Wesley Corpus

“T thought to have spent all my life in his house at Betherton; and so I sent all my goods thither to furnish the house, to the value of thirty o. forty pounds; but as soon as John was gone to Germany, Mr. H--, one of their preachers, came and told me, he had taken the house, (which was a lie,) and I must go out of that room. It was the last week in January. I asked, where I must go. He said, I might go where I would; but I should not stay there. So I went out; and between crying and the cold, (for there was no fire-place where I now was,) in three days I was stone blind. “Some time after I told P S----, I wanted my goods. He said, I should not have them. I said, the: I would fetch a warrant. But at last John gave me ten pounds; and that, I find, is all Iam to have.” ’ Fri. November 2.--I began taking an account of all in the society: that were in want: but I was soon discouraged; their numbers so increasing upon me, particularly about Moorfields, that I saw no possibility of relieving them all, unless the Lord should, as it were, make windows in heaven. Sat. 1'7.--I made an end of that very odd tract, «A Creed founded on Common Sense.” The main of it I admire as very ingenious; but still I cannot believe, either, 1. That the Ten Commandments were not designed for a complete rule of life and manners; or, 2. That the Old Testament was never understood till 17700 years after Christ. Mon. 19.--I met with an uncommon instance of distress. A poor woman, whose husband was at sea, as she was stepping out of her own door, saw a man whipped along the street. Being seven months gone with child, she went up stairs and fell in labour immediately. Having none to help her, there she remained, till she was constrained to rise, and .go down for some food. This immediately threw her into a high fever. A young woman calling there, by mere accident, as it is termed, found her and the child just alive, gave her all the money she had, (which was between eight and nine shillings,) and from that time duly attended her every day.