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than before, on, " I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." Afterwards I strongly exhorted them all to rehearse no past grievances ; and only to provoke one another to love and good works. Fri. MAY 1. We wentto Capoquin. The rain preventing my preaching abroad, I accepted of a very large room which was offered me in the barracks. As we went up the street, we had a very numerous retinue, hallooing and shouting with all their might : But the centinel keeping out the mob, we had a quiet congregation within. A Popish gentleman inviting me to lodge at his house, I spent a comfortable evening. Sun. 3.-The House was sufficiently filled with people, as well as with the power ofGod. Monday, 4. So itwas again at five, when I endeavoured to quench the fire which some had laboured to kindle among the poor, quiet people, about separating from the Church. In the evening I preached on Luke viii. 24 ; and the word was as fire ; it pierced to the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. Tuesday, 5. Being not very well in the morning, I desired Joseph Bradford to preach. In the evening I preached on, "Remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works." Many, I believe, are earnestly purposed so to do. MayGod give them the power ! Wednesday, 6. I preached on that remarkable prophecy, Gen. ix. 27, which is so eminently fulfilled at this day, wherein God does " seize the servile progeny of Ham." Thursday, 7. I went to Bandon, and finished the Life of Baron Trenck ; the strangest I ever read. Was there ever such a fiend incarnate as the late King of Prussia ? To inflict such unheard-of tor- ments for so many years, for no fault ! Good had it been for him, if he had never been born. Yet, what a wretch was Trenck himself ! He made not the least scruple of adultery and : 454 REV. J. WESLEY'S [May, 1789. ! murder ; and does not appear to have had a jot more religion than an inhabitant of Otaheite ! I think, therefore, this is a most dangerous book ; Iwishnone that cares for his soulwould read a page of it . In the evening I preached in the new preaching-house, twice