Wesley Corpus

as much as I could do ; for I was in a high fever, though with- out any pain. Aftergiving a short exhortation to the society, I was very glad to lie down. My fever was exactly ofthe same kind with that I had in the north of Ireland. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I was just the same : The whole nervous system was violently agitated. Hence arose the cramp, with little intermission, from the time I lay down in bed till morning : Also a furious, tearing cough, usually recur- ring before each fit ofthe cramp. And yet I had no pain in my back, or head, or limbs, the cramp only excepted. But I had no strength at all, being scarce able to move, and much less to think. In this state I lay till Friday morning, when a violent fit ofthe cramp carriedthe fever quite away. PerceivMay, 1783.1 JOURNAL. ing this, I took chaise without delay, and reached Worcester in the afternoon. Here I overtook Mr. Collins again, who had supplied all my appointments, and with a remarkable blessing to the people. But being much exhausted, I found rest was sweet. Saturday, 22. In the morning I gave a short exhorta- tion, and thenwent on to Birmingham . Sun. 23. Finding still some remains of the fever, with a load and tightness across my breast, and a continual tendency to the cramp, I procured a friend to electrify me thoroughly, both through the legs and the breast, several times in the day. God so blessed this, that I had no more fever or cramp, and no more load or tightness across my breast. In the evening I ventured to preach threequarters of an hour, and found no ill effect at all. Tues. 25. In the afternoon I reached Hilton-Park, about six miles north of Wolverhampton. Here I found my old acquaint- ance, Miss Freeman, (whom I had known almost from a child,) with Sir Philip Gibbes's lady, and his two amiable daughters, in a lovely recess. With these I spent this evening and the next day, both profitably and agreeably. Thur. 27-. I crossed over the country to Hinckley, and preached in the evening, in the neat, elegant preaching-house. So I did, morning and evening, on the three following days, to a serious, well-behaved people.