Wesley Corpus

Sun. 12.--Many complaints were made to me of a general deadness among the people of London, at the very time that those in most other parts of England were so remarkably alive to God. It was chiefly owing to a few persons who were continually labouring to spread offences among them. But it was not long before the plague was stayed: some of these incendiaries separating from us; others being convinced that they had been doing the work of the devil, in the name of the Lord. Thur. 16.--I buried the remains of Martha Somerset, late a mother in Israel: one who never left her first love, never abated in zeal, never was weary of well doing, from the hour she first found redemption in Christ, till her spirit returned to God. Mon. 20.--I rode to Mr. Perronet’s, at Shoreham, that I might be at leisure to write. Sat. December 2.--After preaching in the morning, I rode to Bexley, and preached about eleven. At three in the afternoon I began at Deptford, and found a more than ordinary blessing : but a still greater at Snowsfields, where it seemed as if all would just then *“ know the Lord, from the least even to the greatest.” Sun. 3.--I preached, as usual, at five, at ten, and at five in the evening ; besides meeting the leaders, the bands, the preachers, and our own family. But I felt no faintness or weariness either of body or mind. Blessed be my strong Helper!