Wesley Corpus

e. 498. A Providential Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 An Extraordinary Cure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 Murder Prevented by a three-fold Dream . . . . . . . . . . . 502. An Answer to a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503. A Letter to a Friend concerning Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 viii CONTENTS. Thoughts on Nervous Disorders: Particularly that which is usually termed Lowness of Spirits. . . . . . . 515 A Scheme of Self-Examination. Used by the First Methodists in Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Thoughts upon Dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 A Question concerning Dew on Coach-Glasses . . . . . . . . 526 Some Account of an Eminent Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 oCCAsiONED BY [rn 1NTED 1N THE YEAR 1755.] Tua res agitur, paries quum proximus ardet.* THINKING men generally allow that the greater part of amodern Christians are not more virtuous than the ancient Heathems; perhaps less so; since public spirit, love of our country, generous honesty, and simple truth, are scarce any where to be found. On the contrary, covetousness, ambition, various injustice, luxury, and falsehood in every kind, have infected every rank and denomination of people, the Clergy themselves not excepted. Now, they who believe there is a God are apt to believe he is not well pleased with this. Nay, they think, he has intimated it very plainly, in many parts of the Christian world. How many hundred thousand men have been swept away by war, in Europe only, within half a century! How many thousands, within little more than this, hath the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up !