Wesley Corpus

Bishop ; who has indeed won the hearts of the people in general by his courteous and obliging behaviour. Sun. 22. I heard agood sermon in the church at Carmar- then, (being the Assize sermon,) on, " There is no power but of God." In the evening I preached in the market-place, to, I think, the largest congregation I ever saw in Wales. Thurs- day, 26. On the road I read over Voltaire's Memoirs of himself. Certainly never was amore consummate coxcomb ! But even his character is less horrid than that of his royal hero ! Surely so unnatural a brute never disgraced athrone before ! Cedite, Romani Catamiti ! Cedite, Graii !* A monster that madeit a fixed ruleto let no woman and no Priest enter his palace; thatnot only gloried in the constant practice of Sodomy himself, butmade it free for all his subjects ! What a pity that his father *Ye Catamites among the Greeks and Romans, concede to this wretch the palm of criminality.-EDIT . 288 REV. J. WESLEY'S [Sept. 1781. had not beheaded him in his youth, and saved him from all this sin and shame ! In the evening I preached in the Town-Hall at Cardiff, and showed the scriptural meaningof that much-mistaken word, "A Christian." Friday, 27. I preached at Newport. I hardly know such another place ; the people hear, and hear, and are as much moved as the benches they sit upon. I spoke as strong as I possibly could, on, "Awake, thou that sleepest; " and I judged, from the number who attended at five in the morning, that it was not all lost labour. Sat. 28. Being informed the boat would pass at eight, we hastened to the New-Passage : But we were time enough; for it did not set out till past six in the evening. However, we got into the boat about seven, and before nine reached Bristol. Tues. 31.-Dr. Coke, Mr. Whatcoat, and Mr. Vasey, came down from London, in order to embark for America. Wed. SEPTEMBER 1.-Being now clearinmyownmind, I took a step which I had long weighed inmy mind, and appointed Mr. Whatcoat and Mr. Vasey to go and serve the desolate sheep in America. Thursday, 2. I added to them three more, which, I verily believe, will be much to the glory of God.