Wesley Corpus

Tues. 29.--I retired to Mrs. Sparrow’ s, at Lewisham, where also I preached every evening. Saturday, October 3.--I returned to London. In the evening I buried a young man, who had but lately known God; but from that time he had lived much in a little space. His soul was clouded at the beginning of his illness; but the clouds soon vanished away, and he continued in the calm joy of faith, till his spirit returned to God. Fri. 9.--We had a watch-night at the chapel. Being weak in body, I was afraid I could not go through it. But the longer I spoke, the more strength I had: insomuch that at twelve o’clock all my weariness and weakness were gone, and I was as one a “yea ret Ae : my _ Nov. 1747. , REV. J. WESLEY'S JOURNAL. 409 refreshed with wine. The former part of the next week, and of some others, I spent at Newington and Lewisham in writing. Fri. 16.--Ii went with two or three friends, to see what are called the electrical experiments. How much these also confound those poor half thinkers, who will believe nothing but what they can comprehend ? Who can comprehend, how fire lives in water, and passes through it more freely than through air? How flame issues out of my finger, real flame, such as sets fire to spirits of wine ?, How these, and many more as strange phenomena, arise from the turning round a glass globe? It is all mystery: if haply by any means God may hide pride from man! Tues. 20.--I read Dr. Doddridge’s “ Account of Colonel Gardiner.” And what matters it, whether his soul was set at liberty by a fever, or a Lochaber axe, seeing he is gone to God? Thursday, 29.--T. C., who had been with the Brethren some years, desired to speak with me. He said, he could find no rest any where else, and was constrained to return where he was first called. I believe he obeyed that conviction for amonth. ‘ Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.”