Wesley Corpus

May, 1788. ] account of Methodism, particularly insisting on the circum- stances, There is no other religious society under heaven which requires nothing of men in order to their admission into it, but adesire to save their souls. Look all round you, you can- not be admitted into the Church, or society of the Presbyterians, Anabaptists, Quakers, or any others, unless you hold the same opinions with them, and adhere to the same mode of worship. The Methodists alone do not insist onyour holding this or that opinion ; but they think and let think. Neitherdo they impose any particular mode of worship ; but you may continue to worship in your former manner, be itwhat it may. Now, I do not know any other religious society, either ancient or modern, wherein such liberty of conscience is now allowed, or has been allowed, since the age of the Apostles. Here is our glorying ; and a glorying peculiar tous. What society shares it with us ? Mon. 19. I went to Edinburgh, and preached to a much larger congregation thanI used to see here on a week-day. I still find a frankness and openness in the people of Edinburgh, which I find in few other parts of the kingdom. I spent two days among them with much satisfaction ; and I was not at all disap- pointed, in finding no such increase, either in the congregation or the society, as many expected from their leaving the Kirk. Thur. 22. The House at Dalkeith being far too small, even at eight in the morning, to contain the congregation, I preached in a garden, on, " Seek ye the Lord while he may be found : " And from the eager attention of the people, I could not but hope, that some of them would receive the truth in love. In the evening I preached in the House at Dunbar, tolerably well filled, on Job xxii. 2,3 ; I believe with The spirit of convincing speech : But much more, at five in the morning, Friday, 23. Andwill God manifest his power among these dry bones also ? Immedi- ately after preaching we set out. How is the face of this coun- try changed in a few years ! Itwas, twenty years ago, dreary enough ; but is now as a pleasant garden. But what is most