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the largest congregations I had seen in the county. Sunday, 25. I met the children ; the most difficult part of our office. About five in the evening I began preaching at Gwennap, to Sept. 1776.] JOURNAL. 85 full twenty thousand persons. And they were so commodiously placed, in the calm, still evening, that every one heard distinctly. Tues. 27-. About noon I preached in the piazza, adjoining to the Coinage-Hall in Truro. I was enabled to speak exceed- ing plain, on, " Ye are saved through faith." I doubt the Antinomians gnashed on me with their teeth ; but I must declare " thewhole counsel of God." In the evening I preached in anopen space at Mevagissey, to most of the inhabitants of thetown; where I saw avery rare thing,-men swiftly increasing in substance, andyet not decreasing in holiness. Wed. 28. The rain drove us into the House at St. Austle, where I think some of the stout-hearted trembled. The next evening I preached at Medros, and was pleased to see an old friend, with his wife, his two sons and two daughters. I believe God sent a message to their hearts, as they could not help showing by their tears. Sun. SEPTEMBER 1.-I got to Plymouth church a little after the Service began. I admired the seriousness and decency ofthecongregation : None bowed or courtesied, or looked about them. And at the Lord's Supper, although both the Ministers spoke so low in delivering the elements, that none who were not very near could hear aword they said,yetwas the congregation as still as if no one had been in the church. I was likewise agreeably surprised at their number : When I was in the church in Hull, I think we had six communicants, beside those that came with me : Here I suppose were full three hundred. Immediately after Service I went to the quay, and preached on thosewords in the Epistle for the day, " The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." I wondered at the exquisite stupidity of the hearers, particularly the soldiers ; who seemed to understand nomore of the matter than somany oxen. So I told them in very plain terms ; and some of them were ashamed. Mon. 2.-In my way to Exeter, I read over an ingenious