Wesley Corpus

Wednesday, 29. I rode to Witney, and found more life than I expected, both in the congregation and the society. Thursday, 20. I preached at Wattleton, at the front of Mr. Stonehill's house. The whole congregation was seriously attentive. In the evening I preached at High-Wycomb, to many more than the Room would contain ; and I believe not in vain. I preached in Chesham, and on Saturday returned to London. I set out for Northamptonshire, and received a particular account of one that eminently adorned the Gospel :- " 1. SUSANNAH SPENCER was born at Whittlebury, in the year 1742. When she was young she contracted a very general acquaintance, and was exceedingly beloved by them, having an agreeable person, a good understanding, and much sweetness of temper; and, being modest and decent in her whole behaviour, she seemed, like others, to think she had religion enough. " 2. In 1760, Thomas Grover came down, and preached several times at Whittlebury and at Towcester. She went to hear him, but with a fixed resolution, ' not to be catched,' as she called it ; but her resolution was vain. In a sermon she heard at Towcester, she was cut to the heart. Her convictions grew deeper and deeper from that time, for about a year. She was then hearing him preach, but felt her heart as hard as the nether millstone. Yet at the love-feast which followed, it was suddenly broke in pieces, and she was all melted into tears, by 32 Oct. 1774. those words applied to her inmost soul, in an inexpressible manner,- MyGod is reconciled, His pardoning voice I hear ! He owns me for his child ; I canno longer fear. " 3. The day following, being exercised with strong tempta- tion, she gave up her confidence; but the next night, wrestling withGod in prayer, she received it againwith double evidence : And though afterwards she frequently felt some doubts, yet it never continued long ; but she had, in general, a clear, abiding sense of the pardoning love ofGod. "4. From that time she walked steadily and closely with God, and was a pattern to all around her. She was particularly exact in reproving sin, and lost no opportunity ofdoing it. In her whole conversation she was remarkably lively, and yet gentle