Wesley Corpus

in his own house. Afterwards he exhorted them a little, and then formed a little society. Some time after, he begged one of our Preachers to come over and help them. I now found a lively society, and one of the most elegant congregations I had seen formanyyears. Yet theyseemed as willing to be instructed, 296 REV. J. WESLEY'S [Feb. 1785. as if they had lived in Kingswood. Wednesday, 19. I returned to Colchester ; and on Thursday, 20, preached to a lovely con- gregation at Purfleet, and the next morning returned to London. Sun. 23. I preached morning and afternoon at West-Street, and in the evening in the chapel at Knightsbridge : I think, it will be the last time ; for I know not that I have ever seen a worse-behaved congregation. Tues. 25. I spent two or three hours in the House of Lords. I had frequently heard that this was the most venerable assem- bly in England. But how was I disappointed ! What is a Lord, but a sinner, born to die ! Sun. 30. From those words, " Righteous art thou, O Lord, and true are thy judgments," I endeavoured to point out those sins which were the chief cause of that awful trans- action we commemorate this day. I believe the chief sin which brought the King to the block, was his persecuting the real Christians. Hereby he drove them into the hands ofdesigning men, which issued in his own destruction. Sun. FEBRUARY 6.-Wehad alove-feast. I could not but observe the manner wherein several of them spoke one after ! another. Not only the matter, but the language, the accent, the tone of voice, wherewith illiterate persons, men and women, young and old, spoke, were such as a scholar need not be ashamed of. Who teacheth like Him ? : Sun. 13.-I met the single women, and exhorted them to consider, to prize, and to improve, the advantages they enjoyed. On the following days, I visited many of our poor, to see with my own eyes what their wants were, and how they might be effectually relieved. Sun. 20.-I preached in Spitalfields church in the morning, and in the afternoon at St. Ethelburg's, and in the evening at the new chapel. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I visited the residue of the sick and poor. Friday, 25. I received