Wesley Corpus

Mon. 15.--I read over Mr. Holmes’s “ Latin Grammar ;” and extracted from it what was needful to perfect our own. Sat. 20.--I found it absolutely necessary, openly and explicitly to warn all that feared God to beware of the German wolves, (falsely called Moravians,) and keep close to the great Shepherd of their souls. ‘ues. 23.--Riding through Holt, I called on the minister, Mr. L--, one of the most zealous adversaries we have in England. I found a° calm, sensible, venerable old man ; and spent above an hour in friendly altercation. Thence I rode to Milkstram, where the number of people obliged me to preach abroad, notwithstanding the keen north wind. And the steady attention of the hearers made amends for the rigour of the season. Wed. 24.--I set out for London. In the mornng, Friday, 26, Mrs. C called upon me. I think it my bounden duty to declare the heads of our conversation :-- “My son,” she said, “declared in my hearing, and before the whole congregation at Tetherton, that when he went to Germany he still judged it would be best for him to live a single life; that the Brethren there said to him one day, ‘ Brother C , it is the will of the Lamb you should marry.’ He replied, ‘I don’t believe it is.? They said, ‘ Yes it is; and that you should marry’ such a person: (naming the sister of J--- H----’s Nov. 1750.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 501 wife.) ' He then said, ‘I like her very well.’ On which they said, ‘No, it is not his will you should marry her; but Jane Briant.’? He answered, ‘1 can’t believe it is.’ So he left them, and walked out in the fields. There he thought, ‘I must be simple; it may be the will of the Lamb.’ So the next day he married her.” She added, “I had four children; but three of them are Jost. They take no more notice of me than if I was dead. John never came to see me all the time I was in London; and when I went to him, two men came and stood by us all the time, to hear every word we said.