Wesley Corpus

We all betook ourselves to prayer. His pangs ceased, and both his body and soul were set at liberty.” (Vol. I. p. 190.) If you had pleased, you might have added from the next paragraph, “Returning to J. H., we found his voice was lost, and his body weak as that of an infant. But his soul was in peace, full of love, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.” You subjoin, “This you may desire, for aught I know, to pass as a trifle too.” (Remarks, p. 134.) No; it is so terrible an instance of the judgment of God, (though at length “mercy rejoiced over judgment,”) as ought never to be forgotten by those who fear God, so long as the sun or moon endureth. 7. The account of people falling down in fits you cite as a fifth instance of my enthusiasm; it being “plain,” you say, that I “look upon both the disorders, and the removals of them, to be supernatural.” (Remarks, p. 67.) I answered, “It is not quite plain. I look upon some of these cases as wholly natural; on the rest, as mixed; both the disorders and the removals being partly natural and partly not.” (Page 410.) You reply, “It would have been kind to have let us know your rule, by which you distinguish these.” I will. I distinguish them by the cir cumstances that precede, accompany, and follow. “However, some of these you here allow to be in part supernatural. Mira cles, therefore, are not wholly ceased.” Can you prove they are, by Scripture or reason? You then refer to two or three cases, related in Vol. I. pp. 188, 189. I believe there was a supernatural power on the minds of the persons there men tioned, which occasioned their bodies to be so affected by the natural laws of the vital union. This point, therefore, you have to prove, or here is no enthusiasm; that there was no supernatural power in the case. Hereon you remarked, “You leave no room to doubt that you would have these cases considered as those of the demo niacs in the New Testament, in order, I suppose, to parallel your supposed cures of them, with those highest miracles of Christ and his disciples, the casting out devils.” (Remarks, p.