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3. After deeply weighing the matter, I read the following paper before I gave it into his hands :-- “ June 25, 1'751. ** Because you have wrought folly in Israel, grieved the Holy Spirit of God, betrayed your own soul into temptation and sin, and the souls of many others, whom you ought, even at the peril of your own life, to have guarded against all sin; because you have given occasion to the enemies of God, whenever they shall know these things, to blaspheme the ways and truth of God: we can in no wise receive you as a fellow labourer, till we see clear proofs of your real and deep repentance. Of this you have given us no proof yet. You have not so much as named one single person, in all England or Ireland, with whom you have behaved ill, except those we knew before. “The least and lowest proof of such repentance which we can receive, is this:--that till our next conference, (which we hope will be in Octo ber,) you abstain both from preaching, and from practising physic. If you do not, we are clear; we cannot answer for the consequences. “ Joun WESLEY, “CuarLes WESLEY.” 4. Wednesday, 26, I desired him to meet me at Farleywick, with the other women, at eight in the morning. All the five women came, and gave my wife the same account which they had before given to my brother: but Mr. Wh did not come till after they were all gone. 5. On Thursday and Friday my brother and { spared no pains to per- uade him to retire for a season; but it was labour lost. He professed Aug. 1751. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL 519 himself, indeed, and we would fain have thought him, penitent; but I could not find any good proof that he was so. Nay, I saw strong proof that he was not :--1. Because he never owned one tittle but what he knew we could prove. -2. Because he always extenuated what he could not deny. 3. Because he as constantly accused others as excused himself; saying, many had been guilty of little imprudences as wellas he. 4. Be cause, in doing this, he told several palpable untruths, which he well knew so to be.