Wesley Corpus

fet it alone. If I go into any company, and there be an opportunity to reprove or exhort, and I come away without using it, I am as much condemned in my own conscience, as if I had robbed them. Pray for me, _ that J may have patience to endure the contradiction of sinners; and that | may always remember, ‘The wrath of man worketh not the right- eousness of God.’ “Sunday, August 4, we met asusual. As soon as we had begun prayer, there came the curate, with alawyer. He stayed tili we had done prayer, and then asked, ‘ What is the intent of your meeting” JI answered, ‘To build each other up in our most holy faith.’ He said,‘ But what method do youuse? Lanswered, ‘ This is the third Sunday that I have met these my brethren. he first Sunday we read the fifth chapter of St. Matthew, and exhorted one another to follow after the holiness and happiness there described. Last Sunday we considered the sixth. And now, if we are not hindered, we shall go on to the seventh.’ He bade us go on, and he would stay a little, and hear us. By the desire of the rest, { read the chapter; which I had scarce done, when the lawyer began a long ha rangue, concerning the danger we were in of running mad. I answered, ‘Sir, as I perceive you have no design to help us, if you will not hinder us, we shall take it as a favour.” He went out directly, and left the curate with us; who began to exhort us not to be over anxious about our salvation, but to divert ourseives a little. I told him, ‘ Sir, we desire whatever we do, to do all to the glory of God.’ ‘What, said he, ‘do you deny all diversions? I said,‘ All which do not agree with that rule.’ He hurried away, and said, as he went, ‘I wish you do not fall into some error.