Wesley Corpus

Sun. 27.--I received a message from Mr. Ridley, that he would communicate my proposal to the general, and return me his answer as soon as possible. Mon. 28.--I rode to Biddick, where the first are become last. I preached on, “ Will ye also go away ?”” Many appeared to be cut to the heart; but it is well if these convictions, also, do not pass away as the morning cloud. Nov. 1745. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 355 Tues. 29.--A young gentleman called upon me, whose father is an eminent minister in Scotland, and was in union with Mr. Glass, till Mr. Glass renounced him, because they did not agree as to the eating of blood. (Although I wonder any should disagree about this, who have read the fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and considered, that no Christian in the universe did eat it till the Pope repealed the law which had remained at least ever since Noah’s flood.) Are not these things in Scotland also for our instruction? How often are we warned, not to fall out by the way! O that we may never make any thing, more on less, the term of union with us, but the having the mind which was in Christ, and the walking as he walked! Thur. 31.--At ten I preached on the Town Moor, at a small distance from the English camp, (the Germans lying by themselves,) on, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!” None attempted to make the least disturbance, from the beginning to the end. Yet I could not reach their hearts. ‘The words of a scholar did not affect them, like those of a dragoon or a grenadier.