Wesley Corpus

Sat. 24.---I buried the body of William Turner; who, toward the close of a long illness, had been removed into Guy’s Hospital, though with small hope of recovery. The night before his death he was delirious, and talked loud and incoherently, which occasioned many in the ward to gather round his bed, in order to divert themselves. But in that hour it pleased God to restore him at once to the full use of his understanding; and he began praising God and exhorting them to repent, so as to pierce many to the heart. He remained for some time in this last Ee of love, and then gave up his soul to God. Journal I.-- 446 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [ March, 1749. Tues. 277.--Mr. Glanville died. He was at the burial of Francis, Butts, and was then saying, ‘“ What a mercy it is that I am alive! That I was not cut off a year ago!” The same night he was taken ill, and was for the most part delirious. In his lucid intervals he seemed intent on the things of God. I saw him not till the night before his death: he answered me sensibly once or twice, saying, he hoped te meet me in a better place: then he raved again; so I used a : hort prayer, and commended his spirit to God. Mon. January 2, 1749.--I had designed to set out with a friend for Rotterdam ; but being much pressed to answer Dr. Middleton’s book against the Fathers, I postponed my voyage, and spent almost twenty days in that unpleasing employment. Sat. 28.--I looked over the celebrated Tract of Mr. Daillé, “On the right Use of the Fathers.” I soon saw what occasion that good man had given to the enemies of God to blaspheme ; end that Dr. Middleton, in particular, had largely used that work in order to overthrow the whole Christian system.