Wesley Corpus

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. They then collected for him among themselves about forty shillings, and wished him well home. See the wisdom of God, making the sport of a boy the smeans of saving a poor man’s life! Bishop HALL, speaking of the good offices which angels ‘do to God’s servants, says, “Of this kind was that marvellous cure which was wrought upon a poor cripple, at St. Madern's in Cornwall; whereof, besides the attestation of many hundreds of the neighbours, I took a strict examination in my last visitation: This man, for sixteen years together, was obliged to walk upon his hands, by reason the sinews of his legs were so contracted. Upon an admonition in his dream, to wash in a certain well, he was suddenly so restored to his limbs that I saw him able to walk and get his own mainte mance. The name of this cripple was John Trebble.” And were “many hundreds of the neighbours,” together with Bishop Hall, deceived in so notorious a matter of fact? or did they all join together to palm such a falsehood on the world? O incredulity what ridiculous shifts art thou driven to ! what absurdities wilt thou not believe, rather than own any extraordinary work of God! MoNDAY, April 2, 1781, I was informed by a person in an eminent station, of a very uncommon incident: He had occasion to correct, with a few stripes, a lad that lived with him at Rochester, which he resented so as to keave his place. But sometime after, he seemed to repent, humbled himself, and was received again. He now behaved in a most becoming manner, and was doubly diligent in his service. But his mistress dreamed one night, that this lad was going to cut her throat: And she had a twin-sister, between whom and her there is so strange a sympathy, that if either of them is ill, or particularly affected at any time, the other is so likewise. This sister wrote to her from another part of the kingdom, that she had dreamed the very same thing.