Wesley Corpus

and seemed quite ready to receive instruction. But here neither could we procure any post-horses ; so that we were obliged to take a single-horse chaise. The wind, with mizzling rain, came full in our faces ; and we had nothing to screen us from it; so that Iwas throughly chilled from head to foot before I came to Lynn. But I soon forgot this little inconvenience ; for which the earnestness of the congregation made me large amends. Tues. 19. In the evening all the Clergymen in the town, except one who was lame, were present at the preaching. They are all prejudiced in favour ofthe Methodists ; as indeed are most of the townsmen ; who give a fair proof by contributing so much to our Sunday-schools ; so that there is near twenty pounds in hand. Wednesday, 20. I had appointed to preach at Diss ; a town near Scoleton ; but the difficulty was,where I could preach. The Minister was willing I should preach in the church ; but feared offending the Bishop, who, going up to London, was within a few miles of the town. But a gentleman asking the Bishop whether he had any objection to it, was answered, "None at all. " I think this church is one of the largest in this county. I suppose it has not been so filled these hundred years. This evening and the next I preached at Bury, to a deeply attentive congregation, many ofwhom know in whom they have believed. So that here we have not lost all our labour. Friday, 22. We returned to London. Oct. 1790.] 499 Sun. 24. I explained, to a numerous congregation in Spital- fields church, " the whole armour of God." St. Paul's, Shad- well, was still more crowded in the afternoon, while I enforced that important truth, " One thing is needful ;" and I hope many, even then, resolved to choose the better part. In the name of God, Amen. I, JOHN WESLEY, Clerk, some time Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, revoking all others, appoint this to be my last Will and Testament. I give all my books, now on sale, and the copies of them, (only subject to a rent-charge of eighty-five pounds a year, to the widow and children of my brother,) to my faithful friends, JohnHorton, Merchant; George Wolff, Merchant ; and William