Wesley Corpus

** All I can do for his majesty, whom I honour and love,--I think not less than I did my own father,--is this, I cry unto God, day by day, in public and in private, to put all his enemies to confusion: and I exhort all that hear me to do the same; and, in their several stations, to exert themselves as loyal subjects; who, so long as they fear God, cannot but honour the king. “Permit me, sir, to add a few words more, out of the fulness of my heart. Iam persuaded you fear God, and have a deep sense that his kingdom ruleth over.all. Unto whom, then, (I may ask you,) should we flee for succour, but unto Him whom, by our sins, we have justly displeased? O, sir, is it not possible to give any check to these overflowings of ungodliness? To the open, flagrant wickedness, the drunkenness and profaneness, which so abound, even in our streets? I just take leave to suggest this. May the God whom you serve direct you in this, and all things! This is the daily prayer of, sir, * Your obedient servant, for Christ’s sake, coy a WVices Sun. 22.--The walls were mounted with cannon, and all things prepared for sustaining an assault. Mean time our poor neighbours, on either hand, were busy in removing their goods. And most of the best houses in our street were left without either furniture or inhabitants. Those within the walls were almost equally busy in carrying away their money and goods ; and more and more of the gentry every hour rode southward as fast as they could. At eight I preached at Gateshead, in a broad part of the street, near the Popish chapel, on the wisdom of God in governing the world. How do all things tend to the furtherance of the Gospel! I never saw before so well behaved a congregation in 352 REV. Je WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [ Oct. 1745 . any church at Newcastle, as was that at St. Andrew’s this morning The place appeared as indeed the house of God; and the sermon Mr Ellison preached was strong and weighty, which he could scarce conclude for tears.