr. Maxfield, we turned aside toward Crowan church town. But in the way, we received information, that he had been removed from thence the night before. It seems, the valiant constables who guarded hin, having received timely notice that a body of five hundred Methodists were coming to take him o_ | oe 338 REY. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [June, 1745 away by force, had, with great precipitation, carried him two miles further, to the house of one Henry Tomkins.