Wesley Corpus

Henry Wickham, one of His Majesty's Justices of Peace for the West-riding of Yorkshire, writes an order * To the Constable of Keighley, commanding him, “to convey the body of Jonathan Reeves” (whose real crime is, the calling sinners to repentance) “to His Majesty’s gaol and castle of York; suspected,” said the precept, “ of being a spy among us, and a dangerous man to the person and government of His Majesty King George.” God avert the omen I I fear this is no presage either of the repentance or deliverance of our poor nation 18. If we will not turn and repent, if we will harden our hearts, and acknowledge neither his judgments nor mercies; what remains, but the fulfilling of that dreadful word, which God spake by the Prophet Ezekiel: “Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch forth my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof--Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls. Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land:--Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood:--Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.” (xiv. 13, 14, 17, 19, 20.) “Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant, that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters.--And ye shall be com forted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem. -And ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.” (Verses 22, 23.) LoNDoN, December 18, 1745. op vicAR of shorkHAM, IN KENT Written in the year 1748 1. SoME time since, you desired an account of the whole economy of the people commonly called Methodists. And you received a true, (as far as it went,) but not a full, account. To supply what I think was wanting in that, I send you this ac count, that you may know, not only their practice on every head, but likewise the reasons whereon it is grounded, the occasion of every step they have taken, and the advantages reaped thereby. 2.