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B.’s door. There I received some blows, lost part of my clothes, and was covered over with dirt: here, although the hands o1 perhaps some hundreds of people were lifted up to strike or throw, yet they were one and all stopped in the mid-way; so that not a man touched me with one of his fingers ; neither was any thing thrown from first to last ; so that I had not even a speck of dirt on my clothes. Who can deny that God heareth the prayer, or that he hath all power in heaven and earth ? I took boat at about half an hour past five. Many of the mob waited at the end of the town, who, seeing me escaped out of their hands, : could only revenge themselves with their tongues. But a few of the fiercest ran along the shore, to receive me at my landing. I walked up the steep narrow passage from the sea, at the top of which the foremost man stood. I looked him in the face, and said, “I wish you a good night.” He spake not, nor moved hand or foot till I was on horseback. Then he said, “I wish you was in hell,” and turned back to his companions. As soon as I came within sight of Tolcarn, (in Wendron parish,) where I was to preach in the evening, I was met by many, running as it were for their lives, and begging me to go no further. I asked, “Why not?” They said, “ The churchwardens and constables, and all the heads of the parish, are waiting for you at the top of the hill, and are resolved to have you : they have a special warrant from the justices met at Helstone, who will stay there till you are brought.” I rode directly up the hill, and observing four or five horsemen, well dressed, went straight to them, and said, “ Gentlemen, has any of you any thing a July, 1745. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 343