Wesley Corpus

What a truly Christian piety and simplicity breathe in these lines ! And yet this very man, when I was at Savannah, did I refuse to admit to the Lord’s table, because he was not baptized ; that is, not baptized by a minister who had been episcopally ordained. Can any one carry High Church zeal higher than this? And how well have I been since beaten with mine own staff! ‘The Hernhuters, as he terms them, now published the following in the Daily Post :-- “ To the Author of the Daily Post. “ Srr,--Whosoever reckons that those persons in England who are usually called Moravians, and those who are called Methodists, are the same, he is mistaken. That they are not the same people is manifest enough out of the Declaration of Louis, late bishop and trustee of the Brethren’s church, dated at London, March, 1743; which I here send you, as I find it printed in a collection of original papers of the Brethren, printed at Bidingen, called the ‘ Biidingen Samlung,’ vol. ili, page 852.” The Methodists, so called, heartily thank Brother Louis for his Declaration; as they count it no honour to be in any connection either with him or his Brethren. But why is he ashamed of his name? The Count’s name is Ludwig, not Louis; no more than mine is Jean or Giovanni. Sun. October 1.--I preached at the Gins about eight, to the usual congregation ; and surely God was in the midst of them, breaking the it e peel Sea Oct. 1749. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 467 hearts of stone. I was greatly comforted at church, not only from the Lessons, both morning and afternoon, and in the Lord’s Supper, but even in the psalms which were sung both at Morning and Evening service. At two I explained to an earnest congregation, at Hensingham, the “ redemption that is in Jesus Christ ;”’_and at five exhorted a large multitude at Whitehaven, with strong and pressing words, to examine whether they had sufficient grounds for calling either themselves or their neighbours Christians. g