Wesley Corpus

But to men of candour, who believe the Bible to be of God, I would say, Is not this an astonishing instance, held forth to all the inhabitants of London, of the justice and power of God? Does not the curse he has denounced upon this ground bear some little resemblance to that of our Lord on the barren figtree, “Henceforth let no fruit grow upon thce for ever?” I see no reason or pretence for any rational man to doubt of the truth of the story; since it has been confirmed by these open, visible tokens for more than a hundred years successively. TIE forty King's Scholars at Westminster-School lodge in one room, which is called the dormitory. While my eldest brother was at school, the head boy cried out vehemently one morning, “Lads, lads! you oversleep yourselves! you lie too late: It is time to be at school.” They all started up, dressed as quick as they could, and ran down with him. When they came into the cloisters, one who was a little before the rest saw something white, and cried out, “What have we got here?” They went up to it, and found a man stark naked, and so benumbed that he could not speak. Just then the clock struck two. They took him up, carried him into the dormitory, and put him into a warm bed After some rest, he recovered his senses and speech; and *=~~~- Wheing asked how he came into that condition, he told them, as he was coming over Chelsea-Fields, he was robbed by two footpads, who then stripped him stark maked, tied him neck and heels, and threw him into a ditch. There he must have perished, but that some young women, coming to market very early in the morning, heard him groan, and, going to the ditch, untied him, and then ran away. He made toward the town as well as he could, till, being unable to walk any farther, he crept into the cloisters upon his hands and feet, where he lay till the King’s Scholars came. Probably in an hour or two he would have expired. After Jhe had slept some hours, they gave him something warm to drink; then one gave him a shirt, another a coat or waist coat, others what they could spare, till they had clothed him from head to foot.