Wesley Corpus

This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com Mason Third Edition. 1829. [Entered at Stationers' Wall.] { : Mon. SEPTEMBER 13.-My cold remaining, I was ill able to speak. In the evening Iwas muchworse,mypalate and throat being greatly inflamed. However, I preached as I could ; but I could then go no farther. I could swallow neither liquids nor solids, and the windpipe seemed nearly closed. I lay down at myusual time, but the defluxion of rheum was so uninterrupted, that I slept not a minute till near three in the morning. On the following nine days I grew better. Friday, 17. I went to Kingswood, and found several of the children still alive to God. Sat. 18. I gave them a short exhortation, which tired but did not hurt me. Sun. 19. I thought myselfable to speak to the congregation, which I did for half an hour ; but afterwards I found a pain in my left side and inmy shoulder by turns, exactly as I did at Canterbury twenty years before. In the morning I could scarce liftmyhand tomyhead ; but, after being electrified, I was much better; so that I preached with tolerable ease in the evening ; and the next evening read the letters, though myvoicewas weak. From this time I slowly recovered my voice and my strength, and on Sunday preached without any trouble. Wed. 29. After preaching at Pensford, I went to Publow, and in the morning spent a little time with the lovely children. Those ofthem who were lately affected, did not appear tohave lost anything of what they had received; and some of them were clearly gaining ground, and advancing in the faith which works by love. Sunday, OCTOBER 3. I took a solemn leave of the society at Bristol, now consisting of eight hundred members. Mon. 4.-I went, by Shepton-Mallet, to Shaftesbury, and on Tuesday to Salisbury. Wednesday, 7. Taking chaise at two in the morning, in the evening I came well to London. The rest of the week I made what inquiry I could into the state of my accounts. Some confusion had arisen from the sudden 4 REV. J. WESLEY'S [Nov. 1773. death ofmybook-keeper ; but itwas less than might have been expected.