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 Number XIII. 
 
 Monday, May 27, 176,5, 
 
 T Took my leave of Londonderry. Mr. Knox 
 fent his fervant to condudi me to Sligo, being 
 now as affeftionate as Mr. K, of Sligo was the 
 
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 firfl time I was there. Keeping a fleady pace, 
 we rode fifteen miles, fo called, in four hours 
 and an half, and came at noon to Ballimafay. 
 Here we were fhewn into a room, where lay a 
 young man, brought near death by a vomiting of 
 blood. Perhaps we were brought into this room, 
 at this time, to fave a poor man’s life. As we 
 were riding through the mountains in the after- 
 noon, we overtook one who was jull come from 
 Derry, and had heard me preach all the time I 
 was there, both in the evening and the morn- 
 ing. I talked plainly both to her and her 
 hufband, and they exprefTed all poffible thank- 
 fulnefs. 
 
 At five we reached Donnegal, the county 
 town. What a wonderful fet of county towns are 
 in this kingdom! Donnegal, and five more, 
 would not altogether make up fuch a town as 
 Iflingtom, Some have twenty houfes in them, 
 Mayo three, and Letrim, T think, not one. Is not 
 this owing in part to the ficklenefs of the nation, 
 who feldom like any thing long, and fo are 
 continually feeking new habitations, as well 
 as new fafhions, and new tiifles of every 
 kind ? 
 
 Tuefday 28. We breakfafled at Bellifhannon, 
 I believe tie largefi and pleafantefl town 
 in the county. Beyond it, a good-natured 
 man overtook me, with whom I talked largely 
 and clofely. Pie feemed much affefted ; if it 
 
 continues, 
 
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 continues, well : if not, I am clear ol his 
 blood. 
 
 About twelve we flopped at a little houfe. But 
 a cloud of fmoke foon drove us out of the firft 
 room, into another where the landlord lay, with 
 a grievoully bruifed and {welled leg. I directed 
 him how to cure it, and thence took occafion to 
 give him fome farther advice. Several eagerly 
 lillened as well as himfelf. Perhaps lotne will re- 
 member it. 
 
 In the evening I took my ufual {land in the 
 market-houfe at Sligo. But here how was the 
 fcene changed ! 1 have feen nothing like this 
 fince my entranceinto the kingdom. Such a total 
 want of good fenfe, of good manners, yea, of com- 
 mon decency, was fhewn by notafew of the hear- 
 ers! It is good to vifit Sligo after Londonderry : 
 honour and difhonour balance each other. Have 
 we done nothing here yet ? Then it is high time 
 to begin, and trv if fomething can be done now.- 
 In the two following days I fpoke as ftiongly as I 
 could : and my labour was not in vain. The 
 congregation increafed very confiderably, and 
 appeared to be of another fpirit. They behaved 
 better the fecond night than the firft, and far 
 better the third night than the fecond. Many of 
 them, I believe, had a frefh call from God: and 
 at the meeting of the fociety he was eminently 
 prefent. So that notwithftanding their decay, I 
 could not but hope there would be a blejfing in 
 the remnant , 
 
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 I ex- 
 
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 I expected one to meet me at Sligo : but none 
 appearing, I let out alone at five in the morning, 
 June x, purpofing to ride the new road to Caf- 
 tle-barr. But on fecond thoughts I rode firait on 
 to Foxford. At the entrance of the town I met 
 three gentlewomen, one of them turned and 
 cried out, “ Is not that Mr. Wefley ?” I thought 
 it odd, but rode on. At the other end of the town 
 a gentleman met me, and taking hoid of my bri- 
 dle, faid, “ Sir, I mult beg you to turn back, and 
 dine with me at the barracks. There is a lady 
 whom you know, and who will be very glad to 
 fee you.” I went back, and found one whom I 
 had wilhed to fee, more than moff perfons in the 
 nation, hut fcarce ever expended' to fee her more? 
 
 It was Mifs B n of Sligo. And I found 
 
 Mrs. S n (now a widow) juft the fame ami- 
 able woman that- Mifs B n was. I fpent an 
 
 hour or two in clofe, ferious converfation, admir- 
 ing the good providence of God 1 So I could not 
 go the new road, which miftes Foxford, becaufe 
 God had work for me to do there. 
 
 About feven I preached at Caflle barr, on The 
 excellency oj the knowledge of Jcfus Chrijl. I found 
 another kind of people here than at Sligo, and 
 was much retrefhed 3mong them. Sunday 2 . 
 Moft of the gentry in the town being at the court- 
 houfe in the evening, my text was, We. preach 
 Chrifl crucified, to the Jews a fiumbling-block, and to 
 the Greeks foolijhnefs . I know not that ever I fpake 
 
 more 
 
more plain, though I fuppofed many would be 
 offended. But I was miffaken : high and low 
 feemed to approve. Some, I hope, profited. 
 
 Monday 3. I rode to Newport, and preached 
 at one, to the largeft congregation 1 remember to 
 have feen there. And on Tuefday evening I took 
 a folemn leave of the congregation at Caftle- 
 barr. 
 
 Wednefday 5. At five I took horfe with a 
 friend who undertook to bear me company to 
 Galway. We faced the fun all the day ; but 
 light clouds and a fmall breeze made the heat 
 tolerable. After refting an hour at Hollymount, 
 (where the gardens, water-works, and once lovely 
 walks, fwiftly running to ruin, give a ftriking 
 proof that the fajhion of this world pajfeth away) 
 we rode on to Mr. Lambert’s near Headford, (a 
 plain, open, hofpitable man) and thence to Gal- 
 tvay, one of the largeft towns I have feen fince I 
 left Glafgow. Our room being fmall, fome of 
 our well-meaning friends were earneft for my 
 preaching in the Exchange. Becaufe I would 
 not difoblige them, I began at feven ; and was 
 buffered to go on for a full quarter of an hour ! 
 The beafls of the people (juft as I expefted) then 
 roaring louder and louder, I walked through 
 them without any hindrance or affront, and re- 
 turned quietly to my lodgings. A large retinue 
 attended me to the door ; but it was only to 
 gape and ftare : none taking the pains either 
 A 4 to 
 
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 to lift up an hand, or to fay any thing bad or 
 good. 
 
 1 hurfday 6. I was brought on my way by 
 Lieutenant Cook, who was in all the aftions at 
 Fort- William- Henry, at Louifbourg, Quebec, 
 Martinico, and the Havannah, and gave a more 
 diflinfit account of thofe eminent fcenes of Pro- 
 vidence than ever I heard before. Although he 
 was fo often in the front of the battle, both againft 
 Indians, French and Spaniards, and in the hotted: 
 fire, both advancing and retreating, he never re- 
 ceived one wound. So true is the odd faying of 
 King William, that “ every bullet has its billet.” 
 Between five and fix we reached Ennis, after a 
 warm day, which much exhaufled my flrength. 
 But it u r as foon repaired : and the ferious, well- 
 behaved congregation (though many of them 
 were people of fortune) mide amends for the 
 turbulent one at Galway. Such is the chequer- 
 work of life ! 
 
 Friday 7. I relied at Ennis; and it was well I 
 did : for even in the houfe the heat was fcarce 
 fupportable. Saturday 8. I rode to Limerick, and 
 found the preaching-houfe juft fimfhed. I liked 
 it the befl of any in the kingdom, being neat, 
 yea elegant, yet not gaudy. Sunday 9. In the 
 evening I preached at Mardyke. The heat w'as 
 violent, even at fix ; neverthelefs there was a 
 numerous congregation, both of protelfants and 
 pap i its. Some of the latter behaved with re- 
 markable indecency, talking and laughing, as at 
 
 a play. 
 
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 a play. I turned and reproved them. They 
 took it well, and neither laughed nor talked any 
 more. 
 
 In the following week I fpoke to each mem- 
 ber of the fociety, and had much fatisfaftion 
 among them. Concerning feveral of them, there 
 is all reafonable proof, that they have given God 
 all their heart. Many others are groaning after 
 full falvation, and all the reft are free from out- 
 ward blame. Why may not every Chriftian com- 
 munity come as far as this ? 
 
 Wednefday 12. In the evening I preached 
 near Mardyke, on a fmooth, grafly place, to, I 
 think, the largeft congregation which I ever faw 
 in Limerick. A folemn awe feemed to fit on 
 every face, while 1 declared in ftrong words, He 
 died for all , that they who live jhould not henceforth 
 live unto themflves , but unto him. The next 
 day the rain began, fo that all the follow- 
 ing days I was conflrained to preach in the 
 houfe. 
 
 Friday 14. About noon I preached at Ballyga- 
 rane, to the fmall remains of the poor Palatines. 
 As they could not get food and raiment here, 
 with all their diligence and frugality, part are 
 fcattered up and down the kingdom, and part 
 gone to America. I ftand amazed ! Have land- 
 lords no common fenfe, (whether they have com- 
 mon humanity or no) that they will fuffer fitch 
 tenants as thefe to be farved away from them ? 
 In the evening I preached at Newmarket, to a 
 A 5 larger, 
 
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 larger congregation of Papifls, as well as Protef- 
 tants, both in the evening and morning, than I 
 remember to have feen there before. For the 
 prefent, many were full of good refolutions: and 
 Why Jhould ye revolt any more ? 
 
 Sunday 16, was a fabbath indeed. Both in the 
 morning and afternoon, many were filled with 
 confolation. Few were abfent at five, Monday 
 17, when I chearfully recommended them to the 
 grace of God. 
 
 Two or three of them were defirous to bear me 
 company, for a day’s journey. Before noon we 
 were met by a violent fhower, which drove us 
 into a little cabin, where were a company of 
 children, with their mother, grandmother, and 
 great-grandmother. They feemed much frighted; 
 blit one of our company, who fpoke Irifh, foon 
 took away their fears. We then fang an hymn, 
 and went to prayer. They gaped and flared abun- 
 dantly: and when we went away, after giving 
 them a fmall piece of money, followed us with a 
 thoufand bleffing?. 
 
 At feven I preached in the roarket-houfe at 
 Killfinnan. Well nigh all the town, Irifh, Eng- 
 Lifh, and Germans, Proteflants and Papifls, pre- 
 fently gathered together. At firfl, mofl of the 
 papifls flood aloof ; and fo did feveral of the 
 genteeler people; but by degrees they drew in, 
 and mixed with the congregation. And I believe 
 all of them felt, that God was there. 
 
 When 
 
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 When I went to my lodging, they crouded af- 
 ter me, fo that the houfe was quickly filled. 
 I exhorted and prayed again, till I found it 
 was full time both for them and me to go to 
 reft. 
 
 * To-day I received from Prudence Nixon 
 herfelf the ftrange account of her late hufband. 
 In November laft, on a Sunday evening, he was 
 uncommonly fervent in prayer, and found fuch 
 a delire as he never had before, to depart , and to 
 be with Chrifl. In the night fhe awaked, and 
 found him quite ftiff, and without either fenfe or 
 motion. Suppofing him to be either dying or 
 dead, fhe broke out into a vehement agony of 
 prayer, and cried for half an hour together, 
 “ Lord Jefus! Give me George! Take him not 
 away.” Soon after he opened his eyes, and faid 
 earneftly, “ You had better have let me go.” 
 Prefently he was raving mad, and began to curfe 
 and blafpheme in the mofl horrid manner. Tins' 
 he continued to do for feveral days, appearing to 
 be under the full power of an unclean fpirit. At 
 the latter end of the week, fhe cried out, “ Lord, 
 I am willing! I am willing he fhould go to thee.” 
 Quickly his underftanding returned, and he again 
 rejoiced with joy unfpeakable. He tenderly 
 thanked her for giving him up to God, kiffed 
 her, lay down and died. 
 
 Tuefday 18. The town feemed to be all alive 
 a little after four o’clock. So finding the congre~ 
 A 6 gation 
 
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 gation ready, I began a little before five. A cry 
 foon arofe of young and old, on the right hand 
 and on the left. But in many, it was not fo much 
 the voice of forrow, as of joy and triumph. A 
 fair beginning this ! But who can tell what the 
 end will be ? 
 
 About nine we rode through Doneraile, one of 
 the pleafanteft towns in the kingdom. But a 
 man came galloping after us, and faid, “ All the 
 town begs you will Hop, and give them a fermon.” 
 
 I turned back, and took my fland in the main 
 flreet. Men, women and children flocked from 
 all fides. There was no dilturbance of any kind, 
 while I declared the grace of our Lord Jefus 
 Chrif. Fair bioffoms again! And who knows 
 but fome of thefe may bring forth fruit unto per- 
 feflion ? 
 
 In the evening I came to Cork, and at feven 
 was furprized at the unufual largenefs of the 
 congregation. I had often been grieved at the 
 fmalinefs of the congregation here; and it could 
 be no other, while we cooped ourfelves up in the 
 houfe. But now the alarm is founded abroad, 
 people flock from all quarters. So plain it is, 
 that field-preaching is the mofl effeflual way of 
 overturning Satan's kingdom. 
 
 Thuifday 20. At feven in the evening I flood 
 in a vacant place near Blackpool, famous from 
 time immemorial for all manner of wdckednefs, 
 for riot in particular, and cried aloud, Why will 
 ye die, 0 houfe of lfraell Abundance of papifls 
 
 gathered 
 
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 gathered at a diftance ; but they drew nearer 
 and nearer, till nine parts in ten mingled with 
 the congregation, and were all attention. Sure- 
 ly this is the way to fpread religion : to publifh 
 it in the face of the fun. 
 
 Frid. 21. I rode over to Bandon, and preach- 
 ed at feven in the main ftreet. The congrega- 
 tion was exceeding large: fo it was, in propor- 
 tion, at five in the morning. Sunday 23. I 
 preached at eight near the- upper market-houfe. 
 Till now I did not obferve that all I could fay, 
 made any imprefTion upon the hearers. But the 
 power of God was now eminently prefent : and 
 all feemed to be fenfible of it. About five I be- 
 gan in George’s- ftreet at Cork, the oppofite cor- 
 ner of the town from the new room. Many of 
 the chief of the city were of the audience, cler- 
 gy as well as laity. And all but two or three, 
 were not only quiet, but ferious and deeply at- 
 tentive. What a change ! Formerly we could 
 not walk through this ftreet, but at the peril of 
 our lives. 
 
 Monday and Tuefday, I fpoke, one by one, 
 to the members of the fociety. They are now 
 two hundred and ninety-five, fifty or fixty more 
 than they have been for fome years. This is 
 owing, partly to the preaching abroad, partly to 
 the meetings for prayer in feveral parts of the 
 city. Thefe have been the means of awaken- 
 ing many grofs finners, of recovering many back- 
 
 fliders. 
 
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 Aiders, of confirming many that were weak and 
 wavering, and bringing many of all forts to ^the 
 public preaching. Ac ieven I went once more 
 to Blackpool, where the congregation was far 
 larger than before. Abundance of papifts ftole 
 in among them, a very few {landing aloof. O 
 what a day of God’s power is this ! May he fulfil 
 in us all his good pleafure ! 
 
 Friday 28. After giving our brethren a folemn 
 caution, not to love the world , nor the things of 
 the world , I left them with more fatisfadlion than 
 ever, as there is reafon to hope, that they will 
 be toft to and fro no more, but fleadily adorn 
 the doftrine of God our Saviour. 
 
 About feven in the evening, I began in the 
 Exchange atYoughal. Four or five noify men dif- 
 turbed thofe that were near them, till I reprov- 
 ed them fharply. The whole congregation then 
 behaved with the utmoft decency. 
 
 Saturday 29. I preached at five in a room, 
 that would contain four or five hundred people. 
 But the word does not yet fink into their hearts: 
 many are pleafed : but few convinced. In the 
 evening I went to the exchange again. The con- 
 gregation was almoft doubled, whom I exhorted 
 to ajk for the old path, the good way, and to walk 
 therein. Aftewards I met the infant fociety con- 
 fiding of nineteen members : all of whom are 
 full of good defires and fome know in whom 
 they have believed. 
 
 Sunday 30. At eight the congregation was 
 
 both 
 
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 both larger and more affefted than ever. I was 
 glad to fee a large and tolerably ferious congrega- 
 tion in the church. It was once a fpacious build- 
 ing : but more than half of it now (a common 
 thing in Ireland !) lies in ruins. In the evening 
 I preached to a multitude of people in the main 
 ftreet. A few gentry foon walked away : but the 
 bulk of the congregation were deeply attentive. 
 What an harveft is ready for zealous labourers ! 
 When wilt thou thruft them out into thy har- 
 veft ? 
 
 Monday July 1. I rode to Waterford, and 
 preached in a little court, on our Great high 
 Priejl who is pajfed into heaven for us. But I foon 
 found, I was got above mod of my hearers : I 
 fhould have fpoke of death or judgment. On 
 Tuefday evening I fuited my difcourfe to my 
 audience, which was confiderably increafed : but 
 much more the next evening. And deep atten- 
 tion fat on almoft every face. The room was well 
 filled on Thurfday morning, and the poor peo- 
 ple were fo affeftionate, that it was with difficulty 
 we were able to break from them, amidft abund- 
 ance of prayers and bleflings. 
 
 At feven in the evening I preached in the af- 
 fembly room at Killkenny, to many well-dreft, 
 reputable people, fome ofwhom attended again at 
 five in the morning. In the evening the congre- 
 gation was increafed in ferioufnefs as much.as 
 in number, while I enforced thofe awful words, 
 Gcd now commandeth all men , every where to repent. 
 
 I never 
 
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 1 never fpoke plainer. Yet I did not hear of any 
 that were offended. What an alteration is there 
 in this city within fix or eight years ! 
 
 Saturday 6 We rode to Portarlington. At 
 feven I preached in the Market-houfe to a nu- 
 merous congregation. Near as many were prefent 
 at eight in the morning. I had great liberty of 
 fpeech. And the manner wherein they Jujfered 
 the word of exhortation , perfuaded me it would 
 not be in vain. 
 
 We came to Mountmelick before the church 
 began, and were glad to find it was facrament 
 Sunday. In the evening I preached on one fide 
 of the market-place, on our Lord’s lamentation 
 over Jerufalem, to almoft all the Proteftants in 
 the town, and not a few of the Papiits. Tothofe 
 I made a particular application in the conclu- 
 fton of my difcourfe. Indeed I never found fo 
 great a concern for them, as fince I came laft 
 into the kingdom. 
 
 Monday 8. I preached in the market-place 
 once more, and it was a folemn hour. I left 
 many of the people much alive to God, and a- 
 thirft for his whole image. I preached at Tulla- 
 morein the evening. At five in the morning the 
 houfe was near full. While I was preaching on 
 Tuef. evening in the market-place, we had feveral 
 fhowers : but few went away. Here likewife I 
 was conllrained to addrefs myfelfto the Papilfs 
 in particular, and to exhort them, never to reft, 
 till they were partakers of the common falvation. 
 
 About 
 
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 About eleven we were waked with a cry of 
 fire, which was at the next door but one. The 
 flame fhone fo that one might fee to pick up a 
 pin, and the fparks flew on every fide. So that 
 it was much feared, the neighbouring houfes 
 would take fire, as feveral of them were thatch- 
 ed. But the violent rain, which fell an hour 
 before had made the thatch fo wet that it 
 could not catch quickly. And in lefs than two 
 hours all the fire was quenched. So we flept the 
 reft of the night in peace. 
 
 Wednefday 10. 1 preached at Clara about 
 noon, and in the evening at Athlone. The two 
 next evenings I preached in the market- houfe, 
 for the fake of the Papifts, who durft not come 
 to the room. Saturday 13. I read Sir Richard 
 Cox’s biftory of Ireland. I fuppofe it is ac- 
 counted as authentic as any that is extant. But 
 furely never was there the like in the habitable 
 world ! Such a feries of robberies, murders, and 
 burning of houfes, towns and countries, did I 
 never hear or read of before. I do not now 
 wonder, Ireland is thinly inhabited, but that it 
 has any inhabitants at all ! Probably it had been 
 wholly defolate before now, had not the Eng- 
 lifh come, and prevented the implacable 
 wretches from going on, till they had fwept 
 each other from the earth. 
 
 In the afternoon I rode to Aghrim, and 
 preached about feven to a deeply ferious con- 
 gregation, mofl of whom were prefent again at 
 
 eight 
 
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 eight in the morning. On Sunday 14. About 
 five I began in my ufuai place at Athlone, on 
 the Conaught fide of the river. I believe the 
 congregation (both of Proteftants and Papifts,) 
 was never fo large before. Some were difpleaf- 
 ed at this: and feveral pieces of turf were 
 thrown over the houfes, with fome {tones. But 
 neither one nor the other could in the leafl in- 
 terrupt the attention of the people. Then a po- 
 pifh miller (prompted by his betters, fo called) 
 got up to preach over again!) me. But fome of 
 his comrades throwing a little dirt in his face, 
 he leaped down in hafte, to fight them. This 
 bred a tray, in which he was fo roughly hand- 
 led. that he was glad to get off with only a 
 bloody nofe. 
 
 Monday 15. I had the pleafure of meeting 
 many of my friends from various parts at Coolv- 
 lough. I preached at twelve under the {hade of 
 fome fpreading trees, and again at fix in the 
 evening. Tuefday 16. I preached at Tyrrels- 
 pafs, with a peculiar bleffing from God, though 
 many perfons of fortune were in the congrega- 
 tion. Bu the poor and the rich are his. 
 
 Wednefday 1 y. I preached in the Grove at 
 Edinderry. Manv of the Quakers were there, 
 (it being the ti re of their general meeting) and 
 many of all forts. I met here, with the journal 
 of William Edmundfon, one of their preachers 
 in the laft century. If the original equa'led the 
 pifture (which 1 fee no reafon to doubt) vhaf an 
 
 amiable 
 
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 amiable man was this ? His opinions I leave ; but 
 what a fpirit was here ? What faith, love, gen- 
 tlenefs, long-fuffering ? Could mijiakes fend 
 fuch a man as this to hell ? Not fo. I am fo far 
 from believing this, that I fcruple not to fay, 
 “ Let my foul be with the foul of William Ed- 
 mundfon !” 
 
 * Thurfday 18. The wind in our face temper- 
 ing the heat of the fun, we had a pleafant ride to 
 Dublin. In the evening I began expounding the 
 deepefi part of the holy fcripture, namely the 
 firft epiflie of St. John ; by which, above all 
 other even infp-iied writings, 1 advife every 
 yoLtng preacher to form his fide. Here are fub- 
 limity and fimplicity together, the ftrongeft 
 fenfe and the plained language ! flow can any 
 one that would /peak as the oracles oj God , ufe 
 harder words than are found here? 
 
 Sunday 21. Between eight and nine I began 
 preaching in the Barrack-fquare to fuch a con- 
 gregation as I never faw in Dublin before. And 
 every one was as quiet, as if we had been in the 
 new fquare at Brifiol. What a change fince Mr. 
 Whitefield a few years ago attempted to preach 
 near this place ! 
 
 Monday 22. I rode to Donard, a little town 
 in the county of Wicklow. Here I met with 
 more noife and fiupid, fenfelefs impudence, than 
 I have found fince I left England. But the chief 
 man of the town having handled one of the dis- 
 turbers roughly, and another of them being 
 
 knocked 
 
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 knocked down (not by a Methodift $ I conclud- 
 ed my difcourfe without any farther hindrance. 
 
 June 23. 1 began, as ufual, at five. About the 
 middle of the fermon, the rain (which was ex- 
 ceedingly wanted) began, and drove us into our 
 friend’s houfe ; where I found his daughters, 
 five fillers, all rejoicing in God their Saviour. 
 Hence I rode to Baltinglafs. But I had fcarce 
 fpoken five minutes when the rain drove us into 
 the houfe here alfo. I had defigned to preach 
 at Carlow in the evening. But the difficulty was 
 where to find a place ? Our houfe was too 
 fmall : and there was 1-ttle profpe£l of preaching 
 quietly in the llreet. While we were confider- 
 ing, one of the chief perfons in the town, fent to 
 defire I would preach in her court-yard. This 
 I did to a multitude of people rich and poor. And 
 there was no dillurbance at all. Nor did I ob- 
 ferve, that any went away, though we had a fharp 
 fhower, almoll as foon as I begin. 
 
 Wednefday 24. I rode, in theFotteft day I 
 have felt this year, to Dublin. Thurfda\ and Fri- 
 day morning I fpent in a conference with our 
 preachers : in the afternoons I fpoke to the mem- 
 bers of the fociety I left four hundred and forty, 
 and find above five hundred ; more than ever 
 they were fince my firft landing in the kingdom. 
 And they are not increafed in number only; but 
 many of rhem are rejoicing in the pure love of 
 God. And many more refufe to be comforted, 
 till they can witnefs the fame confeffion. 
 
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 Sunday 28. 1 preached in the Barrack-fquare, 
 both morning and afternoon. The morning con- 
 gregation was far larger than Laft week : but this 
 was doubled in the afternoon. At both times 
 my heart was much inlarged towards them, and 
 my voice fo {Lengthened, that I fuppofe, fever- 
 al thoufands more might have diftin&ly heard 
 every fentence. 
 
 Monday 29. I was deftred by fome friends to 
 take a ride to the Dargle, ten or twelve miles 
 from Dublin"; one of the greateft natural curio- 
 fities, they faid, which the kingdom afforded. 
 It far exceeded my expectation. You have a 
 high and deep mountain, covered with {lately 
 wood, up the fide of which a path is cut, and 
 feats placed at fmall diftances. A deep vale, 
 through which a clear river runs, lies between 
 this and another high mountain, whole Tides are 
 clothed with tall trees, row above row, from the 
 river to the very top. Near the fummit of the 
 firft mountain, you have an opening on the one 
 hand which commands the fruitful counties of 
 Kildare-, Dublin and Loth, as far in a clear fun- 
 fhiny day, as the huge mountains of Newry : on 
 the other hand is a fine landfcape of meadows 
 and fields, that terminates in a fea-profpe£L Ad- 
 ding this to the reft, it exceeds any thing which 
 I have feen in Great-Britain. And yet the eye 
 is not fati fed with feeing ! It never can, till we 
 fee God. 
 
 Wednefday 31. At the earned defire of a 
 
 friend, 
 
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 friend, I fuffered Mr. Hunter to take my pic- 
 ture. I fat only once, from about ten o’clock, 
 to half an hour after one. And in that time he 
 began and ended the face ; and with a moft 
 ftriking likenefs. 
 
 Friday, Auguft 2 . One informed me, that the 
 captain with whom I had agreed for my palfage, 
 was gone without me, but had taken mv horfe. 
 I was content, believing all was for the belt. 
 But we foon heard, he was only fallen down a 
 few miles. So we took a boat and followed 
 him ; and about ten, we went on board the Fe- 
 licity, bound for Whitehaven. In about an hour 
 we fet fail. Soon after the wind turned, and 
 was againft us moll part of Saturday and Sunday. 
 On Sunday I preached to our little congregation, 
 thirteen in all, on The kingdom of heaven is at 
 hand: Repent ye, and believe the go [pel. In a 
 fliort time, the wind fprung up fair, but with 
 intervals of calm. So that we did not reach 
 Whitehaven key, till Tuefday 6, between twelve 
 and one in the morning. After fleeping two or 
 three hours, I haflened away, and in the after- 
 noon came to Carlifle. Some friends waited 
 for me here. We purpofed fetting out early in 
 the morning : but one of our company being 
 taken ill, we waited feme hours, fo that we did 
 not reach Newcaftle till about one on Thurfday 
 Morning. 
 
 I fcarce ever faw the people here fo much 
 alive to God ; particularly thofe who believe 
 
 they 
 
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 they are faved from fin. I was ready to fay. It 
 is good for me to be here : but I mull not build 
 tabernacles. I am to be a wanderer on earth 
 and defire no reft, till my fpirit returns to 
 God. 
 
 Sunday 11. I preached about feven at the Fell, 
 to our honeft, lively colliers : and about two 
 in the afternoon in the fquare at Hartly eleven 
 miles From Newcaftle. Thence I haften’d back to 
 the Gartheads, where was the largeft congrega- 
 tion which has been there for many years. After- 
 wards feveral hundreds of us met at the room, 
 and folemnly renewed our covenant with God. 
 About eight I was fo tired, I could hardly ftand. 
 But after fpeaking another hour all my wearinefs 
 was gone, and I was as lively and ftrong as at 
 eight in the morning. 
 
 Monday 12. I went to Sunderland : here 
 likewife is a people ready prepared for the Lord. 
 Tuef. 13. Ipurpofedto preach abroad at Durham; 
 but the rain hindered. As many as could hear 
 behaved well : and many felt that God was there. 
 At Yarm, in the evening, one would have 
 thought, the whole congregation loved or feared 
 God: fo much thought appeared in all their faces : 
 fo muchdeceny in their behaviour. 
 
 Wednefday 15. I preached in the evening 
 at Leeds, and next morning rode to Hudders- 
 field. Mr. Venn having given notice on Sunday 
 of my preaching, we had a numerous congrega- 
 tion. 
 
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 tion. We had a warm ride from hence to Man* 
 chefter. But as my day, fo was my ftrength. 
 
 Friday 16. I rode over to Chefter, and preach- 
 ed to as many as the new houfe would well con- 
 tain. We had likewife a numerous congregation 
 on Saturday, morning as well as evening. How 
 the grace of God concurs with his providence? 
 A new houfe not only brings a new congrega- 
 tion, but likewife (what we have obferved again 
 and again) a new blefting from God. And no 
 wonder if every labour of love , finds even a pre- 
 fent reward. 
 
 Sunday 18. The houfe contained the morn- 
 ing congregation. But in the evening multitudes 
 were conftrained to go away. So does truth win 
 its way againft all oppofition if it be fteadily de- 
 clared with meeknefs of wifdom. 
 
 Monday 19. I preached in Northwich at ten, 
 and at Manchefter in the evening. Our confer- 
 ence began on Tuefday 20. and ended on Fri- 
 day 23. Sunday 25, having been all the week 
 greatly ftraitened for room, I preached at feven 
 irnthe New-fquare : the congregration was ex- 
 ceeding large : yet generally and deeply atten- 
 tive. About one I preached at Stockport on a 
 green at the fouth end of the town. It was ful- 
 try hot, but few regarded it ; for God f.nt a gra - 
 ciou s rain upon his inheritance. 
 
 At fix in the evening I preached at Maxfield, 
 and fetting out early in the morning, by long 
 ftages came to Binriingham, where a large con- 
 gregation 
 
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 gregation waited for me. I began immediately to 
 apply thofe comfortable words, Open thy mouth 
 wide, and I will fill'll. I foon forgot my wearinefs 
 and the heat of the place. God was there and it 
 was enough. On Tuefd. 27. I rode on to Stroud, 
 and the next morning to Briftol. After refting 
 three or four days, on Monday, September 2. 
 I fet out for Cornwall, and preached that even- 
 ing at Middlefey. Tuefday g, I rode to Tiver- 
 ton, and in the evening preached near the Eaft- 
 end of the town to a large and quiet audience. 
 Wednefday 4. I rode on to North-Tauton ; a 
 village where feveral of our preachers had preach- 
 ed occafionally. About fix I went to the door 
 of our inn : but I had hardly ended the pfalm, 
 when a clergyman came, with two or three, (by 
 the courtfey of England called) gentlemen. Af- 
 ter I had named my text, I faid, “ There may 
 be fome truths which concern fome men only. 
 But this concerns all mankind.” The minifter 
 cried out, “ That is falfe dodlrine, that is pre- 
 deftination.” Then the roar began, to fecond 
 which they had brought an huntfman with his 
 hounds. But the dogs were wifer than the men: 
 for they could not bring them to make any noife 
 at all. One of the gentlemen fupphed their 
 place. He allured us he was fuch, or none 
 
 would have fufpedted it. For his language was 
 as bafe, loul, and pos terly, as ever was heard at 
 Billmgfgate. Dog, Rafcal, Puppy, and the 
 like terms adorned almofl every fentence. Find- 
 Vol. XXXII. B ing 
 
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 ing there was no probability of a quiet hearing, 
 I left him the field, and withdrew to my lodg- 
 ing. 
 
 Thurfday 5. We had a pleafant ride to Mill, 
 houfe, where I preached at five to a deeply feri- 
 ous congregation. The next day at noon I 
 preached in a field near Camelford, it being the 
 fair-day, on, Come. and. buy wine and milk, with- 
 out money and without price. I preached within 
 at Port Ifaac, becaufe of the rain: but many 
 were conilrained to Hand without. It was a 
 glorious opportunity ; God fhoweiing down his 
 bleffing on many fouls. 
 
 Saturday 7. I rode to St. Cuthbert (that is the 
 true fpelling) and found Mr. Hofkius weak in 
 body, but happy in God. He was juft able to 
 ride to the church-town in the evening, where 
 a ferious congregation foon adembled. Sunday 
 8. About eight I preached at St. Agnes : at 
 one, in the main dreet at Redruth. But a Hill 
 larger congregation was at Gw'enap in the even- 
 ing, equal to any I have feen in Moorfields. 
 Yet, I think, they all heard, while I inforced, 
 Why will ye die , 0 houfe of Ifrael? 
 
 * After preaching I returned to Redruth: 
 where hearing an exceeding firange dory, I fent 
 for the perfon herfelf, Grace Paddy, a well-bred, 
 fenfible young woman. I can fpeak of her now 
 without redraint, as (he is fafe in Abraham’s bo- 
 fom. She faid, “ I was harmlefs, as I thought, 
 4 * but quite carelefs about religion, till about 
 
 “ Chriitmas 
 
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 “ Chriftmas, when my brother was faying' 
 “ “ God has given to me all I want : I am as bap- 
 “ py as I can live.” This was about ten in the 
 “ morning. The words went like an arrow to 
 “ my heart. I went into my chamber and 
 “ thought, “ Why am not I fo ? O, I cannot 
 “ be, becaufe I am not convinced of fin.” “ I 
 ** I cried out vehemently, “ Lord, lay as much 
 “ convidlion upon me as my body can bear.” 
 “ Immediately I faw myfelf in fuch a light, that 
 “ I roared for the difquietnefs of my heart. The 
 “ maid running up, I faid, “ Call mv brother.” 
 “Hecame; rejoiced over me ; faid, “ Chrift 
 “ is juft ready to receive you ! Only believe I” 
 “And went to prayer. In a fhort time ali my 
 “ trouble was gone, and I did believe al! my fins 
 “ were blotted out. But in the evening I was 
 
 O 
 
 “ throughly convinced of the want of a deeper 
 “ change. I felt the remains of fin in my heart, 
 “ which I longed to have taken away. I longed to 
 “ be faved from all fin, to b ecle.anfd from all un - 
 “ rigthe.oufncfs. And at the time Mr. Rankin was 
 preaching, this defire increafed exceedingly. 
 “ Afterwards he met the fociety. During his 
 “ laft prayer I was quite overwhelmed with the 
 “ power of God. I felt an inexpreftible change, 
 “ in the very depth of my hea't And from that 
 “ hour I have fell no anger, no pride, no wrong 
 “ temper of any kind : nothing contrary to the 
 “ pure love of God, which I leel continually. 
 
 B 2 “I defire 
 
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 “ I defire nothing but Chrifl : and I have Chrifl: 
 “ always reigning in my heart. I want nothing: 
 “ he is my fufficient portion in time and in 
 “ eternity.” 
 
 * Such an inftance I never knew before : 
 fuch an inftance I never read : a perfon convinc- 
 ed of fin, converted to God, and renewed in 
 love, within twelve hours ! Yet it is by no 
 means incredible ; feeing one day is with God 
 as a thoufand years. 
 
 Monday 9. The room would by no means 
 contain the congregation at five in the morning. 
 How is this town changed ! Some years fince a 
 Methodift preacher could not fafely ride through 
 it. Now high and low, few excepted, fay, 
 BleJJcd is he that cometh in the name of the Lord ! 
 
 About one I preached at Portkellis : at fix 
 in Crowan. I admire the depth of grace in the 
 generality of this people : fo limple, fo humble, 
 fo teachable, fo ferious, fo utterly dead to the 
 world ! 
 
 Tuefday 10. They filled the houfe at five, I 
 preached in Breag at twelve, under a lovely 
 Jhade of trees. About fix I began at St.John's near 
 Helfton, once as furious a town as Redruth. Now 
 almofi all the gentry of the town were prefent, 
 and heard with the deepeft attention. 
 
 Wednefday 11. Perceiving my voice began to 
 fail I refolved to preach, for a while, but twice a 
 day. In the evening I preached in a little 
 ground at Newlin, to a numerous congregation. 
 
 Non® 
 
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 None behaved amifs but a young gentleman, who 
 feemed to underhand nothing of the matter. 
 
 Thurfday 12. Coming to St. Juft, I learned 
 that John Bennets had died fome hours before. 
 He was a wife and a good man, who had been 
 above twenty years as father to that fociety. A 
 little before his death he examined each of his 
 children concerning their abiding in the faith. 
 Being fatisfied of this he told them, “ Now I 
 have no doubt but we fhall meet again at the 
 right hand of our Lord.” He then chearfully 
 committed his foul to him, and fell afleep. 
 
 On the numerous congregation in the even- 
 ing I inforced thofe folemn words, There is no 
 work , nor device , nor knowledge, nor wifdom in 
 the grave, whether thou goejl. 
 
 Friday 13 . 1 rode to St. Ives, and in the even- 
 ing preached on the fea-fhore. But though there 
 was little wind, yet the noife of the waves pre- 
 vented many from hearing. Saturday 14. About 
 noon I preached at the Hale, a fmall arm of the 
 fea, which runs up into the land, two or three 
 miles from St. Ives, and makes a tolerable har- 
 bour. In the evening we procured a more con- 
 venient place at St. Ives, a meadow on the fide of 
 the hill, where the people flood before me, 
 row above row, to a confiderable diftance. On 
 Sunday 15, we had nearly the fame congregation 
 at feven in the morning ; to whom I explained. 
 Truly our felloujhip is with the Father and with 
 Jus Son Jefas Chrijl. At One I preached in 
 B 3 Lelant 
 
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 Lelant three miles from St. Ives : and at five in 
 the fame meadow, to a larger congregation than 
 before. Indeed the whole town feems moved ; 
 the truths we preach being fo confirmed by the 
 lives of i he people. 
 
 Monday 16. We had our quarterly meeting 
 at Redruth : and it appeared, by the accounts 
 from all parts that the flame, which was kindled 
 the laft year, though abated, is not extinguifhed. 
 At fix I began on the marls et-houfe fteps, as 
 uftial, to a very numerous congregation. But I 
 had not finifhed the hymn, when Mr. C. came, 
 and read the aft again!! riots. I faid, “ Mr C. 
 “ I did not expeft this from you : I really thought 
 “ you had more underftanding.” He anfwered 
 not, but flood like one aftonilhed, neither mov- 
 ing hand nor foot. However I removed two or 
 three hundred yards, and quietly finifhed my 
 difcourfe. 
 
 Tuefday 17. I rode to Medros, near St. Awftle, 
 where we had the quarterly meeting for the eaft- 
 ern circuit. Here likewife we had an agreeable 
 account of a ft ill increafing work of God. This 
 fociety has eighty-fix members, and all rejoicing 
 in the love of God. Fifty-five or fifty-fix of 
 thefe believe he has faved them from all fin. 
 And their life no way contradifts their profef- 
 fion. But how many will endure to the end ? 
 
 Wednefday 18. I fet out for Plymouth-Dock. 
 In the way we called on one of our friends near 
 Lifkard, and found his wife, once ftrong in 
 
 faith, 
 
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 faith, in the very depth of defpair. I could not 
 but admire the providence of God, which fent 
 us fo feafonably thither. We cried ftrongly to 
 God in her behalf, and left her not a little com- 
 forted. 
 
 The focietv at the Dock had been for fome 
 time in a miferable condition. Difputes had run 
 fo high, concerning a worthlefs man, that every 
 one’s fword was fet as it were againfthis brother. 
 I Ihewed them how Satan had defired to have 
 them, that he might fift them as wheat : and after- 
 wards told them, there was but one way to take, 
 to pafs an abfolute a£l of oblivion : not to men- 
 tion, on any pretence whatever, any thing that 
 had been faid or done on either fide. They fully 
 determined fo to do : if they keep that refolu* 
 tion, God will return to them. 
 
 Thurfdav 19. 1 rode to Tiverton, and preach- 
 ed to a deeply ferious congregation. Friday 20. 
 I preached at noon in Hillfarrance, near Taun- 
 ton, where I had not been for fifteen years. 
 Saturday 21. I preached about noon at Sbepton- 
 Mallet, and then went on to Briffol. 
 
 Wednefday 25. About one I preached at Paul- 
 ton, under a large, fhady tree. My own foul, 
 and I trull many others were refrefhed, while I 
 was defcribing our fellowjhip with the Father and 
 the Son. 
 
 After vifiting the other neighbouring places, 
 on Saturday 28, at noon I preached at Bath. 
 But I had only the poor to hear, there being fer- 
 B 4 vice 
 
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 vice at tl: fame time in Lady H.’s chapel. Sol 
 was jm. . my element. I have fcarce ever found 
 fuch liberty at Bath before. 
 
 Monday 30. and the two following days, I 
 examined the fociety at Briftol, and was fur- 
 prized to find fifty members fewer, than I left in 
 it lall OClober. One reafon is, Chrifiian Perfec- 
 feflion has been little infilled on. And where- 
 ever this is not done, be the preachers ever fo 
 eloquent, there is little increafe, either in the 
 number or the grace of the hearers. 
 
 Saturday, October ,5. I fpent feme time with 
 the children at Kingfwood. They are all in health. 
 They behave well. They learn well. But alas ! 
 (Two or three excepted) there is no life in 
 them ! 
 
 About this time the oldeft preacher in our 
 connection, Alexander Coats, relied from his 
 labours. A little account of his death, one 
 who was in the houfe fent me in thefe words: 
 
 Newcaftle, OCtober 7. 1765. 
 
 “ I had an opportunity the lall evening of fee- 
 ing our dear aged brother Coats. A few days be- 
 fore, he was fore tempted by the enemy ; but 
 near the clofe, he had perfefit peace. His faith 
 was clear, and he found Chrift precious, his por- 
 tion and his eternal all. I alked him a little be- 
 fore he died, if he had followed cunningly de- 
 vfed fables ? He anfwered, “No, no, no. ! I 
 
 then 
 
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 then afked him, whether he faw b\ 1 ? He 
 faid, “ Yes, I do.” And after waking a few 
 moments at anchor, he put into the quiet har- 
 bour.” 
 
 \Vednefday9. I read Mr. Jones’s ingenious 
 elfay on the principles of natural philofophy. 
 He feems to have totally overthrown the New- 
 tonian principles. But whether he can eflablifh 
 the Hutchinfonian, is another queltion. 
 
 Friday 11. We obferved as a day of fading 
 and prayer. Sunday 13. We met in the even- 
 ing, jointly to renew our covenant with God. 
 It was, as ufual, a time of remarkable blef- 
 fing. 
 
 Monday 14. In the evening I preached at 
 Shaftefoury, and on Tuefday at Wincaunton. 
 Riding homeward we faw the pond, in which a 
 great man, a few weeks fince, put an end to a 
 wretched life. And is death more welcome than 
 'life, even to a man that w allows in gold and fil- 
 ver ? 
 
 Sunday 20. I preached a funeral fermon at 
 Kingfwood, over the remains of Sufanna Flook : 
 who a few days before rofe up and faid, “ I am 
 dying and dropped down dead. So little fecu- 
 rity is there in youth or health! Re ye therefor e 
 likewije ready ! 
 
 Monday 21. I went in the coach to Salifbury, 
 and on Thurfday 24, came to London. Monday 
 28. I breakfafted with Mr. Whitefield, who 
 B 5 feem.ec! 
 
[ 34 ] 
 
 feemed to be an old, old man, being fairly worn 
 out in his Matter's fervice, though he has hardly 
 feen fifty years. And yet it pleafes God, that I, 
 who am now in my fixty-third year, find no dif- 
 order, no weaknefs, no decay, no difference from 
 what I was at five and twenty : only that I have 
 fewer teeth, and more grey hairs! 
 
 Thurfday, November 7. A fire broke out near 
 the corner of Leadenhall-fti eet, which (the wind 
 being exceeding high) foorx fcized on both the 
 corners of the ftreet, and both the corners of 
 Cornhill, and in a few hours defrayed above 
 threefcore houfes. Yet no lives were loft. Even 
 Mr. Rutland (at whofe houfe it began) and his 
 whole family were preferved, part efcaping 
 through the chamber window, part over the top 
 of the houfe. 
 
 * Sunday 24. I preached on thofe words in 
 the lefTon for the day, The Lord our ri 6 hteoufnefs. 
 I faid not one thing, which I have not faid, at 
 leaft, fifty times within this twelvemonth. Yet 
 it appeared to many entire y new, who much 
 importuned me to print my fennon, fur pofing 
 “ it would ftop the mouths of all gainfavers.” 
 Alas for their fimplicity I In foite of all I can 
 print, fa) .. or do, will not thofe who / > occafion 
 of offence find ocafion? 
 
 Monday, December 2. I went to Canterbury. 
 I had received molt tragical accounts, as it the 
 fociety were all /alien from grace , it e er ’hey 
 had any. I determined 10 i'earch this to the bot- 
 tom. 
 
[ 35 ] 
 
 tom. To this end I examined them one by one : 
 and was agreeably furprized, to find them all 
 (none excepted] upright and blamelefs in their 
 behaviour. 
 
 Tuefday 3 . 1 rode to Dover, and found a little 
 company more united together than they have 
 been for many years. Whilft feveral of them 
 continued to rob the king, we feemed to be 
 plowing upon the fand. But fince they have cut 
 off the right hand, the word of God finks deep 
 into their hearts. 
 
 Wednefday 4. I preached about noon at Sand- 
 wich, and in the evening at Margate. A few 
 people here alfo join in helping each other, to 
 work out their falvation. But the minifler of the 
 parifh earnefily oppofes them, and thinks he is 
 doing God fervice ! 
 
 Thurfday 3. I rode back to Feverfham. Here 
 I was quickly infoi med, that the mob and the 
 magiftrates had agreed together to drive metho- 
 difm, fo called, out of the town. After preaching, 
 I told them what we had been contained to 
 do, by the magiftrate at Rolvenden ; who per- 
 haps would have been richer by fome hundred 
 pounds, had he never meddled with the Metho- 
 difts : concluding, “ Since we have both God 
 and the law on our fide, if we can have peace 
 by fair means, we had much rather, we fhould 
 be exceeding glad : but if not, we will have 
 tieace.” 
 
 B 6 
 
 Saturday 
 
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 Saturday 7 . 1 returned to London. Wednefday 
 
 11. I had much converfaliun with Mr. D e, 
 
 lately a Romifh pried. What wonder is it, that 
 we have fo many converts to popery, and fo few 
 to proteftantifm ; when the former are fure to 
 want nothing, and the latter almoft fure to 
 flarve ? 
 
 * Thurfday 12 . 1 rode over to Latonftone, and. 
 found one truly Chrijha n family. This is, what 
 that at Kingfwood fiould be ; and would , if it had 
 fuch governors. Friday 13. I examined the chil* 
 dren one by one. Several of them did find the 
 love of God. One enjoys it Hill, and continues to 
 walk humbly and clofely with God, 
 
 Sunday 15. I buried the remains of Henry 
 Perronet, who had been a child of forrow from 
 his infancy. But from the time he was taken ill, 
 his mind was more and more compofed. The 
 day and night before his death, he was praying 
 continually, till all fear being taken away, he 
 chearlully gave up his fpirit to God. 
 
 * Wednefday 18. Riding through the Bo- 
 rough, all my mare s feet flew up, and fhe 1 ell 
 with my leg under her. A gentleman flepping 
 out, lifted me up, and helped me into his {hop. 
 1 was exceeding fick, but was prefently relieved, 
 by a little hartfhorn and water. After reding a 
 few minutes, I took a coach; but when I was 
 cold found myfeif much worfe, being bruifed on 
 my right arm, my bread, my knee, leg and ankle, 
 which fwelled exceedingly. However I went on 
 
 to 
 
[ 37 3 
 
 to Shoreham, where, by applying treacle twice a 
 day, all the forenefs was removed, and I reco- 
 vered fome ftrength, fo as to be able to walk a 
 little on plain ground. The word of God does at 
 length bear fruit here alfo, and Mr. P. is com- 
 forted over all his trouble. Saturday 21. Being 
 not yet able to ride, I returned in a chariot to 
 London. 
 
 Sunday 22. I was ill able to go through the 
 fervice at Weft-ftreet. But God provided for 
 this alfo. Mr. Greaves, being juft ordained, came 
 ftrait to the chapel, and gave me the afliitance I 
 wanted. 
 
 Thurfday 26. I fhould have been glad of a few 
 days reft : but it could not be at this bufy fea- 
 fon. However, being eleftrified morning and 
 evening, my lamenefs mended, though but 
 flowly. 
 
 Wed nefday, January 1, 1766. A large congre- 
 gation met in the Foundery, at four o’clock, 
 and ufhered in the new year with the voice of 
 praife and thankfgiving. In the evening we met, 
 as ufual, at the church in Spitalfields, to renew 
 our covenant with God. This is always a re- 
 frefhing feafon, at which fome ptifoners are fet 
 at liberty. 
 
 Friday 3. Mr. B called upon me, 
 
 now calm and in his right mind. God has re- 
 prefTed his furious, bitter zeal, by means of 
 Mr. Whitefield. He made the breach among the 
 
 Methodifis ; 
 
[ 38 ] 
 
 Metkodifis: O that God may empower him to 
 heal it ! 
 
 Sunday 5. In the evening I went to Lew- 
 ifham. Thurfday 9. I read Bilhop Lowth’s an- 
 fwer to Bifhop W. If any thing human could be 
 a cure for pride, furely fuch a medicine as this 
 would ! 
 
 Monday 13. I went in the machine to Bury, 
 and preached to a final), ferious congregation. 
 Tuefday 14. The frozen road being exceeding 
 rough, our machine broke down before dav. 
 However it was patched up fo as to carry us to 
 Budfdale ; and in the evening I preached at Yar- 
 mouth. The work ol God was increafing here, 
 when poor B. W. was converted to Calvinifm. 
 Immediately he declared open war, tore the fo- 
 ciety in pieces, took all he could to himfelf, 
 wholly quitted the church, and raifed fuch afcan- 
 da! as will not foon be removed. Yet doubtlefs, 
 he who turned the young man’s head, thinks, he 
 has done God fervice! 
 
 Thurfday 16, I rode to Norwich, and preached 
 at feven in a large place called The Priory. The 
 room, I fuppofe, was formerly the chapel ; Hike 
 it the better on that account. After fpending 
 three days here more agreeably than I had done 
 for many years, on Monday 20, I left a fociety 
 of an hundred and feventv members, regular and 
 well united together. In the evening the machine 
 put up at the White Elm. On Tuefday morning 
 I reached Colchefter. 
 
 I found 
 
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 I found the fociety here flowly recovering 
 from the mifchiefdone by offence and difputing 
 together. I had great liberty of fpeecb both 
 morning and evening, and God feemed flrongly 
 to apply his word. Surely they will at length 
 learn to bear one another s burdens : then will the 
 zvildernejs blojjom and bud as a roje. 
 
 Friday 24. I returned to London. Tuefday 
 28. Our brethren met together to confider 
 our temporal affairs. One propofed, that we 
 fhould in the firfl place pay off the debt of the fo- 
 ciety, which was five hundred pounds. To- 
 wards this an hundred and feventy were fub- 
 fcribed immediately. At a feqond meeting, this 
 was enlarged to three hundred and twenty. 
 Surely God will fupply the ref}. 
 
 Friday 31. Mr. Whitefield called upon me. 
 He breathes nothing but peace and love. Bigotry 
 cannot Hand before him, but hides its head 
 wherever he comes. 
 
 Sunday, February 2. I dined with W. Welfb, 
 the father of the late fociety for reformation of 
 manners. But that excellent defign is at a full 
 flop. They have indeed convi&ed the wretch, 
 who by wilful perjury carried the caufe atrajflft 
 them in Weflminfter hall. But they couH ne- 
 ver recover the expence of that fuit. Lord, how 
 long fhall the ungodly triumph ! 
 
 Wednefday 5. One called upon me who had 
 been cheated out of a large fortune, and was now 
 perifhing for want of bread. I had a defire to 
 
 cloath 
 
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 cloath him and fend him back to his own coun- 
 try; but was fhort of money. However, I ap- 
 pointed him to call again in an hour. He did 
 fo; but before he came, one from whom I ex- 
 pected nothing lefs, put twenty guineas into my 
 hand. So I ordered him to be cloathed from 
 head to foot, and I fent him ftrait away to Dub- 
 lin. 
 
 Monday 10. and the four following days I 
 wrote a catalogue of the fociety, now reduced 
 from eight and twenty hundred to about two 
 and twenty. Such is the fruit of George 
 Bell’s enthufiafm, and Thomas Maxfield’s grati- 
 tude J 
 
 Monday 17 . 1 preached at Sundon. And many 
 looked, as if they underfiood fomething of what 
 was faid. Tuefday 18. I went on to Bedford, 
 and found James Glafbrook had juft buried his 
 wife, a woman of fine underfianding and an ex- 
 cellent fpirit, fnatched away in the dawn of her 
 ufefulnefs. What thou doji, we know not now! 
 We wonder and adore ! The next day I rode 
 over to Copley, where lhe died, and preached 
 her funeral fermon. In the evening I preached 
 at Bedford, and found God was there alfo. 
 
 And “where thy prefence isdifplav’d, is heaven.” 
 
 Thurfday 20. I preached at Hertford, and in 
 llie evening at Latonftor.e. Friday 20 . 1 preached 
 
 at 
 
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 at Oldford, near Bow. Part of the congrega* 
 tion were deeply ferious ; the other part wild 
 and ftupid enough. But the bridle was in their 
 mouth, fo that they made no noife ; nay, and 
 were, in a manner, attentive. 
 
 Sunday 23. In the evening I went to Lewi- 
 fham, and finilhed the notes on the book of 
 Job. About this time, one of Henry Jackfon s 
 daughters gave me the following letter from her 
 filler . 
 
 Newcaftle, February 23, 1766. 
 “ On Thurfday, the 13th of this month, my 
 “ honoured father looked fo beautiful and come- 
 “ 1 y, that we all wondered. At night, in his 
 “ firlt deep, he was taken very ill. On Friday 
 morning I alked him, “ what he could take ?” 
 “ He anfwered, “ 1 am to eat no more.” His ill- 
 *■ nefs increafed : but he was Hill calm and 
 “ compofed, and refigned to the will of God. 
 “ Indeed I always beheld in him fuch faith, 
 “ love and divine refignation, as I never faw in 
 “ any other. On Sunday he faid, “ Now my foul 
 “ is prepared, and made ready to meet the Lord.” 
 *• From this time he was filled with longing de- 
 “ fires, to depart and to be with Chrilt ; crying 
 “ out, I cannot flay: I mull go to my beloved, to 
 “ be with him for ever.” Monday 17. He faid, 
 1 have fought a good fight : 1 have finijhed my 
 “ courfe , I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is 
 “ laid up for me a crown of glory, which the righ - 
 “ teous Judge Jhallgive me at that day . Tuefday 
 
 “ 18. 
 
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 “ 18. after receiving the bleffed facrament, he 
 “ declared to the minifler, “ My anchor is caft 
 *■ within the veil, both fure and immoveable.” 
 “ And as long as he had his fpeech. he preach- 
 “ ed Chrill to every one that came to fee him. 
 “ Indeed his whole life for many years was but 
 “ one dedication of his body and foul to God, 
 “ praying continually, and being loll in praife 
 •* and thankfgiving to his adorable faviour. In 
 “ all the various difpenfations of God’s provi- 
 “ dence towards him and his family, he was 
 “ flill magnifying and praifing his holy name, 
 “ always thankful, humble, loving, and obedient. 
 “ Nothing was able to move him one moment, 
 “ or put him out of temper: but he received 
 “ every thing from the hand of God, with faith, 
 “ patience, and refignation. Before his fpeech 
 “ failed, he blefied all his children, grand chil- 
 “ dren and great-grand-children ; and on Thurf- 
 “ day morning, February 20, yielded up his foul 
 “ to God being ninety-nine years and five months 
 “ old.” 
 
 Saturday, March 1. I read bifhop Lowth’s in- 
 genious lectures de poefi hebrcea, far more fatis- 
 fa£lory than any thing on that fubjeft which I 
 ever faw before. He (hews clearly, that the no- 
 blefl poetry may fubfifl, without being beholden 
 either to ryme or fixed meafures. 
 
 Thurfday 6. Our brethren met once more, on 
 account of the public debt. And they did not part 
 
 till 
 
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 till more than the whole, (which was fix hundred 
 and ten pounds) was fuhfcribed. 
 
 Sunday 9. In the evening I went to Knights- 
 bridge, and in the morning, took the machine 
 for Briftol, where I preached (as I had appointed) 
 on Tuefday evening, and met the fociety. Wed- 
 nefday 12, I rode over to Kingfwood, and hav- 
 ing told my whole mind to the matters and fer- 
 vants, fpoke to the children in a far ftrongerman- 
 ner, than ever I did before. I will kill or cure ; I 
 will have one or the other, a Chriftian fchool, or 
 none at all. 
 
 Sund. 16 . 1 preached in Princefs-ftreet at eight, 
 on Awake thou that Jleepefl : and at the fquare in 
 the evening, to a liftening multitude, on Come , 
 Lordjefus ! At Kingfwood we had fuch a congre- 
 gation at ten as has not been there for feveral 
 years. And I had the fatisfaftion to find four of 
 our children again rejoicing in the love of God. 
 
 Mon. 17. 1 rode to Stroud, the fun Ihining as 
 in May. Seventeen fuch days in the beginning 
 of March, I fuppofe few men have known. But 
 on Tuefday the weather intirely changed : and 
 the piercing north-eaft wind, this and the two 
 following days, was fcarce fupportable. At feven 
 I preached in the room at Painfwick, and about 
 ten came to Cheltenham. Here I was in a ftrait : 
 the houfe would not hold half the people : and 
 the wind was keen enough. However I thought 
 this the lefs evil of the two, and fo preached a- 
 broad, where we were tolerably fheltered. And 
 
 I did 
 
t 44 1 
 
 I did not obferve that any, rich or poor, went 
 away till I concluded. 
 
 I reached Evefham about five in the evening, 
 and preached about fix with tolerable quiet. But 
 as we returned the mob, encouraged by the 
 wretched magiftrate were tude and noify enough. 
 Yet as they neither faluted us with hones, nor 
 dirt, we were well contented. 
 
 * Wednefday 19. We called at a little inn, 
 about fixteen miles from Evefham. But as Dun- 
 can Wright and I had our hoods on. the good 
 woman was frighted, and did not care to take us 
 in. So we rode a mile or two farther to another 
 houfe, where we came in feafon. After a little 
 talk, the woman of the houfe faid, “ I fear, it is 
 “ not fo well with me as it was once. Before I 
 “ married, I ufed to kneel down in the cow* 
 “ houfe, to pray to God for all I wanted. B.ct 
 “ now I am incumbered with worldly cares : and 
 “ yet God has not forgotten me. Laft winter, 
 
 “ when my hufband had loft the ufeofallhis 
 “ limbs, I prayed to God for him, and he was 
 “ well.” This woman knew nothing about the 
 Methodifts : but God is nigh to all that call 
 upon him. 
 
 In the evening I preached at Birmingham. 
 Towards the clofe, the mob gathered : but they 
 were reftrained till I had concluded. 
 
 Thur. 20. It was as much as we could do, to 
 bear the cold before fun-rife. However we came 
 well to Burton before eleven, where I preached 
 
 to 
 
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 to an exceeding ferious congregation. In the 
 evening I preached at Nottingham in the new 
 houfe, thoroughly filled with ferious hearers. 
 Indeed there is never any difiurbance here. And 
 there could be none any where, if the magif- 
 trates were lovers of peace, and exerted them- 
 felves in the defence of it. 
 
 Sunday 23. I had thoughts of preaching in the 
 market-place. But the fnow which fell in the 
 night made it imprafticable. In the morning the 
 houfe contained the congregation : but in the 
 evening many were conftrained to go away. There 
 feems to be now, (what never was before) a ge- 
 neral call to the town. 
 
 Monday 24. We rode to Derby. I never faw 
 this houfe full before, the people in general being 
 profoundly rarelefs. I endeavoured to fhew them 
 their pifture, by inlarging on thofe words Gallio 
 cared for none oj theje things. 
 
 Tuefday 2,5. At ten, 1 preached in their new 
 houfe at Creitch, about twelve miles from Der- 
 by to a loving, firnple hearted people, many of 
 whom felt what I fpoke of followjhip with the 
 father and with the Jon. Thence we rode on thro’ 
 feveral heavy fhowers of fnow to Sheffield, 
 where at fix we had a numerous congregation. 
 There has been much dillurbance here this win- 
 ter. But to night all was peace. 
 
 Thurfday 27. I preached in the morning at a 
 little village near Eyam, in the High-Peak. The 
 eagernefs with which the poor people devoured 
 
 the 
 
[ 46 ] 
 
 the word, made me amends for the cold ride 
 over the fnowy mountains. The fame earneftnefs 
 I obferved in the congregation at Maxfield : and 
 yet hardly a third part of thofe I formerly exa- 
 mined, now retain the glorious liberty which the}’ 
 then enjoyed. 
 
 March 28. being Good-Friday, as foon as we 
 came from church, I began at Stockport, on We 
 preach Chrijl crucified , to the Jews a fumbling - 
 block, and to the Greeks foohjhnefs. At fix in the 
 evening I preached at Manchefler, and on Satur- 
 day and Eatter-Day. In the evening 1 explained 
 to the fociety the nature of the yearly fubfcrip- 
 tion. On this one fent me the following letter. 
 
 Good Sir, March 31, 1766. 
 
 “ I thought proper to fend you a few lines, 
 « concerning what you fpoke ol laft night. How 
 “ good it was, that you put us all together as 
 “ one family ! That each might do hisutmoft to 
 “ help all his brethren ! Had you fpoke of this 
 “ fooner, and opened your mind freely as you 
 “ did yeflerdav, where I have given one fhil- 
 “ ling, 1 would have given one pound. My heart 
 “ was rejoiced at the good news, fo as my ton- 
 “ gue cannot exprefs. 1 was ready to cry out 
 “ with Zaccheus, Lo, the ha/J of?ny goods 1 give 
 “ to the poor. I have fent you two guineas, 10- 
 “ wards carrying on the work of the Lord. And 
 “ may the bleffing of the Lord go with it ; for 
 
 “ I give 
 
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 “ I give it freely : I would rather it had been 
 “ two fcore.” W. N. 
 
 Tuefday, April l.On a clofe examination, out 
 of more than fifty perfons, who two or three 
 years ago were filled with the love of God, I did 
 not find above a third part who had not buffered 
 lofs. But almoft all were deeply fenfible of their 
 lofs, and earneftly groaning for what they once 
 enjoyed. 
 
 Wednefday 2. We rode through heavy rain 
 to Chefter. Friday 4. I vifited a poor woman, 
 who has been ill eight years and is not yet weary 
 or faint in .her mind. An heavy laden finner 
 defired to receive the facrament with her, and 
 found reft to her foul: and from that hour in- 
 creafed every day in the knowledge and love of 
 God. 
 
 Mon. 7. 1 preached atWarrington about noon 
 to a large congregation, rich and poor, learn- 
 ed and unlearned. I never fpoke more -«plain : 
 nor have I ever feen a congregation liften 
 -with more attention. Thence I rode to Liver- 
 pool, and thoroughly regulated the fociety, 
 which had great need of it. Wednefday 9. 1 took, 
 much pains with a fenfible woman, who had 
 taken feveral imprudent fteps. But it was labour 
 loft : neither argument nor perfuafion made the 
 leaf! impreflion. O what power lefs than Al- 
 mighty can convince a thorough-paced enthu- 
 fiaft! 
 
 Thurfday 10. I looked over the wonderful 
 
 deed, 
 
[ 4 § ] 
 
 deed, which was lately made here: on which I 
 obferved 1. It takes up three large fkins of parch- 
 ment, and fo could not coft lefs than fix gui- 
 neas : whereas our own deed, tranfcribed by 
 a friend, would not have coft fix (hillings. 
 2. It is verbofc beyond all fenfe and reafon, and 
 withal fo ambiguoudy worded, that one paftage 
 only might find matter for a fuit of ten or twelve 
 years in chancery. 3. It every where calls the 
 houfe a Meeting-houfe, a name which I parti- 
 cularly objeft to. 4. It leaves no power either to 
 the aftiftant or me, fo much as to place or dif- 
 place a fteward. 5. Neither I, nor all the confer- 
 ence have power to fend the fame preacher two 
 years together. To crown all 6. If a preacher is 
 not appointed at the conference, the truftees and 
 the congregation are to chufe one by mo ft votes ! 
 And can any one wonder I diflike this deed, 
 which tears the methodift difcipline up by the 
 roots'? 
 
 Is it not ftrange, that any who have the lead 
 regard either for me or our difcipline, (liould 
 fcruple to alter this uncouth deed ! 
 
 Fridav 11. I preached near Wigan to a large 
 number of ferious, well-behaved people, mixt 
 with a few as ftupidly infolent creatures, as I 
 ever faw. Finding them proof both againft rea- 
 fon and perfuafion, at length I rebuked them 
 fharply. This they underftood, and quickly re- 
 tired. So I concluded in peace. 
 
 Saturday 12. I was defired to preach at Brinf- 
 
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 ly, three or four miles from Wigan. The fun 
 fhone hot, but I had fome fhelter : and the art- 
 lefs people drank in every word. About fix I 
 began in the flreet at Bolton. The wind was 
 then high and cold enough. But I foon forgot 
 it, and fo did mod of the people, being almoft 
 as thirfty as thofe at Brinfly. When I began on 
 Sunday in the afternoon, the wind was exceed- 
 ing fharp ; but it fell in a few moments, and we 
 had a mild, agreeable fummer-evening. 
 
 Monday 14. I preached at Middleton, fix 
 miles from Manchelfer. A fharp fhower of hail 
 began in the middle of the fermon ; but fcarce 
 any went awav. Tuefday 15. We rode to Chap- 
 p el in the Frith. We had a rough falutation in 
 riding through the town. At the end of which a 
 multitude of people gathered together, in a con- 
 venient meadow. I preached on, By grace ye are 
 faved through faith. God fpoke in his word. It 
 was an acceptable time, and few went emptvaway. 
 
 In riding over the dreary mountains of the 
 High-Peak, we met with feveral {forms. But 
 we were no worfe when we came to Rother- 
 ham, where I preached in the evening. The 
 fpirit ol the congregation was able to enliven 
 the dullelt preacher. Indeed it was good to be 
 here. Wednefday 16. About two in the after- 
 noon, I had another kind of congregation at 
 Doncafter, wild and flupid enough. Yet all 
 •were tolerably civil, many attentive, and fome 
 affeffed. Thence we haded to Epworth. Here I 
 took knowledge of the fame fpirit as at Rotherham. 
 Vol. XXXII. C What 
 
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 What a bleffing is it, to be with thofe who are a- 
 live to God ! But how few duly value this bleffing- 1 
 Friday 18. I fet out for the eadern pait of 
 Lincolnlhire, and after preaching at Awkbo- 
 rough and Barrow in the way, came the next 
 day to our old friends at Grimfby. It put me in 
 mind of Purryfburg in Georgia. It tear one of 
 the larged towns in the county. It is no bigger 
 than a middling village, containing a fmall num- 
 ber of half-ftarved inhabitants, without any trade, 
 either foreign or domefiic. But this they have ; 
 they love the gofpel, hardly fix families except- 
 ed. And a large proportion of them have 
 found, it is the power of God unto falvation. 
 
 Monday 21. Between nine and ten I began 
 preaching in an open place at Lowth. The mob 
 here ufed to be exceeding boiderous ; but none 
 now opened his mouth. How eafily, when it feems 
 him good, does God Jlill the madnefs of the people'. 
 
 Hence we rode to Trudthorpe in the Marfli, 
 where a multitude of plain, fimple-hearted peo- 
 ple afiembled. When I met the fociety after 
 preaching, abundance of them crowded in : 
 many of whom, while we were wredling with 
 God in prayer, cried out with a loud and bitter 
 cry. But it was not long before fome of them 
 rejoiced, with joy unfpeakable. 
 
 Tuefday 22. I preached to a congregation of 
 a very different kind at Horncadle. John Hill 
 has done more mifchief here than a man of lar 
 greater talents can do good. By that unhappy 
 divifion of the fociety, he has opened the mouths 
 
 of 
 
[ 5 * 3 
 
 of all the gainfayers : and to complete the 
 fcandal, he and fix and twenty more have been 
 dipped ! unftable as water , thou Jlialt not excell ! 
 
 Wednef. 23. I preached at five ; in Torring- 
 tonatnine, and about two at Scotter, where the 
 poor people now enjoy great quietnefs, by means 
 of Sir N. H. about fix I preached at Ferry. 1 do 
 not chufe to preach above twice or thrice in a 
 day. But when I a;n called to do more, it is 
 all one. I find ftrength according to my need. 
 
 Thurf. 24. I rode to Epworth, and the next 
 day, through heavy rain, to Swainfleet. I fup. 
 pofed, as the rain kept many from coming, the 
 preaching-houfe would contain the congregation ; 
 but it would not. However as the door and win- 
 dows were open, 1 believe mod of them could 
 hear. And the eagernefs with which they heard 
 made me hope, they were not forgetful hearers. 
 
 Sunday 27. I rode over to Miderton, and vi- 
 fited a young woman who a year or two fince, 
 was firuck fird with deep melancholy, and foon 
 after with utter didraffion. We were quickly 
 convinced whence herdifordcr came. Let phyfi- 
 cians do all they will or can ; yet it will be 
 found in the end, that this kind goethnot out but 
 by prayer and fajling. 
 
 After preaching I haded away to Haxey, and 
 came thither before the church began. The 
 curate preached a very harmlefs fermon againft 
 the Methodids. Between one and two I preach- 
 ed atWedwood-fide, o n Behold, now is the day of 
 C 2 falvation J 
 
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 Jalvation ! And it feeraed as if all had ears to 
 hear. About four I began in the market-place 
 at Epworth, on He beheld the city, and wept over it. 
 And fuch a call I think the inhabitants of this 
 town have fcarce ever had before. 
 
 Monday 28. I preached at Thorne. Although 
 a great part of the congregation, had never heard 
 one preach under a tree before, yet they behaved 
 extremely well. Before we came to York, I was 
 thoroughly tired. But my ftrength quickly return- 
 ed : fo that after preaching to a large congre- 
 gation and meeting the fociety, I was frelher 
 than when I began. 
 
 Tuefday 29. I preached at noon in the new 
 houfe at Thirfk, almoft equal to that at Yann. 
 And why not quite, feeing they had the model 
 before their eyes, and had nothing to do but to 
 copy after it ? Is it not an amazing weaknefs, 
 that when they have the mod beautiful pattern 
 before them, all builders will affeft to mend 
 fometbing? So the je ne fcai quoi is loft and the 
 fecond building fcarce ever equals the firft. 
 
 I preached at Yarm in the evening, and the 
 next at Newcaftle. I know not to what it is ow- 
 ing, that I have felt more wearinefs this fpring, 
 than I had done before ior many years ; unlefs 
 to my fall at Chriftmas which perhaps weakened 
 the fprings of my whole machine more than 1 
 was fenftble of. 
 
 Thurfday, May x. I enjoyed a little reft. I 
 do not find the leaft change in this refpeff. I 
 
 love 
 
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 love quietnefs and filence as well as ever : but 
 if I am called into noife and tumult, all is well. 
 
 Sunday 4. The rain condrained me to preach 
 in the room, both in the morning and even- 
 ing. But it was fair at two while 1 preached 
 abroad at the Fell, where the room could not 
 contain one half of the congregation. 
 
 Tuefday 6. 1 rode to Sunderland. On Wed- 
 nefday and Thurfday evening, I preached in 
 Monk- Weremouth church. Saturday 10. I 
 fpent an agreeable hour at a Quaker’s, a man of 
 large fubdance. His fpirit put me in mind of 
 Thomas Keene. May thy lad end be like his! 
 
 Sunday 11. The weather not permitting me 
 to preach abroad, I preached in the room, morn- 
 ing and evening, and about eleven in Monk- 
 Weremouih church. In the evening fome 
 hundreds of us, folemnly renewed our covenant 
 with God, and he anfwered many, in thejoy of 
 their hearts. Mon. 12. After preaching at South- 
 fhields about noon, and at Noith-fhields in the 
 evening, I returned to Newcadle. In the fol- 
 lowing days I preached at as many of the neigh- 
 bouring places as I could: and on Monday 1 9, 
 fet out northward. About two I preached to 
 the honed; colliers at Placey, and in the even- 
 ing at Morpeth. Tuefday 20. About noon I 
 preached at Felton. There were many hearers, 
 though the wind was extremely fbarp. And 
 mod of them were attentive ; but very few 
 C 3 feemed 
 
[ <54 ] 
 
 Teemed to under/tand any thing of the matter. 
 I preacbea at Alnwick in the evening. Wed- 
 nefday 21. We fpent an hour in the caflle and 
 the gardens which the duke is inlarging and 
 improving daily, and turning into a little para- 
 dife. What pity, that he muff leave all thefe, and 
 die like a common man ! 
 
 Thurfday 22. At eleven I preached in the 
 ftreet at Belford, fifteen miles beyond Alnwick. 
 The hearers were ferioufly attentive, and a few 
 Teemed to underhand what was fpoken. Be« 
 tween fix and feven I preached in the Town- 
 hall at Berwick. I had an uncommon liberty 
 in fpeaking, and a folemn awe fat on the faces 
 of all the hearers. Is God again vifiting this 
 poor, barren place ! 
 
 Friday 23. When I came to Old-Camus, I 
 found notice had been given of my preaching 
 about a mile off. So I took horfe without de- 
 lay, and rode to Copperfmith, where the con- 
 gregation was waiting. I fpoke as plain as I 
 pofiibly could. But very few appeared to be at 
 all affe&ed It feems to be with them, as with 
 mofl in the north; they knoxv every thing, and 
 fed nothing. 
 
 I had defigned to preach abroad at Dunbar 
 in the evening. But the rain drove us into 
 the houfe. It was for good. I now had a full 
 ftroke at their hearts ; and I think fome felt 
 themfelves Tinners. 
 
 Saturday 24. In the afternoon, notice having 
 
 been 
 
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 been given a week before, I went to the room 
 at Preifon-pans. And I had it all to myfelf, 
 neither man, woman nor child offered to look 
 me in the face. So I ordered a chair to be 
 placed in the flreet. Then forty or fifty crept 
 together. But they were mere flocks and floncs ; 
 no more concerned, than if I had talked Greek. 
 In the evening I preached in the new- room at 
 Edinburgh, a large and commodious building. 
 
 Monday 26. I fpent fome hours at the meet- 
 ing of the national aJJ'embly. I am very far from 
 being of Mr. Whitefield’s mind, who greatly 
 commends the folemnity of this meeting. I 
 have feen few lefs folemn ; I was extremely 
 fhocked at the behaviour of many of the mem- 
 bers. Had any preacher behaved fo at our con- 
 ference, he would have had no more place 
 among us. 
 
 Wednefday 28. I preached at Leith, and 
 fpoke exceeding plain. A few received the 
 truth in the love thereof. 
 
 Sunday, June 1. Many of the miniflers were 
 prefent at feven, with a large and ferious con- 
 gregation. In the afternoon I heard a thun- 
 dering fermon in the new kirk, occafioned by 
 Mr. Jardin, a minifler’s dropping down dead 
 in the affembly a day or two before. I preach- 
 ed in the evening on The Jpirit and the bride fay , 
 Come! A few, I truft, clofed with the invita- 
 tion. 
 
 Monday 2. I came to Dundee wet enough. 
 
 1 C $ But 
 
[ 5 6 ] 
 
 But it cleared up in the evening; lo that I 
 preached abroad, to a large congregation ; many 
 of whom attended in the morning. Tuefdav 3. 
 The congregation was dill larger in the evening ; 
 but on Wednelday the rain kept us in the houfe. 
 l'hurfday 5. It being fair, we had a more numer- 
 ous congregation than ever ; to whom, after 
 preaching, I took occafion to repeat mod of the 
 plaufible objeftions which had been made to us 
 in Scotland. I then fhewed our reafons for the 
 things which had been objected to us : and all 
 feemed to be throughly fatisfie d. 
 
 *The fum of what I fpokewas this; 
 
 I love plain-dealing. Do not you ? I will ufe it 
 now. Bear with me. 
 
 I hang out no falfe colours, but fliew you all I 
 am, all I intend, all I do. 
 
 I am a member of the church of England: but 
 I love good men of every church. 
 
 My ground is, the bible. Yea, I am a bible- 
 bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and 
 fmall. 
 
 Therefore, 1. I always ufe a Jhort, private 
 prayer , when I attend the public fervice of God. 
 'Do not you ? Why do you not ? Is not this ac- 
 cording to the bible ? 
 
 2. I Jland whenever I ling the praife of God in 
 public. Does not the bible give you plain prece- 
 dents for this ? 
 
 3. I always kneel before the Lord my Maker, 
 when I pray in public. 
 
 4.I 
 
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 4. I generally in public ufe the Lord's prayer ; 
 becaufe Chrift has taught me, when I pray to 
 fay — 
 
 I advife every preacher connedled with me, 
 whether in England or Scotland, herein to tread 
 in my heps. 
 
 Friday 6. We went on to Aberdeen, about fe- 
 venty meafured miles. The congregation in the 
 evening was larger than the ufual one at Edin- 
 burgh. And the number of thofe who attended 
 in the morning, (hewed they were not all curious 
 hearers. 
 
 Sunday 8. Knowing no reafon why we (hould 
 make God’s day the fhorteft of the feven, I de- 
 filed Jofeph Thompfon to preach at five. At 
 eight I preached myfelf. In the afternoon I heard 
 a (Irong, clofe feimon, at Old Aberdeen : and 
 afterward preached in the College-kirk, to a very 
 genteel, and yet ferious congregation. I then 
 opened and enforced the way of hohnefs, at New 
 Aberdeen, on a numerous congregation. Mon- 
 day 9. I kept a watch-night, and explained to 
 abundance of genteel people, One thing is need- 
 ful: a great number of whom would not go away, 
 till after the noon of night. 
 
 Tuefday to. I rode over to Sir Archibald 
 Grant’s. The church was pretty well filled. And 
 I fpoke exceeding plain. Yet the hearers did not 
 appear to be any more affefled than the (lone- 
 walls. 
 
 Wednefday 11 . 1 returned to Aberdeen, where 
 
 C 5 many 
 
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 many of the people were much alive to God. 
 With thefe our labour has not been in vain. And 
 they are worth all the pains we have taken in 
 Scotland. 
 
 Friday 13. We reached Brechin, a little be- 
 fore twelve. Quickly after I began preaching in 
 the llelh-market, on the one thing needful It be- 
 ing the fair-day, the town was full of ftrangers : 
 and perhaps fome of them were found of him 
 they fought not. I preached in the evening at 
 Dundee, with greater liberty than ever before. 
 Saturday 14. It rained from the moment we fet 
 cut, till (about one) we came to King-horn. Find- 
 ing the boat was not to move till four o’clock, I 
 purpofedto hire a pinnace. But the wind fpring- 
 ing up fair, I went into the large boat. Quickly 
 it fell calm again : fo that we did not get over 
 till pall feven. 
 
 Sunday 15. Our room was very warm in the 
 afternoon, through the multitude of people: a 
 great number of whom were people of fafhion, 
 with many minifters. I fpoke to them with the 
 utmoft plainnefs: and I believe not in vain. For 
 we had fuch a congregation at five in the morn- 
 ing, as I never faw at Edinburgh before. * It is 
 fcarce pofiible to fpeak too plain in England: 
 but it is fcarce pofiible to fpeak plain enough in 
 Scotland And if you do not, you lofe all your 
 labour : you plow upon the fand. 
 
 Monday 16 . 1 took a view of one of the great- 
 
 eft 
 
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 eft natural curiofitles in the kingdom ; what is 
 called Arthur’s Seat, a frnall, rocky eminence, 
 fix or feven yards acrofs, on the top of an ex- 
 ceeding high mountain, not far from Edinburgh. 
 The profpeff from the top of the caftle is large : 
 but it is nothing in comparifon of this. In the 
 evening we had another Sunday’s congregation ; 
 who feemed more affefted than the day before. 
 Tuefday 17. It rained much; yet abundance of 
 people came : and again God made bare his 
 arm. I can now leave Edinburgh with com- 
 fort : for I have fully delivered my own foul. 
 
 Wednefday 18. I fet out for Glafgow. In the 
 afternoon the rain poured down, fo that we 
 were glad to take Ihelter in a little houfe, where 
 I foon began to talk with our hoft’s daughter,, 
 eighteen or nineteen years old. But to my fur- 
 prize I found her as ignorant of the nature of re- 
 ligion as an Hottentot. And many fuch I have 
 found in Scotland ; able to read, nay and repeat 
 the catechifm : but wholly unacquainted with 
 true religion, yea and all genuine morality. 
 This, evening we were in^the houfe: but the- 
 next I preached abroad, to many more than the 
 houfe could contain. On Friday the number was 
 greatly increafed ; but much more on Saturday. 
 I then enlarged upon communion with God , as the 
 only real, fcriptural religion. And I believe 
 many felt, that with all their orthodoxy , they had 
 no religion Hill. 
 
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 * Whau 
 
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 * What a difference there is between the fo* 
 ciety here, and that at Dundee ? There are about 
 fixty members there, and fcarce more than fix 
 fcriptural believers. Here are feventy-four mem- 
 bers, and near thirty among them lively, zealous’ 
 believers ; one of whom was juftified thirty years 
 ago, and another of them two and forty. And fe- 
 veral of them have been for many years rejoic- 
 ing in God their Saviour. 
 
 Sunday 22. At feven I was obliged to preach 
 abroad, and the word funk deep into the hearers. 
 I almoff wondered at myfelf for fpeaking fo plain, 
 and wondered how they could bear it. It is the 
 Lord’s doing ! In the afternoon Mr. Gillies was 
 unufually clofe and convincing. At five I 
 preached on, 0 that thou, haji known , at leajl in 
 this thy clay, the things that make for thy peace ! I 
 almofl defpaired of making the whole congrega- 
 tion hear ; but by their behaviour it feemed they 
 did. In the clofe I enlarged upon their prejudi- 
 ces, and explained myfelf with regard to moll of 
 them. Shame, concern, and a mixture of vari- 
 ous pafiions, were painted on mod faces. And 
 I perceived the Scots, if you touch but the 
 right key, receive as lively imprelTions as the 
 Englifh. 
 
 Monday 23. We rode in a mild, cool day to 
 Thorny-hill, about fixty (meafured) miles from 
 Glafgow. * Here I met with Mr. Knox’s hif- 
 tory of the church of Scotland. And could any 
 
 man 
 
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 man wonder, if the members of it were more 
 fierce, four, and bitter of fpirit than fomeof them 
 are? For what a pattern have they before them ! 
 I know it is commonly faid, “ The work to be 
 done needed fiich a fpirit.” Not fo : the work of 
 God does not, cannot need the work of the devil 
 to forward it. And a calm even fpirit goes through 
 rough work far better than a furious one. Al- 
 though therefore God did ufe at the time of the 
 reformation, four, over-bearing, paffionate men, 
 yet he did not ufe them becaufe they were fuch, 
 but notwithflanding they were fo. And there 
 is no doubt, he would have ufed them much 
 more, had they been of an humbler and milder 
 fpirit. 
 
 Tuefday 24. Before eight we reached Dum- 
 fries, and after a fhort bait we pufhed on, in 
 hopes of reaching Solway-frith, before the fea 
 was come in. Defigning to call at an inn by the 
 Frith fide, we inquired the wav, and were di- 
 refled to leave the main road, and go firait to the 
 houfe, which we faw before us. In ten minutes 
 Duncan Wright was embogged. However the 
 horfe plunged on, and got through. I was in- 
 clined to turn back. But Duncan telling me, I 
 needed only go a little to the left, I did fo, and 
 funk at once to my horfe ’s fhoulders. He fprung 
 up twice, and twice fung again, each time deeper 
 than before. At the third plunge he threw me on 
 one fide, and we both made fhift to fcramble out. 
 
 I was 
 
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 1 was covered with fine, foft mud, from my feet 
 to the crown of my head : yet, bleffed be God, 
 not hurt at all. But we could not crofs till be- 
 tween feven and eight o’clock. An honefl man 
 croffed with us, who went two miles out of his 
 way, to guide us over the fands to Sktlborneze : 
 where we found a little, clean houfe and paffeda 
 comfortable night. 
 
 Wednefday 25. We rode on to Whitehaven. 
 Here I fpent the reft of the week. Sunday 29. 
 
 I appointed the children to meet me ; and defired 
 Mr. Atlay to meet them for the time to come. 
 At one, Robert Williams preached in the mar- 
 ket-place, to fome thoufands of people, all quiet 
 and attentive. About five I preached near the 
 town to a willing multitude, many of whom 
 Teemed to be cut to the heart. 
 
 Monday 30. About two we reached Penrith. 
 Two of our friends guided us thence to Appleby, 
 a county-town worthy of Ireland, containing at 
 leaft, five and twenty houfes. I was defired to 
 preach here; but being very wet, I chofe to ride 
 on to Arthur Johnfon’s, near Brough. 
 
 I would willingly have preached, (though we 
 had lode upwards of feventy miles) but it was a 
 lone houfe, and there was not time to gather a 
 congregation. Tuefday, July 1. The neighbours 
 foon came together, to whom I preached at fe- 
 ven, and then rode on to Barnard-caftle, and met 
 the ftewards of the focieties, greatly increafed fince 
 I was here before. At fix I preached in an open 
 
 fpace, 
 
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 fpace, adjoining to the preaching-houfe. As the 
 militia were in the town, the far greater part of 
 them attended, with a large congregation from 
 town and country. It rained moft of the time I 
 was fpeaking : but I believe hardly fix perfons 
 went away. At the love-feaft which followed, fe- 
 veral fpoke their experience, with all fimpli- 
 city. One poor mourner was fet at liberty, and 
 many greatly comforted. 
 
 Wednefday 2. About noon I preached in 
 Teefdale, and in Wardale at fix in the evening. 
 Here a poor woman was brought to us, who had 
 been difordered feveral years, and was now rav- 
 ing-mad. She curfed and blafphemed in a terri- 
 ble manner, and could not Hand or fit fiill for a 
 moment. However her hufband conftrained 
 her to come to the place where I was going to 
 preach. And he held her there by main ftrength, 
 although fhe fhrieked in the moft dreadful man- 
 ner. But in a quarter of an hour, fhe left off 
 fhrieking, and fat motionlefs and filent, till fhe 
 began crying to God, which fhe continued to 
 do, almoft without intermiffion, till we left 
 her. 
 
 Thurfday 3. We rode through a pleafant vale 
 to Woolfingham, where I began finging near the 
 middle of the town. A few foon gathered toge- 
 ther, and their number increafed all the time I 
 was preaching. Only one young man behaved 
 amifs, ftriving to divert them that was near him. 
 
 But 
 
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 But they would not be diverted: fo that after a 
 while he grew ferious too. 
 
 In the evening we came once more to New- 
 cattle. On Saturday I rode to Sunderland : and 
 at eight the next morning preached at the eatt: 
 end of the town, to a huge multitude, the greater 
 part of whom had little thought of God or devil. 
 Thence we returned to Gatefhead-fell, where 
 was a multitude of another kind, ripe for the 
 whole gofpel. Here therefore, as well as at the 
 Garth- heads about five, I enlarged on thofe fo- 
 lemn words, To day, if you will hear his voice , 
 harden not your hearts . 
 
 Monday 7. I rode to Durham, and preached 
 about noon on our Lord's lamentation over Je- 
 rufalem. In the evening, the rain hindering me 
 from preaching in the ttreet, at Hartlepool, I had 
 a large congregation in the Aflembly-room. 
 Many of them were prefen t again in the morning, 
 and feemed almojl per fuaded to be Chriftians. 
 
 Tuefday 8. While I was preaching at Stockton, 
 a drunken man made fome ditturbance. I turned 
 and fpoke ttrongly to him. He ttood reproved, 
 and lifiened with much attention. Wednefday 9. 
 We had our quarterly meeting at Yartn. The fo- 
 cieties in this circuit increafe : that is, among 
 the poor; for the rich, generally fpeaking, care 
 for none of thefe things. 
 
 Thurfdav 10. About two in the afternoon I 
 preached at Potto, and in the evening at Hutton- 
 
 rudbey, 
 
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 rudbey. Here is the largeft focieiy in thefe parts, 
 and the nioft alive to God. After fpending fome 
 time with them all, I met thofe apart, who be- 
 lieve they are faved from fin. * I was agreeably 
 furprized. I think not above two, out of fixteen 
 or feventeen whom I examined, have loft the 
 diredl witnejs of that falvation, ever fince they 
 experienced it. 
 
 Friday 11, I preached at five on The Spies, 
 who brought up an evil report on the good land. 
 I breakfafted at — — ’s and met with a very re- 
 markable family. He himfelf, his wife, and 
 three of his daughters, are a pattern to all round 
 about them. About nine I preached in the new 
 houfe at Stokefly : but it would by no means 
 contain the congregation. I came to Gifhorough, 
 a little before twelve, and found notice had been 
 given of my preaching there. So having no 
 time to lofe, I began without delay, in the ftreet, 
 where I alighted. I had a ferious congregation 
 in a few minutes, and did not at all repent of my 
 labour. After riding on to Whitby, and preach- 
 ing at feven, I was no more tired than when I 
 rofe in the morning. 
 
 Sunday 13. I preached at feven in the room ; 
 at one in the main-ftreet on the other fide 
 the water. A vaft multitude quickly ran toge- 
 ther, and were deeply attentive. At five I 
 preached in the new market place, to a ff ill 
 larger congregation. A great number of them 
 
 attended 
 
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 attended at five in the morning, and we had a 
 folemn parting. 
 
 About one I preached in the little fquare at 
 Robinhood’s-bay, and rode on to Scarborough. 
 We were met near the town by a furious thun- 
 der fhower, but it was quickly over. And a fair 
 evening following, I preached in the garden, to 
 a tolerably ferious congregation. 
 
 Tuefday 1^. I had much converfation with 
 Mr. C. whom fome had again taken true pains to 
 prejudice. I think he is once more fet right, but 
 fear, it will not continue long. It rained hard at 
 fix ; but was fair at feven. Jufl as 1 ended my 
 fermon the rain began again. 
 
 Wednefday 16. About ten I reached Middle- 
 ton, near Pickering. The church was pretty well 
 filled. I preached on part of the fecond lelfon, 
 John iv. particularly the 24th verfe. And 
 all the congregation feemed earneft to know, 
 how they might zvorjhip God, in Jpinl and in 
 truth. 
 
 In the evening moft of the congregation at 
 Mahon were of another kind. But a whole roop 
 of the Oxford-Blues, who flood together, and 
 were deeply ferious, kept them in awe. So that 
 all behaved decently, and many of the foldiers 
 were prefent again in the morning. 
 
 Thurfday 17. In the way to Beverly, I called 
 upon Sir Charles Hotham, and fpent a comforta- 
 ble hour. I preached before the time appointed 
 at Hull, by which means the room was but mo- 
 derately 
 
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 derately filled. It was near full at five in the 
 morning: at noon I believe few were unaffe&ed. 
 When we took horfe in the afternoon, it was 
 quite calm, and the fun was extremely fcorch- 
 ing. But the wind foon role and brought on the 
 clouds : fo we had aplealant ride to Beverley. I 
 preached at fix in an houfe as warm as an oven; 
 and the people were tolerably attentive. Who 
 knows but we may find again after many days , 
 the bread we are now cafing upon the waters ? 
 
 Saturday 19. I took a view of Beverly-minller, 
 fuch a parifh-church as has fcarce its fellow in 
 England. It is a moll beautiful as well as llately 
 building, both within and without, and -is kept 
 more nicely clean than any cathedral, which I 
 have feen in the kingdom. But where will it be, 
 when the earth is burnt up, and the elements melt 
 with fervent heat? About one I preached at Pock- 
 lington, (though my llrenglh was much ex- 
 haulledj and in the evening at York. 
 
 Sunday 20. After preaching at eight, I went 
 to St. Saviourgate church. Towards the clofe of 
 the prayer, the redlor fent the fexton to tell me, 
 “ The pulpit was at my fervice.’ - I preached on 
 the conclufion of the gofpel for the day, A Jot 
 every one that faith unto me, Lord , Lord,fhall en- 
 ter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the 
 will of my Father which is in heaven. I did not fee 
 one perfon laugh or fmile, though we had a molt 
 elegant congregation. 
 
 Wednefday 
 
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 vVednefday 23. I went on toTadcafter. Here 
 
 Mr. J m had once a far larger fociety than 
 
 ours : but it is now fhrunk into nothing : ours 
 mean time is continually increafing. In the 
 eveningrich and poor flocked together, to whom 
 I explained, IVe know that wt art oj God : namely, 
 by the Jpint which he hath given us : by the wit- 
 nefs of the fpirit, and by the Iruit confirming 
 that witnefs. 
 
 Thurfday 24, I preached at Pately-bridge. 
 Such a congregation, both for number and feri- 
 oufnefs, I have not feen fince we left Newcaftle. 
 As it rained, I defired the men to put on their 
 hats ; but in two or three minutes they pulled 
 them off again, and feemed to mind nothing but 
 how they might know the grace of our Lord Jefus 
 Chrifl. 
 
 Friday 25. We rode toSkipton in Craven. I 
 defigned to preach in the market place: but the 
 rain prevented. So I flood near Mr. Garforth’s 
 houfe, where many were under fhelter. But 
 many remained without, feeming not to think 
 whether it rained or not. Will all thefe be bar- 
 ren and unfruitful? 
 
 Saturday 26. I preached at Adlingham about 
 nine, and at Guifelev in the evening. Sunday 
 27. As Baleden church would not near contain 
 the congregation, after the prayers were ended I 
 came out into the church-vard, both morning 
 and afternoon. The' wind was extremely high, 
 and blew in my face all the time : yet I believe 
 
 all 
 
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 all the people could hear. But at Bradford 
 there was fo huge a- multitude, and the rain fo 
 damped my voice that many in the fkirts of the 
 congregation could not hear diftin&ly. They 
 have juft built a preaching-houfe. Fifty-four feet 
 fquare, the largeft o&ogon we have in England. 
 And it is the firft ol the kind where the roof is 
 built with common fenfe, rifmgonly a third of its 
 breadth : yet it is as firm as any in England ; 
 nor does it at all hurt the walls. Why then does 
 any roof rife higher ? Only through want of fkill, 
 or want ofhonefty, in the builder. 
 
 * Tuefday 29. I preached at Coin. And here 
 I found one whom I had fent for, feveral years 
 ago. She lives two miles from Coin, and 
 is of an unblamable behaviour. Her name is 
 Ann A — n. She is now in the twenty-fixth 
 
 I year of her age. The account {he gives is as 
 follows. “ 1 cannot now remember the parti- 
 culars, which I told Mr. Grimfhaw from time 
 to time. But I well remember, that from the 
 time I was about four years old, after I was in 
 bed, I ufed to fee feveral perfons walking up 
 and down the room. They all ufed to come 
 ■ very near the bed, and look upon me, but fay 
 nothing. Some of them looked very fad, and 
 fome looked very chearful. Some feemed pleaf- 
 ed, others very angry: and thefe fra) ed me fore. 
 Efpecially a man and a woman of our own pa- 
 i rifh, who feemed fighting, and died foot) after. 
 None of them fpake to me but a lad about fix- 
 
 teen, 
 
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 teen, who a week before died of the fmall-pox. 
 I faid to him, “ You are dead How did you 
 get out of the other place?” He faid, “ Eafily 
 enough.” I faid, “ Nay, I think, if I w as there, 
 I (hould not get out fo eafily.” He looked ex- 
 ceeding angry. I was frighted, and began to 
 pray, and he vanifhed away. If it was ever fo 
 dark, when any of them appeared, there was 
 light all round them. This continued till I was 
 fixteen or feventeen. But it frighted me more 
 and more. And I was troubled, becaufe people 
 talked about me : and many told me, I was 
 a witch. This made me cry earnefily to God 
 to take it away from me. In a week or two it 
 was all at an end. And 1 have feen nothing 
 fince.” 
 
 In the evening I preached near the preaching- 
 houfeat Paddiham, and ftrongly infilled on com- 
 munion with God, as the only religion that 
 would avail us. At the clofe of the fermon came 
 Mr. M. his long, white beard, (hewed that his 
 prefent diforder was of fome continuance. In all 
 other refpecls he was quite fenfible : but he 
 told me, with much concern, “You can have no 
 “ place in heaven without — a beard ! Therefore 
 “ I beg let yours grow immediately. 5 
 
 Wednefday 30. I rode to Rofendale, which 
 notwithllanding its name is little elfe than a chain 
 of mountains. The rain in the evening obliged 
 me to preach in the new houfe, near a village 
 called New Church. As many as could crowded 
 
 in. 
 
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 in, and many more flood at the door. But many 
 were couftained to go away. Thurfday 31. I 
 preached at Bacup, and then rode on to Hepton- 
 ftall. The tall mountain, on which it ftands, is 
 quite fteep and abrupt, only where the roads are 
 made : and the deep valleys that furround it, 
 as well as the Tides of the mountains beyond, 
 are well cloathed with grafs, corn and trees. I 
 preached with great enlargement of heart, on 
 Nozu is the day of falvation. The renegade 
 Methodifls, firfl turning Calvinifts, then Anabap- 
 tifts, made much confufion here for a feafon. 
 But as they now have taken themfelves away, 
 the poor people are in peace again, 
 
 Friday Augufl 2. I rode to Ewood. The lafl 
 time I was here, young Mr. Grimfhaw received 
 us in the fame hearty manner as his father ufed 
 to do. But he too is now gone into eternity! 
 So in a few years the family is extinft ! I preach- 
 ed at one in a meadow near the houfe to a nu- 
 merous congregaiioni And we fang with one 
 heart, 
 
 “ Let ftcknefs bl aft and death devour, 
 
 “ If heaven will recompenfe our pains : 
 
 “ Perifh the grafs and fade the flower, 
 
 “ Since firm the word of God remains.” 
 
 In the evening I preached at Halifax. When I 
 began the fun wasintenfely hot. But quickly the 
 clouds covered him. 
 
 Sunday 
 

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 Sund. 3. When the prayers at Haworth were 
 ended, I preached from a little fcatfold on the 
 fouth fide of the church, on thofe words in th§> 
 gofpel. 0 that thou hadjl known the things that be- 
 long unto thy peace ! The communicants alone (a 
 fight which has not been feen fince Mr. Grim- 
 fhaw’s death; filled the church. In the afternoon 
 the congregation was fuppofed to be the largeft 
 which had ever been there. But lirength was 
 given me in proportion ; fo that I believe all 
 could hear. 
 
 Monday 4. At One I preached at Bingley, 
 but with an heavy heart, finding fo many of the 
 Method ifts here, as well as at Haworth perverted 
 by the Anabaptifis. I fee clearer and clearer, none 
 will keep to 11s, unlefsthey keep to the church. 
 Whoever feparate from the church, will feparate 
 from the Methodifls. In the afternoon I went to 
 Otley. But the town feemed to be run mad. Such 
 noife, hurry, drunkennefs, rioting, confufion.I 
 know not when I have met with before. It was 
 their feaft-day ! A feafl: of Bacchus, or Venus, 
 or Belial ? O fhame to aChriftian country ! How- 
 ever, both the fmall and great rabble were fo en- 
 gaged, that they had no leifure to rnoleft us : fo 
 that I preached to a large, congregation under 
 the hill with perfecl quietnefs. 
 
 Tuefday 5. I rode to Bradford. V edneiday 6. 
 I preached at one in Great Gummerfal ; in the 
 evening at Dewfbury. d he congregation was as 
 large as at Bradford, and as attentive. Although 
 
 a few 
 
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 a few years fince the people of Daw-Green were 
 as eminently favage and irreligious, as even the 
 colliers of Kingfwood. 
 
 Thurfday 7. We had as hot a day as moftl 
 have known in Georgia. However, about noon I 
 rode to Harbury : but it was impraHicable to 
 preach abroad. So we retired into the new houfe : 
 but this too was as hot as an oven. Some of the 
 people behaved exceeding ill at fir fl : but it was 
 foonover. In a few minutes the whole congrega- 
 tion was as ferious and attentive as that at Daw- 
 Green. 
 
 Friday 8. I rode over to Huddersfield. The 
 church, though large was exceeding hot, through 
 the multitude of people : on whom I inforced 
 St Paul’s words, God forbid that I Jhould glory , 
 Javein the ciofscj out Lord JefusChriJl. Flow 
 we fhould have rode back, I knew not : but 
 that the wind which was in our face as we came, 
 was again in our face as we returned. At Birfial 
 we found many of our brethren from various 
 parts. One of them was mentioning a remarkable 
 cafe. David Prince, of Thorner, near Leeds, had 
 been {tone-blind for many years, and was without 
 God in the world, till pad fourfcore. At about 
 eighty-one he received remiflion of fins, and 
 from that hour he never loft the fenfe of it. 
 When he was aflced, how he did? Flis anfwer 
 was, “ happier and happier.” In the eighty-fifth 
 year of his age, his fpirit returned to God. 
 
 Sunday 10. After Mr. Eaftwood had read 
 
 Vol. XXXII. D prayers 
 
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 prayers I came out into the church-yard, and 
 preached to four-times as many as the church 
 could contain, on Are not Abana and Pharphar 
 better than all the waters of Ifrael ? About one I 
 preached at Daw-Green. I judged the congre- 
 gation clofely wedged together to extend forty 
 yards one way, and about an hundred the other. 
 Now fuppofe five to hand in a yard fqu3re, they 
 would amount to twenty thoufand people. I began 
 preaching at Leeds between five and fix, to juft 
 fuch another congregation. This was the hardeft 
 day’s work I have had fince I left London ; 
 being obliged to fpeak at each place from the be- 
 ginning to the end, to the utmoft extent of my 
 voice. But my ftrength was as my day. 
 
 Tuefday 12. Our conference began, and ended 
 on Friday evening. An happier conference we 
 never had, nor a more profitable one. It was 
 both begun and ended in love, and with a fo- 
 Jemn fenfe of the prefence of God. 
 
 Sunday 17. After preaching in Leeds at feven, 
 
 1 rode to Birftal, and heard a found, ufeful fer- 
 rnon, on Come unto me, all ye that labour and are 
 heavy laden. At One I preached to an immenfe 
 multitude, on Come, Lord Jfus ! I then let out 
 for Rotherham. But the next day I turned off 
 from the road I had defigned to take, and going 
 on to Leicester that night, on Wednefday reach- 
 ed London. 
 
 It was at the earnefr requeP of — , whofe heart 
 God has turned again, without any expectation of 
 
 mine, 
 
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 mine, that I came hither fo fuddenly. And if no 
 other good refult from it, but our firm union 
 with Mr. Whitefield, it is an abundant recom- 
 pence for my labour. My brother and I conferred 
 with him every day : and let the honourable 
 men do what they pleafe, we refolved by the 
 grace of God, to go on hand in hand, through 
 honour and difhonour. 
 
 Sunday 24. The chapel was fufficiently crowd- 
 ed, both morning and afternoon. And God 
 was eminently prefent. In the evening I went to 
 Brentford, and faw a remarkable monument of 
 mercy : a man, who in the full career of fin, 
 was fo hurt by a fall, that there was no hope of 
 his life. But after deep repentance, God broke 
 in upon his foul, and gave him a better hope. So 
 that he is now little concerned about life or death, 
 but praifes God all the day long. Monday 2 ^. 
 We fet out early from Brentford, and reached 
 Bath on Tuefday in the afternoon. 
 
 Many werefuot a little furprized in the evening 
 at feeing me in the countefs of H's. chapel. The 
 congregation was not only large butferious; 
 and I fully delivered my own foul. So I am in 
 no concern, whether I preach there again, or no. 
 I have no choice concerning it. 
 
 Wednefday 2y. I rode to Bnftol, and the next 
 day delivered the management of Kingfwood- 
 houfe, to ftewards on whom I could depend. So 
 I have call an heavy load off my fhoulders. 
 Bleffed be God for able and faithful men, who 
 D 2 vvill 
 
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 was either hurt or frighted, not many knowing 
 any thing of the matter. 
 
 Wednefday 3. I rode to Medros, where there 
 was laft year the mod lively fociety in Cornwall. 
 But they are decreafed both in number and 
 ftrength ; many who were then flrong in the 
 Lord being now weak and faint. However we 
 had a deeply ferious congregation in the evening 
 and 3 remarkable bleffing at the meeting of the 
 fociety. 
 
 Thurfday 4. At noon I preached in Truro. I 
 was'in hopes, when Mr. Walker died, the enmity 
 in thole who were called his people would have 
 died alfo. But it is not fo. 1 hey hill look upon 
 us as rank heretics, and will have no fellowfhip 
 with 11s. In the evening I preached at Penryn in 
 the main-ftreet, at the door of one of die chief 
 gentlemen in the town. I never faw fuch a con- 
 gregation here before. And all feemed to hear 
 as for life. 
 
 Friday 5. I preached near Hellion, to an ex- 
 ceeding large and ferious congregation. What a 
 furpriftng change is wrought here alfo, within a 
 few years ! Where a Methodill preacher could 
 hardly go through the ftreet, without a fhower of 
 Hones. 
 
 Saturday 6. At one, I began preaching in a 
 meadow adjoining to Penzance. The whole con- 
 gregation behaved well. The old bitternefs is 
 gone. And perhaps, had it not been maiket-day, 
 I might have had a quiet hearing in the market- 
 place. 
 
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 place. In the evening I preached at Newlin. 
 Small rain fell all the time. But none went away. 
 
 Sunday 7. At eight I preached in Moufehole, 
 a large village fonth-weft from Newlin. Thence 
 I went to Beryan church : and as foon as the fer- 
 vice was ended, preached near the church- 
 yard, to a numerous congregation. Juft after I 
 began, I faw a gentleman before me, fhaking 
 his whip, and vehemently ftriving to fay fome- 
 thing. But he was abundantly too warm, to fay 
 any thing intelligibly. So, after walking a 
 while to and fro, he wifely took horfe and rode 
 away. 
 
 The multitude of people atSt.Juft conftrained 
 me to preach abroad, though it rained the whole 
 time. But this did not difcourage the congrega- 
 tion, who not only ftayed till I had concluded, 
 but were not in hafte to go away then ; many 
 ft ill hovering about the place. 
 
 Tuefday 9. In riding to St. Ives, I called on 
 one with whom I ufed to lodge, two or three 
 and twenty years ago, Alice Daniel at Rofemar- 
 gay. Her fons are all gone from her : and fhe 
 has but one daughter left, who is always ill. Her 
 hufband is dead. And fhe can no longer read 
 her bible : for Die is ftone-blind. Yet (lie mur- 
 murs at nothing, but chearfully waits till her ap- 
 pointed time Dial 1 come. How many of thefa 
 jewels may lie hid up and down ? Forgotten of 
 men, but precious in the fight of God ! 
 
 In the evening I preached at St. Ives, a little 
 
 D 4 
 
 aoove 
 
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 was either hurt or frighted, not many knowing 
 any thing of the matter. 
 
 Wednefday 3. I rode to Medros, where there 
 was lafl year the moft lively fociety in Cornwall. 
 But they are decreafed both in number and 
 ftrength ; many who were then ftrong in the 
 Lord being now weak and faint. However we 
 had a deeply ferious congregation in the evening 
 and a remarkable bleffing at the meeting of the 
 fociety. 
 
 Thurfday 4. At noon I preached in Truro. I 
 was’in hopes, when Mr. W alker died, the enmity 
 in thole who were called his people would have 
 died alfo. But it is not fo. They hill look upon 
 us as rank heretics, and will have no feliowfhip 
 with 11s. In the evening I preached at Penryn in 
 the main-ftreet, at the door of one of the chief 
 gentlemen in the town. I never faw fuel; a con- 
 gregation here before. And all feemed to hear 
 as for life. 
 
 Friday 5. I preached near Hellion, to an ex- 
 ceeding large and ferious congregation. WTiat a 
 furpriftng change is wrought here alfo, within a 
 few years ! Where a Methodilt preacher could 
 hardly go through the ftreet, without a Ihower of 
 Hones. 
 
 Saturday 6. At one, I began preaching in a 
 meadow adjoining to Penzance, d he whole con- 
 gregation behaved well. The old bitternefs is 
 gone. And perhaps, had it not been maiket-day, 
 I might have had a quiet hearing in the market- 
 place. 
 
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 piace. In the evening I preached at Newlin. 
 Small rain fell all the time. But none went away. 
 
 Sunday 7. At eight I preached in Moufeliole, 
 a large village fouth-weft from Newlin. Thence 
 I went to Beryan church : and asfoon as the fer- 
 vice was ended, preached near the church- 
 yard, to a numerous congregation. Juft after I 
 began, I faw a gentleman before me, fhaking 
 his whip, and vehemently ftriving to fay fome- 
 thing. But he was abundantly too warm, to fay 
 any thing intelligibly. So, after walking a 
 while to and fro, he wifely took horfe and rode 
 away. 
 
 The multitude of people atSt.Juft conftrained 
 me to preach abroad, though it rained the whole 
 time. But this did not difcourage the congrega- 
 tion, who not only ftayed till I had concluded, 
 but weie not in hafte to go away then ; many 
 fl ill hovering about the place. 
 
 Tuefday 9. In riding to St. Ives, I called on 
 one with whom I ufed to lodge, two or three 
 and twenty years ago, Alice Daniel at Rofemar- 
 gay. Her fons are all gone from her : and fire 
 has but one daughter left, who is always ill. Her 
 hufband is dead. And fhe can no longer read 
 her bible : for fhe is ftone-blind. Yet fire mur. 
 murs at nothing, but chearfully waits till her ap- 
 pointed time fhall come. How many of thefe 
 jewels may lie hid up and down ? Forgotten of 
 men, but precious in the fight of God 1 
 
 In the evening I preached at St. Ives, a little 
 
 D 4 
 
 aoove 
 
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 above the town, to the largefl congregation I 
 ever faw there. Indeed nearly the whole town 
 feems convinced of the truth, yea and ajmoft 
 perfuaded to be Chriflians. 
 
 Wednefday 10. 1 preached at Lelant about 
 one ; but the rain drove us into the houfe. And 
 at St. Ives, all I could do was to preach to as 
 many as the houfe would hold, and a few at the 
 door. But the next evenirg I flood in the mea- 
 dow’ again, and inforced thofe folemn words. 
 Come, Lord JeJ'u.% ! 
 
 Friday 12. I rode to St. Hilary’s, and in the 
 evening preached near the new houfe, on 
 Awake thou that Jleepejl ! In returning to my 
 lodging, it being dark, my horfe was juft flep- 
 ping into a tin-pit, when an honeft man caught 
 him by the bridle, and turned his head the other 
 way. 
 
 Saturday 13. I preached at noon in the new 
 houfe in Crowan, it being a very flormy day. 
 But I knew’ not what to do at Redruth in the 
 evening : the houfe was far too fmall : and the 
 wind was exceeding high, and brought on fre- 
 quent and heavy fhowers. However I chofe 
 the molt convenient part of the flreet. And tve 
 had but one fhort fhow'er till I concluded. 
 
 Sunday 14. I preached in St. Agnes at eight. 
 The congregation in Redruth at one was the 
 largeft I ever had feen there ; but fmall, com- 
 pared to that which affembled at five, in the na- 
 tural amphitheatre at Gwenap, far the finefl I 
 
 know 
 
[ ] 
 
 know in the kingdom. It is a round, green 
 hollow, gently Ihelving down, about fifty feet 
 deep ; but I fuppofe it is two hundred acrofs 
 one way, and near three hundred the other. I 
 believe there were full twenty thoufand people, 
 and in the evening being calm, all could hear. 
 
 Monday 15 . 1 preached at St. Cuthbert’s, and 
 next morning rode on to St. Columbs. Being 
 defired to break the ice here, I began preaching 
 without delay, in a gentleman’s yard, adjoining 
 to the main-fireet. I chofe this, as neither too 
 public, nor too private. I fear the greater part 
 of the audience, underftood full little of what 
 they heard. However they behaved with feri- 
 oufnefs and good-manners. 
 
 Hence I rode to Port-Ifaac, now one of the 
 liveliefl: places in Cornwall. The weather being 1 
 uncertain, I preached near the houfe. But there 
 was no rain while I preached ; except the graci- 
 ous rain which God fent upon his inheritance. 
 
 Here Mr. B. met me, who, for fear of offend- 
 ing the bilhop, broke off all commerce with the 
 Methodiffs. He had no fooner done this r than 
 the bifhop rewarded him, by turning him out 
 of his curacy : which, had he continued to walk 
 in C hr i Ilian fimplicity, he would probably have 
 had to this day. 
 
 Wednefday 17. I twice ftopt a violent bleed- 
 ing from a cut, by applying a brier-leaf. The 
 room at Launcelton would not near contain the 
 congregation in the evening, to whom I flrongly 
 D 5 applied. 
 
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 applied the cafe of the impotent man at the pool 
 of Bethefda. Many were much affefted. But 
 O! how few, are willing to be made whole? 
 
 Thurfday 18 . 1 rode to Collumpton, preached 
 at fix, and then went on to Tiverton, i'riday 19, 
 came a meffenger from Jo. Magor, dangeroufly ill 
 at Sidmouth, four or five and twenty miles off, 
 to tell me he could not die in peace till he had 
 feen me. So the next morning after preaching' 
 I fet out : fpent an hour with him by which he 
 was exceedingly refrefhed ; and returned to 
 Tiverton time enough to reft a little, before the 
 evening preaching. 
 
 Sunday 21. I preached morning and evening, 
 in the market-houfe, and at one in an open 
 place atBampton. Monday 22. I preached in the 
 ftreet at Culumbftock, to almoft all the inhabi- 
 tants of the town. A little before fix in the even- 
 ing I preached at Mr. Jones's door in Middle- 
 fey.. Many of the hearers did once run well : 
 fome of whom refolve to fet out anew. Tuefday 
 23. at eleven I preached to a large and ferious 
 congregation at Lymfham-green. When I con- 
 cluded, a clergyman began to entertain the peo- 
 ple, with a difpute concerning lay-preachers. 
 In the inftant began a violent Ihower : fo they 
 left him to himfelf. But it was fair again in the 
 afternoon, and we had a pleafant ride to Brifiol. 
 
 Sunday 28. I preached in Princefs-ftreet at 
 eight, in Kingfwood at two,, and at five near the 
 New fquaie. The laft efpecially was an accept- 
 able 
 
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 able time : particularly while I was explaining, 
 Neither' can they die any more , but are the children 
 oj God, being children of the refurredion. 
 
 In the following days, I preached at Pensford, 
 Paulton, Coleford, Buckland, Frome, Becking- 
 ton, Frefhford and Bradford. Sunday, Odtber^ 
 at eight I adminiftered the facrament at Lady 
 H’s. chappel in Bath. At eleven I preached there 
 on thofe words in the gofpel for the day, Thou 
 Jhalt love thy neighbour as thy [elf. The word 
 was quick and powerful, and 1 truft many, even 
 of the rich and great, felt themfelves finners be- 
 fore God. 
 
 Several evenings this week I preached atBrif- 
 tol, on the education of children. Some an- 
 fwered all, by that poor, lame, miferable fhift, 
 “ O he has no children of his own.” But many 
 of a nobler fpirit, owned the truth and pleaded 
 guilty before God. 
 
 Thurfday 9. 1 waited on the good, oldbifhop 
 of Londonderry, and fpent two or three hours, 
 in ufeful converfation. In the evening I preach- 
 ed again at my Lady’s chapel, to another nume- 
 rous congregation. Who knows but a few a- 
 mong this gay multitude, may work out their fal - 
 vation with fear and trembling ? 
 
 Friday io. I took a ride to Cheltenham. It 
 being too cold to preach, abroad, at fix I preach- 
 ed in the chappel, and fully declared the whole 
 eounfel of God. Afterwards I examined the lit- 
 tle fociety, and found the greater part of them 
 I> 6 lively 
 
[ ] 
 
 lively believers, and quite free from bigotry 
 ' 'in -h is common among churchmen, and 
 fh.l more among dilfenters. The next day, 
 after preaching at five, and at eight in Glocefter, 
 1 had a pleafant ride to Briftol. 
 
 Sunday 12. I took my leave of Princefs-flreet 
 for this feafon. We had fuch a congregation at 
 Kinvfvvood at ten, as I have fcarce feen there for 
 thefe twenty years. And at two I was obliged to 
 preach abroad. Sunday 19. I preached once 
 more in the fquare : and in the morning, Mon- 
 day 20, left Briftol, with a firm hope, that both 
 here and at Kingfwood, things will now be con- 
 ducted to the glory of God and the honour of 
 true religion. In the evening I preached an 
 healing fermon at Bath, on Col. iii. 9. The next 
 day I went on to Salilhury and preached in as 
 routing a manner as I could, on One thing is need- 
 ful. Thurfday 23. I preached at Rumfey : the 
 next day at "\Vincheller, Whitchurch and Ba- 
 lingftoke : where many attended at five on Sa- 
 turday morning. In the afternoon I came to 
 London. 
 
 Sunday 26. I preached at Weft-flreet in the 
 morning to a crowded audience, and in the 
 evening at the Foundery. Flow pleafing would it 
 be, to play between Btiflol and London, and 
 preach alwavs to fuch congregations as thefe ■ 
 But what account then fnould I gilt cj my 
 jlewardjliip, when I can be. no longer fleward ? 
 
 Monday -27. I rode to Wycombe. The room 
 
 was 
 
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 was much crowded ; and yet could not contain 
 the congregation. In the morning too they 
 flocked together in fuch a manner, as had not 
 been feen here before. In the evening I preached 
 at Witney, (where a little company Hand fall to- 
 gether) and thrice the next day, endeavouring to 
 lay line upon line, and precept upon precept. 
 
 Thurfday go. At one I preached in Wattleton, 
 and thence rode with fome difficulty, the wind 
 being exceeding high, over the mountain to 
 Wycombe. The congregation was as before, both 
 for number and earneflnefs. So at length we fee 
 the fruit of our labour. 
 
 * Friday 31. At my return to London, I found 
 it needful to haften to Laton-ftone. But I came 
 too late. Mifs Lewen died the day before, after 
 an illefs of five days. Some hours before, Ihe 
 witnefled that good confeffion, 
 
 “ Nature’s laft agony is o’er, 
 
 “ And cruel fin fubfifis no more.” 
 
 A while after fhe cried out, earneftly, “ Do 
 not you fee him ? There he is ! Glory, glory, 
 glory ! I ffiall be with him for ever, for ever, for 
 ever.” 
 
 So died Margaret Lewen ! A pattern to all 
 young women of fortune in England : a real bi- 
 ble Chriftian. So (he rejls from her labours, and 
 her works do follow her. 
 
 Saturday, November 1. “ God who hath knit 
 together his eleft in one communion and fellow- 
 ship,” 
 
[ 86 ] 
 
 fhip ” gave us a folemn feafon at Wefl-flreet (as 
 ufualj in praifing him for all his faints. On this 
 day in particular, I commonly find the truth of 
 thefe words ; 
 
 The church triumphant in his love, 
 
 Their mighty joys we know : 
 
 They praife the Lamb in hymns above, 
 
 And we in hymns below. 
 
 Monday 3. I rode to Brentford, where all was 
 quiet, both in the congregation and the fociety. 
 Tuefday 4. I preached at Brentford, Batterfea, 
 Deptford and Welling, and examined the feveral 
 focieties. Wednefday 3. I rode by Shoreham to 
 Sevenoaks. * In the little journies which I have 
 lately taken, I have thought much on the huge 
 encomiums, wTich have been for many ages be- 
 llowed on a country-life. How have all the learned 
 world cried out, 
 
 0 Fortuna/i nimium , hona.fi fua norint. 
 Agricola I 
 
 But after all, what a flat contradiction is this., 
 to univerfal experience ? See that little houfe, 
 under the wood, by the river- fide ! There is rural 
 fife in perfection. How happy then is the farmer 
 that lives there ? Let us take a detail of his hap- 
 pinefs. He rifes with, or before the fun, calls his 
 
 fervants. 
 
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 fervants, looks to his fwine and cows ; then to hk 
 ftables and barns. He fees to the ploughing and 
 fowing his ground, in winter or in fpring. In 
 fummer and autumn he hurries and fweats, 
 among his mowers and reapers. And where is 
 his happinefs in the mean time? Which of thefe 
 employments do we envy ? Or do we envy the 
 delicate repaft that fucceeds, which the poet Co 
 languilhes for ? 
 
 0 quando faba , Pythagora. cognata,Jimulque. 
 
 UnEla fatis pingui ponentur olufcula lardo! 
 
 O the happinefs of eating beans well greafed 
 with fat bacon l Nay, and ravage too! Was Horace 
 in his fenfes when he talked thus? Orthefervile 
 herd of his imitators? Our eyes and ears may T 
 convince us, there is not a lefs, happy body of 
 men in all England than the country farmers. In 
 general, their life is fupremely dull ; and it is 
 ufually unhappy too. For of all people in the 
 kingdom they are moft difcontented j feldom fa- 
 tisfied either with God or man. 
 
 Monday io. I fet out early for Northampton. 
 But before we came to Luton, James Glafbrook 
 met me, and informed me, that he had given no- 
 tice of my preaching every day, at one place or 
 another in Bedfordfhire. Upon refleftion, we 
 thought it bell for Mr. Blackwell to go to North- 
 ampton, and for me to keep the appointments 
 which had been made. So I preached in Lutorr 
 
 at 
 
[ 88 ] 
 
 at two, and in the evening at Sundon. Tuefday 
 11. 1 preached between one and two, at a village 
 called Milbrook, to a company of plain, ferious 
 people, and in the evening at Wotton-Pillidge : 
 where feveral have already found this word to 
 be the power oj God unto falvation. Wednefday 
 12. I preached at two in Lidlington, to another 
 company of plain, country people. Thence we 
 crolTed over to Copel, where is at prefent the 
 moll lively of all the little focieties in Bedford- 
 fhire. Thurfday 13. I rode to Bedford, and in 
 the evening fpoke with more plainnefs, I may in- 
 deed fay rdughnefs, than ever I did before, if 
 haply God might roufe fome of thefe drowfy peo- 
 ple. Friday 14. I preached at Luton, and on Sa- 
 turday returned to London. 
 
 Sunday 16. I flrongly inculcated family reli- 
 gion, the grand defideratum among the Metho- 
 difts. Many were afhamed before God, and at 
 length adopted Jofhua’s refolution, As for me 
 and my houje, we will ferve the Lord. 
 
 Thurfday 27 . 1 converfed with a young clergy- 
 man full of good refolutions. But I judge it im- 
 poflible they can hold : for he has not the leaft 
 conception of his own weaknefs. 
 
 Sunday 30. I preached on the education of 
 children, wherein we are fo fhamefullv wanting. 
 Many were now deeply convinced of this. I 
 hope they will not all llifle that conviftion. 
 
 Monday, December 8. I went to Canterbury, 
 and on Wednefday 10, to Dover. At all the fea- 
 
 ports 
 
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 ports we have a multitude of hearers. Is not this 
 a token for good to the nation ? Surely mercy 
 embraces us on every fide. Will it not likewife go 
 through the land ? 
 
 Thurfday 11. I preached at Dover, Sandwich, 
 Ramfgate and Margate: on Friday at Canter- 
 bury. I have not feen this fociety fo at unity 
 among themfelves for many years. Saturday 13, 
 I left them with much fatisfa&ion, and chear- 
 fully returned to London. 
 
 Monday 29. At five in the morning, I again 
 began a courfe of fermons on Chriflian Perfec- 
 tion : if haply that thirft after it might return, 
 which was fo general a few years ago. Since that 
 time, how deeply have we grieved the holy Spi- 
 rit of God ? Yet two or three have lately re- 
 ceived his pure love : and a few more are brought 
 to the birth. 
 
 Thurfday, January 1, 1 767. The whole fo- 
 ciety met in the evening, in Spitalfields church, 
 and folemnly renewed their covenant with God. 
 Sunday 4. I buried the remains of Mary Clarke 
 (formerly, Gardiner) who having been much hurt 
 in the late Cornells, was during a lingering ill- 
 nefs, firfl throughly convinced of her fall from 
 God, and afterward throughly reflored. She 
 then vehemently exhorted all, not to flray from 
 the fold; and died, rejoicing in the full falvation 
 of God. 
 
 Sunday 11. I made a pufh for the lending- 
 flock, fpeaking more flrongly than ever I had 
 
 done 
 
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 done before. The effeft was, that it was railed 
 from about fifty to one hundred and twenty 
 pounds. 
 
 * Tuefday 20, I buried the remains of Ann 
 Wheeler, who, while fhe was hearing the preach- 
 ing in Moorfields four or five and twenty years 
 ago, was firuck in the forehead with a ftone, be- 
 ing then big with child. The daughter with whom 
 fhe then went, retains the mark of the ftone in 
 her forehead to this day. 
 
 Wednefday 21. I had a converfalion with an 
 ingenious man, who proved to a deinonftration, 
 that it was the duty of every many that could, to 
 be cloathed in purple and fine linen , and to jare 
 fumptuoujly every day : and that he would do 
 abundantly more good hereby, than he could do 
 by feeding ike hungry and cloalhing the naked. O 
 the depth of human underftanding ! What may 
 not a man believe, ij he will? 
 
 " Saturday 31. From the words of our bleffed 
 Lord, He that followeth me Jhall not walk in dark- 
 «e/}, I largely Ihewed, that God never deferts any 
 man, unlefs he firft deferts God : and that, ab- 
 ftrablingfrom the bodily diforders on the one hand, 
 and violent temptation on the other, ever)' be- 
 liever may be happy as well as holy, and walk in 
 the light all the days of his life. 
 
 Thurfday, February 5. I heard a melancholy 
 relation. One who had run well for many years, 
 a year or two ago, took violent offence at a per- 
 fon fire thought had ufed her ill. A week or two 
 
 fince 
 
[ 9i ] 
 
 fince fhe was taken ill. But as her illnefs in- 
 creafed, fo did her anger. She often cried out, 
 “ I cannot forgive, I will not forgive,” and in- 
 termixed horrid lhrieks, till lhe died. 
 
 Tuefday to. I baptized a young woman, who 
 had been educated among the Anabaptifts. God 
 bore witnefs to his ordinance, and gave her 
 fuch a bleffing, as fhe could not find words to 
 exprefs. 
 
 Thurfday 12. I preached at Laton-ftone. O 
 what an houfe of God is here ! Not only for de- 
 cency and order, but for the life and power of 
 religion ! I am afraid, there are very few fuch to 
 be found, in all the king’s dominions. 
 
 * Sunday 15. I buried the remains of Richard 
 Morris, who had been in the fociety twenty 
 years; and was a right honefl man, but never 
 convinced of fin, till death began to look him in 
 the face. And then he rather Jaw than felt his 
 need of Chrift. Yet when he called upon him 
 even in his dull way, he was foon affured of his 
 love ; and continued praifing and rejoicing, till 
 his fpirit returned to God. 
 
 Monday 16. I rode to Colchefler, and found 
 more life there than for feveral years. Why 
 fhould we defpair of feeing good done in any 
 place ! How foon can God turn the wildernefs 
 into a fruitful field? Wednefday 18. 1 preached 
 at Herringswell, and the next day came to Nor- 
 wich. Here I fpent a few days much to my fa- 
 tisfa&ion, finding the people far more fettled 
 
 than 
 
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 than ever. Monday 23. I rode to Yarmouth, and 
 found the fociety, after the example of Mr. 
 
 W p,had entirely left the church. I judged it 
 
 needful to fpeak largely upon that head. They 
 flood reproved, and refolved, one and all, to go 
 to it again. 
 
 Tuefday 24. I was defined to ride over to Leo- 
 floff. The houfe would not contain one fourth of 
 the people : fo that I was obliged to preach in 
 the open air. And all behaved with great feri- 
 oufnefs. 
 
 Wednefday 25. I took a lift of the prefent fo- 
 ciety in Norwich, confilling of one hundred and 
 fixty members. But 1 have far more comfort in 
 it now than when it conlifted of fix hundred. 
 Thefe know what they are about, and the 
 greater part are not ignorant of Satan’s de- 
 vices. 
 
 Thurfday 26. I fet out for London. A good 
 part of the dav, we had furious wind and rain 
 full in our faces. However we pufhed on 
 to Lakenheath. Notwithftanding the feverity 
 of the weather, the church was pretty well filled 
 in the evening. The next evening we reached 
 Hockerill, and London on Saturday in the after- 
 noon. 
 
 On Afh Wednefday, March 4. I dined at a 
 friend’s with Mr. Whitefield, ftill breathing no- 
 thing but love. Thurfday 5. I at length obliged 
 Dr. D. by entering into the lifts with him. i he 
 
 letter 
 
[ 93 ] 
 
 letter I wrote (though not publifhed till two or 
 three weeks after) was as follows. 
 
 To the Editor of Lloyd’s Evening Poll. 
 
 S i R, 
 
 “ Many times the publiiher of the Chriftian 
 Magazine, has attacked me without fear or wit. 
 And hereby he has convinced his impartial rea- 
 ders, of one thing at lead, that (as the vulgar fay) 
 
 “ his fingers ich to be at me that he has a paf- 
 fionate defire to meafure fwords with me. But 
 I have other work upon my hands: I can em- 
 ploy the fhort remainder of my life to better 
 purpofe. 
 
 “ The occafion of his late attack, is this : Five 
 or fix and thirty years ago, I much admired the 
 chara&er of a perfect Chrillian drawn by Cle- 
 mens Alexandrinus. Five or fix and twenty 
 years ago, a thought came into my mind, of 
 drawing fuch a charafler myfelf, only in a more 
 fcriptural manner, and moltly in the very words 
 offcripture: this I intitled the “ Charafter of a 
 Methodift,” believing that curiofity would incite 
 more perfons to read it, and alfo that fome pre- 
 judice might thereby be removed from candid 
 men. But that none might imagine, I intended a 
 panegyric either on myfelf or my friends, I 
 guarded againfl this in the very title page, faying 
 both in the name of myfelf and them, Not as 
 though I had already attained , either were already 
 
 perfett. 
 
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 perfeft. To the fame effed I fpeak in the condit- 
 ion, “ Thefe are the principles and pradices of 
 our fed ; thefe are the marks of a true Metho- 
 dift,” (i. e. a true Chriftian, as I immediately af- 
 ter explain myfelf.) “ By thefe alone do thofe, 
 who are in dertfion fo called, defire to be diflin- 
 guilhed from other men,'" p. 1 1 . By thefe marks 
 do we labour to diftinguifh ourfelves from thofe 
 whofe minds or lives are not according to the 
 gofpel of Chri{f,”p. 12. 
 
 Upon this Rufticulus, or Dr. Dodd, fays, “ A 
 Methodiff, according to Mr. Wefley, is one who 
 is perfed, and finneth not in thought, word, or 
 deed.” 
 
 “ Sir, have me excufed. This is not according 
 to Mr. Wefley. I have told all the world lam not 
 perfcdl : and yet you allow me to be a Methodift. 
 I tell you flat, I have not attained the charader I 
 draw. Will you pin it upon me in fpite of my 
 teeth ?” 
 
 “ But Mr. Wefley fays, the other Methodifts 
 have.” I fay no fuch thing. What I fav, after 
 having given a fcriptural account of a perfed 
 Chriftian, is this : “ By thefe marks the Metho- 
 difls defne to be did inguifhed from other men ; 
 by thefe we labour to diftinguifh ourfelves.” And 
 do not you yourfelf dfire and labour after the 
 very fame thing ? 
 
 “ But you in fi ft, “ Mr. Wefley affirms the 
 Methodiffs, i. e. all Methodifls, to be perfectly 
 
 holy 
 
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 holy and righteous.” Where do I affirm this ? 
 Not in the traft before us. In the front of this, I 
 affirm juft the contrary ; and that I affirm it any 
 where elfe, is more than I know: be pleafed, 
 Sir, to point out the place ; till this is done, all 
 you add (bitterly enough) is mete brutum fulmen. 
 And the Methodifts fo called may dill “ declare, 
 (without any impeachment of their fincerity,) 
 that they do not come to the holy table trujiing in 
 their own mghteoufnefs , but in God's manifold and 
 great mercies." 
 
 I am, Sir, your’s, &c. 
 
 John Wesley. 
 
 Sunday S. In the evening I left London, and 
 reached Bath on Tuefday in the afternoon, time 
 enough to wait on that venerable man, the Bi- 
 fliop of Londonderry. After fpending an agree- 
 able and a profitable hour with him, my brother 
 read prayers, and I preached at Lady H.’s chapel. 
 
 I know not when I have feen a more ferious, or 
 more deeply attentive congregation. Is it poffi- 
 ble? Can the gofpel have place, where Satan’s 
 throne is? 
 
 Thurfday 12. and the two following days, I 
 examined the fociety in Briflol. Still I find the 
 greateft part to be in peace and love, and none 
 blameable as to their outward converfation. But 
 life, power and “ itruggling into God” are want- 
 ing. Few are agonizing to be altogether Chriftians. 
 
 Monday 
 
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 Monday 1 6. Finding no (hip which could 
 take over me and my horfes, I fet out with Tho- 
 mas Dancer for Liverpool. Wednefdav 18 I 
 reached Wednefbury, but with difficulty. For 
 my horfc, which 1 left in OHober, to reft for 
 fix months, had been rode all the winter, and 
 was now galled, jaded and worn to fltin and 
 bones. 
 
 Thurfday 19. Puffiing through the rain and 
 violent wind, w r e came in the evening to Namp- 
 wich. But I knew not where to go, till a good 
 woman in the ftreet alked me, “ If Mr. Wefley 
 was come ?” And conducted me to the place 
 where the people were waiting. Many were noify 
 at firft, becaufe they could not get in. But when 
 they did, all were lilent. 
 
 Friday 20. I rode on through more ftorms to 
 Liverpool. But here too, I found no ffiip to carry 
 my horfes. So Monday 23. I fet out for Port- 
 patrick. This day we rode but about forty miles: 
 the next to Kendal, where 1 preached at fix, and 
 fpent a comfortable evening at Serjeant South- 
 well’s. Wednefday 25. The rain, which began 
 yellerday noon, continued till noon to-day, 
 without intermiffion : but though driven againft 
 us by a ftrong wind, it was nothing fo trouble- 
 fome as the piercing cold, while we afterwards 
 rode between the fnowy mountains, the road alfo 
 being covered with fnow. However after a fhort 
 bait at Kefwick, we reached Cockermouth in the 
 afternoon. 
 
 The 
 
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 The mare T. Dancer rode being now quite 
 lame, I left him to crofs over at Whitehaven. 
 And Mr. Allay, who came juft in time, offered to 
 accompany me to Portpatrick. Thurfday 26. 
 We rode through miferable roads to Solway- 
 frith. But the guides were fo deeply engaged at 
 a cock-fight, that none could be procured to {hew 
 us over. We procured one however between 
 three and four. But there was more fea than we 
 expefted : fo that notwithftanding all I could do, 
 my legs and the fkirts of my coat were in the 
 water. The motion of the waves made me a little 
 giddy : but it had a ftranger effefl: on Mr. Atlay. 
 He loft his fight, and was juft dropping off his 
 horfe, when one of our fellow travellers caught 
 hold of him. W e rode on nine or ten miles, and 
 lodged at a village called Ruthwell. Friday 27. 
 We rode by Dumfries and the Bridge of Orr, 
 over the Military-Way, to Gatehoufe of Fleet. 
 But the houfe was filled with fo noify com- 
 pany, that we expefiled little reft. Before 
 eleven however I fell afleep, and heard nothing 
 more, till between three and four in the morn- 
 ing. 
 
 Saturday 28. We rode to Portpatrick. Sunday 
 29. The packet-boat was ready in the morn- 
 ing ; but waited for the mail, hour after hour, 
 till paft three in the afternoon. Hereby we 
 avoided a violent ftorm, and had only what they 
 called a frejh breeze. However this breeze drove 
 Vol. XXXII. E 
 
 us 
 
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 us to Donaghadee, thirty miles, in about three 
 hours. 
 
 Monday 30. I rode to Newtown, and in the 
 evening preached in the markel-houfe to a large 
 number of ferious hearers. The fociety, I found, 
 had been fhattered in pieces, but were uniting 
 'again. To thefe I fpoke more particularly in the 
 morning. It may be they will yet have ears to 
 hear. 
 
 Tuefday 31. After meeting the fociety at Bel- 
 faft, I rode on to Lifburn. At fix I preached in 
 the Linen-hall, (a ftnall fquare fo called) as alfo 
 the two following evenings. We had many peo- 
 ple of fafhion there, and the congregation in- 
 creafed continually. Friday, April 3. At the end 
 of Dromore I met Robert Williams, who {hewed 
 me the way to Newry. A little after fix I went to 
 the market-houfe. But when 1 began I had only 
 four hearers. A good number affembled before I 
 had done ; only none of the gentry. They were 
 hindered by a buGnefs of more importance ! 
 Dreffing for the ajfembly. 
 
 Sunday 5. I was in hopes of reaching Tandra- 
 gee, before the church began. But it was farther 
 off than we expe&ed. At Gve in the evening we 
 had the largeft congregation I had feen in Ulfler. 
 And I believe many found much of the prefence 
 of God, but Gill more at the meeting of the fo- 
 ciety. Monday 6. The congregation was fur- 
 prizingly large this morning, and Gil) larger 
 
 every 
 
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 £'very morning and evening. Wednefday 8. I 
 preached at noon to our old fociety at Terry hu- 
 gan, the mother-church of all thefe parts. Thurf- 
 day 9. The houfe would not contain the people 
 at Tandargee, even at live in the morning. 
 So I went to the market-houfe, where God gave 
 us a folemn and affedfionate parting. 
 
 * I was not glad to hear that fome of the fee- 
 ders had fettled in thefe parts alfo. Thofeofthem 
 who have yet fallen in my way, are more un- 
 charitable than the Papilfs themfelves. I never 
 yet met a Papift, who avowed the principle of 
 murdering Heretics. But a feceding minifler be- 
 ing afked, “ Would not you, if it was in your 
 power, cut the throats of all the Methodifts ?” 
 Replied dire&ly, “ Why did not Samuel hew 
 Agag in pieces before the Lord?" I have not yet 
 met a Papift in this kingdom, who would tell 
 me to my face, r< All but themfelves muft be 
 damned." But I have feen feceders enough, who 
 make no fcruple to affirm, “ None but themfelves 
 could be faved.” And this is the natural confe- 
 quence of their doftrine: for as they hold, 1. 
 That we are faved bv faith alone : 2. That faith 
 
 j 7 
 
 is, the holding fuch and fuch opinions : it fol- 
 lows, all who do not hold thofe opinions, have 
 no faith, and therefore cannot be faved. 
 
 About noon I preached near Dawfon’s Grove, 
 to a large and ferious congregation: but to a far 
 •larger in the evening at Killma: arty. 1 do not 
 wonder the gofpel runs fo fwiftly in thefe parts. 
 
 E 2 The 
 
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 The people in general have the fifleft natural 
 tempers which I ever knew : they have the foft- 
 nefs and courtefy of the Irifh, with the feri- 
 oufnefs of the Scots, and the opennefs of the 
 Englifh. 
 
 Friday to. At one I preached at Portadown, a 
 place not troubled with any kind of religion. I 
 flood in the flreet and cried, Nou.' God command- 
 eth all men every where to repent. The people ga- 
 thered from all fides, and when I prayed, kneeled 
 down upon the Hones, rich and poor, all round 
 me. In the evening I preached again at Kilma- 
 rarty. At five in the morning the houfe was fil- 
 led : and a little after fix I cheat fully commended 
 them to the grace of God. 
 
 Saturday 11. About three I preached at a vil- 
 lage called The Grange. The people came from 
 feveral miles round, and feemed to hear with the 
 fpirit, and with the underflanding alfo. At fix I 
 preached near Cock-hill: where at nine in the 
 morning, Sunday 12, we had a congregation from 
 all parts. But this was more than doubled at five 
 in the evening. All were ferious, and, according 
 to the cuflom of the country, when I went to 
 prayer immediately kneeled, though it was in 
 the high road. I believe, not a few were deeply 
 wounded. O may none heal the wound 
 flightly ! 
 
 Monday 13. I preached at Mount-Roe, a gen- 
 tleman’s feat, about three miles from Cock- hill : 
 
 Tuefday 
 
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 Tuefday 14. At Clanmain. This, I believe, was, 
 two years fince, the only fociety in thefe parts. I 
 think they are now one or two and twenty, 
 within the compafs of ten miles. 
 
 Wednefday 15. I rode ter Armagh. Half an 
 hour before the time of preaching, an officer 
 came and faid, “ Sir, the fovereign (or mayor) 
 -orders me to inform you, you fliall not preach in 
 bis town.” In order to make the trial, I walked 
 to the market-houfe at fix. I had juft begun 
 when the fovereign came. I was informed his 
 name was Harcourt. He was talking very loud, 
 and tolerably fall, when a gentleman came and 
 faid, “ Sir, if you are not allowed to preach here, 
 you are welcome to preach in Mr. M'Gough’s 
 avenue.” Mr. M'Gough, one of the chief mer- 
 chants in the town, himfelf (hewed us the way. 
 I fuppofe thrice as many people flocked toge- 
 ther there, as would have heard me in the mar- 
 ket-houfe. So did the wife providence of God 
 draw Q-ood out of evil ! And his word had indeed 
 free courfe. 
 
 Thurfday 16. About one I preached to a large 
 congregation at Dungannon, in the county of 
 Tyrone : and in the evening before the gate of 
 the great, old houfe at Caftle-Caulfield. The fo- 
 ciety here, the firft fruits of this county, feemed 
 to be all alive. Early in the morning I took horfe 
 and got to Londonderry juft at feven, where the 
 congregation was waiting for me. My voice was 
 E 3 weak : 
 
[ 102 ] 
 
 weak : but I think mod of them cquld hear : and 
 fome, I trull, heard the voice of God. 
 
 Saturday 18. 1 found we were Hill honourable 
 men here, fome of eminence in the citv being 
 both hearers and doers of the word. I employed 
 Monday, Tuefday, and part of Wednefday, in 
 ipeaking feverally to the members of the fociety, 
 and was glad to find the greater part of them had 
 tafied that the Lord is gracious. Saturday 25. I 
 rode to Air. Knox’s farm, and preached to a lit- 
 tle company, on By grace \e me faced through 
 faith. 1 fpoke exceeding plain to them at Derry 
 m the evening, on How long halt ye between two 
 opinions? And more plain, if poilible, both 
 morning and evening, on Sunday 26. Surely this 
 is an underfunding people. But it is only love that 
 idifies. 
 
 Alonday 27. I rode to Augher, and preached 
 at fix in the Caflle-yard, to a large and deeply- 
 ferious congregation. Tuefday 28, I preached 
 near Athenacly, after riding through one of the 
 fined countries in the kingdom. Wednefday 29. 
 A little beyond Swadling bar I found a lively 
 congregation, of plain, country people, as fimple 
 and artlefs as if they had lived upon the Wellh 
 mountains. So has God thofn the foolijh things 
 of the world , to conjound the wife. 
 
 Thurfdav 30. Some of the chief pet Tons in the 
 town defiring I would give them a fermon there, 
 I went thither in the morning. A large room 
 
 was 
 
[ 10 3 ] 
 
 was offered ; but it was quickly fo full and fo 
 hot, that I was obliged to go out into the flreet. 
 I had hardly named my text, before a poor Pa- 
 pift, at a fmall diflance from me, began blow- 
 ing a horn. But a gentleman ftepping up, 
 fnatched his horn away, and without ceremony 
 knocked him down. In the evening I preach- 
 ed in the country again, to a ftill larger congre- 
 gation. And God made his word quick and 
 powerful. Many were wounded, and many 
 comforted. 
 
 Friday* May 1. We rode by a large feat, 
 elegantly built, and finely fituated. But, to my 
 furprize, the gates of the grand avenue were 
 painted blue, green and yellow, like a child’s 
 rattle. Surely the owner has never feeri the 
 pretty bauble. But will no one inform him of 
 it ? In the evening 1 preached in the market- 
 houfe at Sligo, to a larger congregation, as well 
 as better behaved, than when I was here before. 
 The next evening was exceeding cold and bluf- 
 tering. However, the provoft refufing me the 
 ufe of the court-houfe, abundance of people 
 flood with me in the flreet, and moll of 
 them behaved well. Sunday 3. I preached, 
 morning and evening, in the market-houfe, and 
 had much hope, both from the number and be- 
 haviour of the hearers, that even here, our la- 
 bour will not be in vain. 
 
 Monday 4. We rode to Caftle-barr, thirty old 
 Irifh, about fifty- fix Englifh miles. Between fix 
 E 4 ’ and 
 
[ 10 4 ] 
 
 and feven I began preaching in the court-houfe ; 
 but few of the rich were there. Many of thefe 
 dare not hear me above once : they find it is play- 
 ing with edged tools. Many of the poor were 
 prefent at five in the morning, and many more, 
 both rich and poor, in the evening. And the 
 power of the Lord was prefent to heal : but how 
 many re] elded his counfcl againjl themf elves \ 
 
 Wednef. 6. I rode to Newport, and preach- 
 ee in the evening, and at fix in the morning. 
 Fach and poor behaved extremely well, and 
 feemed almojl perjuaded to be Chrijiians. In the 
 evening I took my leave of the congregation at 
 Cable- barr, by fpeaking from thofe words, 
 Come , Lord Jefus ! But who will abide his com- 
 ing in the clouds ? Thofe who are partakers of 
 his holinefs. 
 
 Friday 8. We rode to Galway (above fifty 
 Englifh miles.) It rained almoft every flep of 
 the way. I preached at Ballinrobe in the court- 
 houfe between eight and nine, and at Galway 
 
 about fix. Colonel E , and all his family, 
 
 were there. Perhaps a word might reach their 
 hearts. 
 
 Saturday g. I rode to Ennis, but found the 
 preaching had been difcontinued, and the fo- 
 ciety was vanifhed away. So having no bufi- 
 nefs there, I left it, in the morning, preached 
 at Clare about eight, and in the evening at Li- 
 merick. The continued rain kept me from 
 preaching abroad this week: and I was fcanda- 
 
 lized 
 
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 lized at the fmallnefs of the congregation in the 
 houfe. I am afraid my glorying, touching ma- 
 ny of thefe focieties, is at an end. Almoft 
 throughout the province of Ulfter I found the 
 work of God increafing : and not a little in Co- 
 naught, particularly at Sligo, CafUe-barr and 
 Galway. But in Munfter, a land flowing with 
 milk and honey, how widely is the cafe altered P 
 At Ennis the god of this world has wholly pre- 
 vailed : at Clare, there is but a fpark left : and 
 at Limerick itfelf, I find only the remembrance 
 of the fire which was kindled two years ago. 
 And yet one of the two preachers who was here 
 laff, was almoft univerfally admired l But, alas ! 
 how little does this avail ? “ He is the heft Phy- 
 fician, faid a fenfible man, not who talks bejl, or 
 who writes bejl , but who performs the moji cures.' 9 
 
 Sunday 17. The weather being fair, I took 
 my ftand in the old Camp, and had, I believe, 
 as many hearers as all the preceding week put 
 together. There was a folemn awe throughout 
 the congregation, and I began to hope, God 
 would revive his work. Monday 18. I fpoke 
 to the members of the fociety feverally : molt 
 of them appeared to be honeft and upright. But 
 a general faintnefs feemed to have fpread among 
 them ; there was no zeal, no vigour of grace. 
 
 Thurfday 21. I preached about noon at Bal- 
 lygarane, to what is left of the poor Palatines. 
 Many are gone to America ; many fcattered up 
 and down in various parts of the kingdom. 
 
 E 5 Every 
 
[ »o6 ] 
 
 Every where they are patterns of induftry and 
 frugality. In the evening I preached at New- 
 market. Sunday 24. The old Camp would 
 ill contain the congregation, clofely wedged in 
 together. Afterwards we had a folemn hour at 
 the meeting of the fociety : in w'hich God 
 
 caufed many of the bones which had been 
 broken to rejoice. So they are fet upon their 
 feet once again. Now let them run with pati- 
 ence the race fet before them ! 
 
 Monday 25. I rode to Shronill, and preach- 
 ed at twelve to the largefl congregation I have 
 ever feen there. Thence we croffed the coun- 
 try to Kilfianan. I had hardly begun to fpeak, 
 when a young perfon, a kind of a gentleman, 
 came, and took great pains to make a difturbance. 
 Mr. Dancer mildly defired him to defift ; but 
 •was arsfwered with a volley of oaths and a blow. 
 One of the town then encountered him, and 
 beat him well. But the noife preventing my be- 
 ing heard, I retired a few hundred yards, with 
 the ferious part of the congregation, and quiet- 
 ly fini filed my difcourfe. 
 
 Tuefday 26. I went on to Cork, and on Thurf- 
 day 28, to Bandon. This evening I preached in 
 the houfe ; the next, in the main ftreet ; but the 
 wind was fo high and fo cold, that none either 
 could or would bear it but thofe who really de- 
 filed to fave their fouls. I judged the houfe would 
 hold thefe. So the next evening I preached 
 within, and when the benches were removed, it 
 
 held 
 
 * 
 
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 held the greate ft part of the congregation. And' 
 thofe who could not get in heard tolerably well* 
 either at the doors or windows. Sunday 31. We 
 had moll of them again at feven ; and I took 
 my leave of them with much fatisfaflion, after 
 having ftrongly inforced, To-day, if ye will hear 
 his voice, harden not your hearts. 
 
 I w'ould fain have preached abroad at Cork in 
 the evening, but the wind and rain would not 
 permit. Two years ago I left above three hund- 
 red in the fociety. I find an hundred and eighty 
 feven. What has occafioned fo confiderable a 
 redu&ion ? I believe the real caufe is this : 
 
 Between two and three years ago, when the 
 fociety was nearly as low as it is now, Thomas- 
 Taylor and William Penington came to Cork. 
 They were zealous men and found preachers ; 
 full of afifivity and ftrift in difcipline, without re- 
 fpe£l of perfons. They fet up meetings for prayer 
 in feveral places, and preached abroad at both 
 ends of the city, hearers fwiftly increafed ; the 
 fociety increafed : fo did the number both of 
 the convinced and the converted. I came when 
 the flame was at the height, and preached 
 abroad, in the heart of the city, on the South- 
 fide of it, near the barracks, and feveral times in 
 Blackpool, which lies on the 'north- fide of it. 
 More and more were ftirred up, and there was 
 a greater awakening here than in any part of the 
 kingdom. 
 
 But mifunderftandings crept in between the 
 
 E- 6 leader^ 
 
[ »o8 ] 
 
 leaders, and between fome of them and the preach- 
 ers. And thefe increafed feven-fold, when one 
 of the leaders was expelled the fociety : fome 
 believing him faulty, fome not, and neither fide 
 having patience with the other. Hence a flame 
 of anger fucceeded the flame of love, and many 
 were deftroyed by it. At the fame time fome of 
 our brethren learned a new opinion, and warmly 
 propagated it. This heat was almofl as deftruc- 
 tive as the former : and the effeft of both was, 
 the fpirit of God was grieved ; his bleffing was 
 withheld, and of ccurfe the flock was fcattered. 
 When they are convinced of their fin, and hum- 
 bled before him, then and not before, he will 
 return. 
 
 Wednefdav, June 3. As it was fair, tho’ the 
 wind was high and extremely fharp, I preached 
 in an open place at Blackpool, to a large number 
 of quiet hearers. On the three following evenings 
 the wind and rain confined us in the houfe : 
 much againft my will, as thofe who wanted us 
 mofl, could not or would not come thither. 
 
 Sund. 7. (Whitfunday) The weather turning 
 fair, between four and five in the afternoon I be- 
 gan preaching in George’s-fireet, to fuch a con- 
 gregation as that in the old Camp at Limerick. 
 A folemn awe fat on the faces of the whole af- 
 fembly while I explained, If any man thirf}, let 
 him come unto me and drink. Surely fome of jhem 
 found the promife fulfilled, and did drink of the 
 living water ! 
 
 Monday 
 
[ 30 9 ] 
 
 Monday 8. I rode to Youghall. When I was 
 here two \ ears ago, a flame was kindled among 
 the people. But it was gone out. And I could 
 not wonder at it : for they have fcarce had any 
 preaching'fince. I purpofed flaying only a night, 
 but obferving the number and deep attention cf 
 the congregation, I flayed another day, and on 
 Tuefday 9. preached in the exchange again. The 
 hearers were much increafed and all but a few 
 gentlemen, fo called, behaved with great feriouf- 
 nefs. Wednefday 10, After preaching to a 
 multitude of people, I took horfe, and in the even- 
 ing of a very hot day reached Waterford. 
 
 Here I found a fmall, poor, dead fociety, and 
 but an handful of even dull, carelefs hearers. 
 However I preached in the yard, and found more 
 life among them than I expedfed. In the morn- 
 ing I fpoke to the feveral members of the fociety, 
 fome of whom feemed much devoted to God. I 
 defired Mr. Morgan to'preach at noon. God gave 
 him acceptable words : and the whole congrega- 
 tion, rich and poor, appeared to be greatly mov- 
 ed. They feemed to be flill more affeHed in the 
 evening. What pity, that this fhould pafs away 
 like a cloud ! 
 
 Friday 12. We rode to Killkenny. The fun 
 was exceeding hot : but did not incommode us 
 much, as we had the wind in our face all the 
 way. The congregation at the town-hall in the 
 evening was large and tolerably ferious : a few 
 of the gentry excepted, who feemed neither to 
 
 underftandj 
 
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 tmderftand, nor care for any of thefc things. Yv'e 
 had great part of them at five in the morning. 
 At noon, when Mr. Morgan preached I expe&ed 
 to have feen the largeft company of all. But I 
 wasmiflaken. The ladies could not rife fo foon ; 
 at leaf!, they could not huddle on their cloaths 
 fit to be feen. In the evening I fpoke exceeding 
 plain,- both to the rich and poor. Andafew, at 
 lead received the truth in love. But who will 
 endure to the end ! 
 
 Sunday 14. In the evening I preached at Birr 
 to a wilder congregation than 1 ever faw at Kil- 
 kenny, however, as I flood near the barracks, 
 the number of foldiers that attended, kept them 
 fo far in awe, that they durft only laugh and 
 make a little noife, till the whole body of "the 
 Papifls ran away together. The reft were then 
 tolerably attentive, and grew more and moreferi- 
 ous till I concluded. 
 
 Monday 15. I rode through a pleafant and 
 well cultivated county to Aghrim. For many 
 years I have not feen fo large a congregation 
 here, and fo remarkably well-behaved. At the 
 prayer, both before and after fermon all of them 
 kneeled upon the grafs. A few of the poor Pa- 
 pifts only remained Handing, at a diftance from 
 the reft of the . people. Thefe would come in 
 droves at every place, if the priefts as well as tire 
 king, would grant liberty of confcience. 
 
 At the defire of the good old widow, Mrs. 
 M — , I went with Mr. S— to C — . Lord and 
 
 Lady 
 
[ <** ] 
 
 Lady M— were there- before us ; to whom I was 
 probably 
 
 “ A not expected, much-unwelcome gueft.” 
 
 But whatfoever it was to them, it was a heavy 
 afternoon to me, as I had no place to retire to, 
 and fo was obliged to be in genteel company, 
 for two or three hours together. O what a dull 
 thing is life without religion ? I do not wonder, 
 thattime hangs heavy upon the hands of all who 
 know not God, urdefs they are perpetually drunk 
 with noife and hurry of one kind or another. 
 
 Wednefday 17. We came to Athlone. Here 
 the.fcene was changed : I was- among thofe that 
 both feared and loved God. But to this day they 
 have not recovered the lofs which they fuilained, 
 when they left off going to church. It is true, they 
 have long been convined of their miflake ; yet 
 the fruit of it ftill remains. So that there are very 
 few who retain that vigor of fpirit which they 
 before enjoyed. 
 
 At feven I preached in the new houfe, which 
 Mr. S. has built entirely at his own expence. TJie 
 congregation was as ufual, both large andferious. 
 I refted the four following days, only preaching 
 morning and evening. Sunday 21. We had a fo- 
 lemn meeting ofthe fociety at five. After preach- 
 ing at eight,. I would willingly have gone to 
 church, but was informed there had been no fer- 
 vice for near two years, and would be none for 
 
 a year 
 
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 a year or two longer, the in fide of the church 
 wanting to be repaired! In the evening, I preach- 
 ed in the barracks. I know not that ever I faw 
 fuch a congregation at Athlone before. Rich and 
 poor, Proteftants and Papifls, gathered together 
 from every fide. And deep attention fat on all, 
 while I explained that folemn declaration, (part 
 of the gofpel for the day ) If they hear not Mofes 
 and the prophets, neither will they be perfuaded 
 though one ro/e from the dead. 
 
 It was about this time, that a remarkable paf- 
 fage happened at Macclesfield in Chefhire. One 
 Ellen Stanyers, a young woman of that town, 
 very religious in her own way, but quite a ftran- 
 ger to the fcripture-way of falvation had her work 
 from one of the fhops in the town. A young man 
 belonging to the fame fhop, fell in love with her. 
 Fearing left her refufing him would difoblige her 
 mafter, fhe gave him encouragement ; and after- 
 wards, though file never intended it, promifed to 
 marry him. One day as fhe was fitting at her 
 work, this fin was brought to her remembrance, 
 and lay fo exceeding heavy upon her mind, that 
 flie was utterly diftreft. She took her work, and 
 carried it to her mafter, telling him, fhe had de- 
 ftroved her foul with it. At the fame time fhe 
 told the young man, “ She was refolved, never 
 “ to have him.” He came to her and faid “ If 
 “ you do not keep your word, I will hang my- 
 “ fell at your door. And then I will come and 
 “ take you away with me to the devil. ” She 
 
 was 
 
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 was fo frighted fhe fell into black defpair. Her 
 father carried her to a clergyman, and afterward 
 to another who feemed to pity her cafe, but 
 knew not how to comfort her. Willing to try 
 every way, he_ordered one to read to her in Bur- 
 kit upon the new teftament till fhe cried, “ Take 
 it away ; I cannot bear it ; and attempted to run 
 away.” But her father held her, and when fhe 
 flruggled, beat her, and told her, fhe fhould hear 
 it, whether fhe would or no. She grew worfe and 
 worfe : could neither eat, drink rior deep; and 
 pined away to a mere fkeleton. She wandered 
 about, as one diftra&ed, in the fields and lanes 
 feekingreft, but finding none. She was exceed- 
 ingly tempted to defiroy herfelf ; but that thought 
 came into her mind, “ If I do, I fhall leap 
 “ into hell immediately. I muft go thither : but 
 “ I will keep out of it as long as I can.” She was 
 wandering about one day, when a perfon met 
 her, and advifed her to hear the Methodifls. Al- 
 though file hated them, yet fhe was willing to do 
 any thing for eafe and fo one evening came to 
 the preaching. After the fervice was over, file 
 defired to fpeak to the preacher. Mr. Pawfon ; 
 but fhe talked quite wildly. However he encou- 
 raged her to come to the Saviour of finners, and 
 cry to him for deliverance, “ The next day 
 (fo Mr. P. continues the account) about twelve 
 of us met together, and prayed with her. I 
 found great freedom, and a full confidence, that 
 God would deliver her. After prayer, file faid, 
 
 “ I never 
 
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 “ I never felt my heart pray before. I felt my 
 heart go along with the preacher’s words. They 
 have done me good at my heart. My defpair is 
 all gone, I have a hope that I fhall be faved. ’ 
 The next morning two or three prayed with her 
 again. She fpent all the day with one or another 
 of the Methodifls, and did not go home till night. 
 Her father then afked, “ Nelly where have you 
 been all this time?” She anfwered, “ I have 
 been among the Methodifls.” “ The Methodifls ! 
 Said he, have you got any good there !” She re- 
 plied, “ Yes, I blefs God, I have. I now hope I 
 fhall be faved.” “Well, faid he, I care not where 
 you go, if you only get relief.” She then went to 
 bed, but could not fleep. While fhe was meditat- 
 ing on what fhe had heard, thofe words were 
 brought to her mind, Is there no balm in Gilead? 
 Is there no phyjieian there? With the words the 
 Lord fpoke peace to her foul : and in one and 
 the fame moment, all pain and borrow fled away, 
 and fhe was entirely healed, both body and mind. 
 Early in the morning fhe came to the houfe of 
 one of our friends, and clapping her hands to- 
 gether, cried out in an extafy of joy, “ O my 
 Jefus, my Jefus, my Jefus! What is it, that he 
 has done for me ? I feel, he has forgiven all my 
 fins.” Taking up an hymn-book, fhe opened it 
 on thofe words, 
 
 “I 
 
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 “ I the chief of finners am, 
 
 “ But Jefus died for me !” 
 
 She was quite tranfported, being overwhelmed 
 with peace and joy unfpeakabie. At the fame 
 time fire was refiored to the full ufe of her rea- 
 fon, and in a little while was firong and healthy 
 as ever. She immediately defired to be admitted 
 into the fociety, and for about a year enjoyed 
 unfpeakabie happinefs. She then received a call 
 from her Beloved, and died full of faith and 
 love.” 
 
 Tuefday 23. About one I preached in the 
 market-place at Clara. I admired the ferioufnefs 
 of the whole congregation. Indeed one or two 
 gentlemen appeared quite unconcerned. But the 
 prefence of the greater gentlemen kept them 
 
 within bounds. So they were as quiet as if 
 
 they had been at the play-houfe. 
 
 This and the following evening I preached in 
 the market place at Tullamore. Thurfday 23. I 
 was defired to look at the monument lately erec- 
 ted for the Earl of Charleville. It obferves, “ That 
 he w'as the lafl of his family, the great Moore’s 
 of Croghan.” But how little did riches profit ei- 
 ther him, who died in the flrength of his years ; 
 or his heir, w'ho was literally overwhelmed by 
 them ; being fo full of care, that fleep departed 
 from him, and he was refflefs day and night : till: 
 after a few months, life itfelf was a burden, and an, 
 untimely death clofed the fcene ! 
 
 In 
 
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 In the evening I preached at Mouhtmelick, 
 near the raarket-houfe. The congregation was 
 exceeding large : and God made his word 
 quick and powerful , and Jliarper than a two-edged 
 fword. 
 
 * Friday 26. Findingfome of the moll earneft 
 perfons in the fociety were deeply prejudiced 
 againft each other, I defued them to come face 
 to face, and laboured much to remove their pre- 
 judice. I ufed both argument and perfuafion ; but 
 it was all in vain. Perceiving that reafoning pro- 
 fited nothing, we betook ourfelves to praver. On 
 a fudden the mighty power of God, broke in 
 upon them. The angry ones on both Tides burfi 
 into tears, and fell on each other’s necks. All an- 
 ger and prejudice vanifhed away, and they were 
 as cordially united as ever. 
 
 Saturday 27. The congregation in the market- 
 houfe at Portarlington was widely different from 
 that at Mountmelick. I endeavoured to fuit my 
 fubjeft to my audience, preaching from Gallio 
 cared for none ofthefe things. But fome of them 
 were quite above convidlion. So, finding that 
 they had neither fenfe, nor good manners, (of 
 religion I did not fufpefl them) the next day I 
 adjourned to the fhell of our new houfe, in which 
 I preached morning and evening. And here the 
 greateft part of the congregation, both Papifts 
 and Protefiants, behaved with decency. 
 
 Monday 29. We took horfe about a quarter 
 paft three, and before eight preached Cooly- 
 
 lough. 
 
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 lough. At twelve I preached in the ffiady walk ; 
 afterwards we had the quarterly meeting. I found 
 no reafon tocomplain of any of the focieties; 
 only they want more life, and zeal. 
 
 Tuefday go. I obferved more good manners at 
 Tyrrel’s-pafs in rich as well as poor, than at Port- 
 arlington. Wednefday, July 1. A friend carried 
 me to Belvidere, a feat built on the fide ofa clear 
 lake, with walks and gardens adjoining, fo curi- 
 oufly laid out, as to exceed even the late Earl of 
 Charleville’s. One would fcarce think it poffible, 
 to have fuch a variety of beauties in fo final! a 
 compafs. But 
 
 How foon, alas ! will thefe “ upbraid 
 Their tranfitory mafter dead !” 
 
 We went on to Molingar, where for many 
 years no Methodifi preacher could appear. The 
 feffions-houfe here was fifed as a guard-houfe. I 
 fent to the commanding officer, and defired leave 
 to preach there. This he not only gave, but came 
 himfelf. So did many of the foldiers as well as 
 the townfmen. In the evening, notwithfianding 
 the cold and bluftering winds, I was obliged to 
 preach abroad at Tyrrel ! S-pafs, But the rain, on 
 the two following evenings, drove ns into the 
 houfe at Edinderry. Saturday 4. Having now 
 finiffied my circuit, I went on chearfully to Dub- 
 lin. 
 
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 Sunday 5. Our houfe was throughly filled, g 
 light which I have feldom feen. Friday 10. We 
 obferved as a day of falling and prayer. It was at 
 our lafl meeting, that we found the anfwerofour 
 prayers. It feemed as if the windows of heaven 
 were opened ; the fpirit of grace and fupplication 
 was poured out. Many were filled with confola- 
 tion ; and many who had grown weary, refolved 
 to fet out anew. 
 
 Tuefday 14. A poor backflider, whom I found 
 ten days ago dying in black defpair, told me, 
 “ Now I am not afraid to die. I fee Jefus juft be- 
 fore me ; and his face is all glory.” Inftances of 
 this kind do by no means prove that a faint 
 cannot fall, even /or ever ; but only that God is 
 pitiful and of tender mercy, not willing any Jhculd 
 .perijli. 
 
 Thurfday 16. About ten I reached Don-ard, 
 Feven or eight and twenty Englifh miles from 
 Dublin. Standing under fome fhady trees, I in- 
 forced upon a ferious congregation, All things 
 are ready • come unto the marriage. From hence 
 I rode on to Baltinglafs, and preached on, By 
 grace ye are favtd through faith. It was fultry 
 hot as we rode to Carlow : fo that I was weary 
 and faint when we came in : but I foon reco- 
 vered, and at feven preached in the feffions- 
 houfe, to a numerous congregation. But the 
 greater part of them were like blocks, and fome 
 like wild affes colts. I was conftrained to reprove 
 
 them 
 
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 them fharply. They received it well, and be- 
 haved with more decency. 
 
 Friday 17. We loft our way in fetting out of 
 the town. It rained moft of the day. However 
 this was far better than fultry heat. In the even- 
 ing we returned to Dublin. 
 
 In my fcraps of time this week, I read over 
 that wonderful poem, Fingal. If it is genuine, if 
 it is really extant, (as many allure me it is) in the 
 Erfe language, it is an amazing proof of a genius 
 in thofe barbarous times, little inferior to Homer 
 or Virgil ! 
 
 Monday 20. A friend fhewed me the apart- 
 ments in the Caftle, the refidence of the Lord 
 Lieutenant. The Duke of Bedford made a no- 
 ble addition to the lodgings, which are now both 
 grand and convenient. But the furniture fur- 
 prized me not a little. It is by no means equal 
 to the building. In England, many gentlemen of 
 five hundred a year, would be utterly afhamed 
 of it. 
 
 Tuefday 21. I received an account of a 
 youhg woman, the fubftance of which was as 
 follows : 
 
 “ Katherine Murray-, Was born February e, 
 TL7 29, at Carrick on Sure. She feared God from 
 a child, and abftained from lying and fpeaking 
 bad words. When about thirteen, fhe Hole fome 
 twigs of goofe-berry bulhes from a neighbour* 
 and planted them in her father’s garden. Imme- 
 diately 
 
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 diately fhe felt fhe had finned, knew (he de- 
 ferved hell, and feared it would be her portion. 
 She began praying three times a day ; but not- 
 withftanding, her fin followed her every 
 where. Day and night it was before her, till 
 after fome time, that conviffion gradually wore 
 off. 
 
 “ In the year 1749, her filler heard the Me- 
 thodiftsj fo called. She was foon convinced of 
 fin, joined the fociety, and advifed her to do fo 
 too. But hearing one named that was in it, fhe 
 was filled with difdain, “ What ! Meet withfuch 
 a man as that ?” Yet not long after, fhe was con- 
 vinced, that the fins of her own heart, pride and 
 paffion in particular, were as abominable in the 
 fight of God, as the fins of that man, or any 
 other. This conviction was exceeding fharp. 
 She could no longer defpife any, but only cry 
 out, day and night, God be merciful to me a fin- 
 11 er. 
 
 “ In February file went to hear Mr. Reeves. 
 He preached on part of the 103d pfalm. She 
 was now more deeply than ever convinced 
 of heart-fin, of unbelief in particular, and 
 had fuch a fight of the excellency of faith, 
 that (lie determined to feek it with all her 
 heart. 
 
 “ In the May following, fhe was fitting in her 
 room, lamenting her fiate, and crying to God for 
 mercy, when fuddenly fhe had a fight of our Lord, 
 from the manger to the crofs. But it did not 
 
 bring 
 
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 bring comfort: onthe contrary, it fo heightened 
 her diftrefs, that fhe cried aloud and alarmed the 
 family: nor could fhe refrain till her ftrength 
 failed, and Hie fainted away. Often her fleep de- 
 parted from her ; her food was taftelefs, and fhe 
 mingled her drink with weeping; being refolved 
 never to reft, till fhe found reft in him, whom 
 alone her foul defired. 
 
 “ It was not long before the Lord looked upon 
 her. As fhe was in prayer, fhe had a clear repre- 
 fentation of our bleffed Lord, as crowned with 
 thorns, and clothed with the purple robe. In a 
 moment her foul refted on him, and fhe knew 
 he had taken away her fms. Diftrefs was gone: 
 the love of God flowed into her heart, and fhe 
 could rejoice in God her Saviour. Her foul was 
 fo ravifhed with his love, that fhe could not hold 
 her peace : but cried out to all fire knew, You 
 may know your fins forgiven, if you will come 
 unto Jefus. 
 
 “ Yet a while after, fhe drefted herfelf as fine 
 as ever fire could, and went to worfhip God, as 
 lhe exprefled it, “ proud as a devil.” Upon the 
 fpot God convinced her of her folly, of her pride 
 and vanity. She was ftript of all her comfort, 
 yea and bi ought to doubt the reality of all fhe had 
 before experienced. The devil then laboured to 
 perfuade her, that fhe had finned the fin againft 
 the Holy Ghoft ; and pufhed it fo, that fire 
 thought her life would fail, and fhe fhould in- 
 ■ftantly drop into the pit. But the Lord did not 
 Vol. XXXII. F leave 
 
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 leave her long in the fnare : he appeared again, 
 to the joy of her foul. Her confidence was more 
 flrorig than ever, and the fear of God more 
 deeply rooted in her heart. She abhorred all fin, 
 that in particular which had occafioned her dif- 
 ir efs : of which indeed fhe had a peculiar detef- 
 tation to her lafl hours. 
 
 * “ God now made her heart flrong : fhe 
 walked feven years in the clear light of his coun- 
 tenance, never feeling a moment’s doubt of his 
 favour, but having the uninterrupted witnefs of 
 his Spirit. It was her meat and drink to do his 
 will. His word, read or preached, was her delight, 
 and all his ways w’ere pleafant to her. She faid, 
 fire never came from a fermon unimproved ; of- 
 ten lo relrefhed as to iorget wearinefs or pain. 
 And fhe w’as truly diligent in bujinejs, as well as 
 fervent in Jpirit. 
 
 “ And now fire thought, fhe fiiould never be 
 removed-, God had made her hill fo Jlrong. But 
 foon after this, fire was prefent when her fifler 
 was ill ufed by her hufband. She gave way to 
 the temptation, fell into a paflion, and again loft 
 all her happinefs. Yet not long : fhe continued 
 inftantin prayer; till God again healed her back- 
 fliding. 
 
 * “ But from this time, as her temptations 
 were more violent, fo fhe had a keener fenfeof j 
 the remains of fins. Though fhe enjoyed a con- 
 ftant fenfe of the favour of God, yet fhe had alfo 
 much fear, left inbred fin fhould prevail over 
 
 her, 
 
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 her, and make her bring afcandal upon the go£ 
 pel. She fpent whole days in prayer, that God 
 would not fuffer her to be tempted above that Jhe 
 was able , and that with every temptation he would 
 make a way for her to efcape. And fine was heard; 
 fo that her whole converfation adorned the doc- 
 trineofGod her Saviour. 
 
 * “ Yet '(lie fuffered much reproach, not only 
 from the children of the world, but alfo from the 
 children of God. Thefe wounds funk deep into 
 her foul, and often made her weep before the 
 Lord. Sometimes fhe felt refentment for a fhort 
 time, of which darknefs w T as the fure confe- 
 quence : but if at any time fhe loll the confeioni- 
 nefs of pardon, it almoft took away Iter life ; nor 
 could fhe refl fatisfied a moment, till fhe regained 
 the light of his countenance. She always judged 
 it was the privilege of every believer, conltantly 
 to walk in the light: and that nothing but fin 
 could rob any, who had true faith, of their con- 
 fidence in a pardoning God. 
 
 “ She was tried from within and without for 
 about live years, yet kept from all known fin. 
 In the year 1761, it pleafed God to fhew hef 
 more clearly than ever, under a fermon preached 
 by John Johnfon, the abfolute neceffity, of be- 
 ing laved from all fin, and perfected in love. 
 And now her conflant cry was, “ Lord, take full 
 poffeffion of my heart, and reign there without 
 a rival.” Nor was this at all hindered by her dif- 
 F 2 orders. 
 
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 orders, the gravel and coiick, which about this 
 time began to be very violent. 
 
 “* In the year 1762, fhe believedGod did hear 
 her prayer; that her foul was intirely filled with 
 love, and all unholy tempers deflroyed. And for 
 feveral months fire rejoiced evermore , prayed, 
 without ceafing, and in every thing gave thanks. 
 Her happinefs had no intermiffion, day or night, 
 yea, and increafed, while her diforder increafed 
 exceedingly. 
 
 * “ But in the beginning of the year 1763, 
 when fome unkind things were whifpered about 
 concerning her, fhe gave way to the temptation, 
 and felt again a degree of anger in her heart. 
 This foon occafioned a doub' whether fhe was 
 not deceived before in thinking fhe was faved 
 from fin ? But fhe faid, “ Whether I was or no, 
 I am fure, I may he. And I am determined roiv 
 to feek it from the Lord.” 
 
 “ From this time her diforders gradually in- 
 creafed. Whenever I was in town, t I vifited 
 her from time to time, and always found her, 
 <* whatever her pains were, reftgncd to the will of 
 God: having a clear fenfe of his favour, and a 
 flrong confidence that he would finifli his work 
 in her foul. 
 
 “ So foon as I came to town, January, 1767, 
 fhe fent for me. I found her confined to her bed, 
 and frequently in fuch racking pain, that it was 
 thought lire could not live many minutes. But 
 
 fhe 
 
 + Mr. Johnfon. 
 
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 fhe faid, “ My pain is nothing: the prefence of 
 the Lord bears me up above it all. I have not a 
 murmuring thought: neither the fhadow of a 
 doubt. My way to glory is plain before me.” I 
 afked, “ If fhe was not afraid of having great 
 fufferings before the foul and body were parted ?” 
 She faid, “ Not in the lead. I expeft to have 
 fnarp pain, juft before I depart;” (which was fo) 
 “ but I do not concern myfelf about what I 
 fhall fuffer. It is all at the difpofal of the 
 Lord.” 
 
 * “ Two days after I went again to fee her. 
 She faid, “ My happinefs is much increafed. For 
 a day and a night my pains have been exquilite : 
 yet in the midftofall,my heart did dance and fing. 
 The Lord fofmiles upon me, I cannot exprefs it 
 in words.” February 6. She fent for me again. I 
 found her in a rapture of love, finging and praif- 
 ing God : fo that I was conftrained to fay, “ O 
 Lord, thou haft highly favoured me, in permit- 
 ting me to fee fuch a Chriftian !” I cannot at- 
 tempt to defcribe how fhe then appeared : it was 
 with fuch afmile as I never faw before. Moft of 
 the preceding day fhe had fpent in finging praife 
 to God, and telling of his goodnefs to all that 
 came near her ; her foul, fhe faid, being fo hap- 
 py, that fhe could not be filent. 
 
 * “ When I fpoke to her of death, flue faid, 
 “ It is not death to me : it is only fleep : death is 
 my friend ! Death is welcome ! Its fting is gone : 
 
 F 3 I fhall 
 
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 I (hall foon be with my Lord ! O that I could 
 hug on to all eternity ! My work of praife is be* 
 gun, and /hall never end.” I a/ked, “ Do you 
 hnd the greateft inclination to prayer or praife?’’ 
 She faid, “ O praife! Praife. I am full of love. 
 And I cannot doubt but I fhall love and praife 
 him to all eternity.” I then afked her concerning 
 her former profeflion, of being faved from fin. 
 She faid, “ Sir, I have it now! I have it now! 
 And more abundantly. My foul is fo full of love, 
 that my bbdy is almo/t overpowered. It will 
 be but a little while, and we fliall meet in 
 glory.” 
 
 * “ Monday 9. I vifited her again, and found 
 iter finging as well as her weak body would per- 
 mit. I a/ked, “ Are you as happy now, as when 
 I faw you laft ? She faid, “ Yes, I am : I have 
 not the /hadow of a doubt. I had many conflicts 
 with a wicked heart : but thofe are all over now; 
 the Lord has finifhed his w-ork.” She converfed 
 now like one on Pifgah’s top, in fight of the New 
 Jerufalem ; often faying, “ My work is begun, 
 which fliall never end ; I fliall praife him to all 
 eternity.” 
 
 “ She was a/ked, “ Can you wait the Lord’s 
 leifure to releafe you ?” She faid, “ Yes, yes: as 
 long as he pleafes. My pain is gone ; this alfo he 
 has done for me ; and why fhould I not w'ait pa- 
 tiently ?” But it was not long before her pains 
 returned with redoubled violence. And fome- 
 times a groan was extorted from her : but not 
 
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 the leaft complaint. Yea, fhe often broke out in 
 a rapture of love, crying, “ I cannot exprefs the 
 happinefs I feel.” 
 
 “ Friday 13. After dozing a little, (he awaked 
 in a tranfport, faying, “ O ! You can’t conceive 
 the joy I feel. You know but in part : but when 
 that which is perfeft is come, you fhall know 
 even as you are known.” She fpoke, with regard 
 to fome glorious views which fhe then had of 
 her dear Redeemer. 
 
 * “ During her laft pains, which were the 
 fharpeft of all, the devil made his laft effort. 
 She was in a violent llruggle about half an hour. 
 Then Ore ftretched out her hands and faid, 
 “ Glory to Jefus ! Olove Jefus! Love Jefus! He 
 is a glorious Jefus ! He has now made me fit for 
 himfelf. When the harveft is ripe, the fickle is 
 put in.” She afked for a little wine and water : 
 but (he could not fwallow it. She faid, “ I 
 have long been drinking wine and water here : 
 now I fhall drink wine in my father’s kingdom.” 
 She lay ftill about a quarter of an hour, ar.d then 
 breathed her foul into the hands ofher Redeem- 
 er.” 
 
 OnWednefday and Thurfday we had our little 
 conference atDublin. Friday weobferved as a day 
 of faffing and prayer : and concluded it with the 
 moft folemn watch-night, that I ever remem- 
 ber in this kingdom. I was much tired between 
 F 4 feven 
 
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 feven and eight o’clock, but lefsand lefs fo as the 
 fervice went on. And at the conclufion, a little 
 after twelve I was frefher than at fix in the 
 morning. 
 
 Sunday 26. was a comfortable day indeed. 
 But the conclufion of it tried my ftrength, as I 
 was fpeaking with fcarce any infermiffion, 
 from a little after five till between nine and 
 ten. 
 
 Monday 27. Having a fever e cold, I was in 
 hopes of liding it away. So I took horfe a little 
 after four, and reached Newry in the evening. 
 But my voice was frill fo weak, that I doubt if 
 many of the congregation in the market-houfe 
 could hear me. And my cough was fo violent at 
 night, I could hardly deep a quarter of an hour 
 together. However I preached at five in the 
 morning, without much difficulty. Wednefday 
 eg. 1 haded on to Donaghadce, but found all the 
 pacquet-boats were on the other fide. So I 
 agreed with the captain of a fmall veffel, and 
 went on board about two o’clock. But it was 
 fo late when we landed (afte r a paffage of five 
 hours) that we could only reach Stranrawer that 
 night. 
 
 Thurfday 30. We rode through a country 
 fwiftly improving to Aire, and pa fie d a quiet and 
 comfortable night. Friday 31. Before two we 
 reached Glafgow. In the evening I preached, and 
 again at five in the morning. Saturday, Auguft 1. 
 
 As 
 
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 As both my horfe and myfelf were a little tired, 
 I took the ffage-coach to Edinburgh. 
 
 Before I left Glafgow I heard fo flrange an 
 account, that I defired to hear it from the perfon 
 himfelf. He was a fexton, and yet for many years 
 had little troubled himfelf about religion. I fet 
 down his words, and leave every man to form 
 his own judgment upon them. “ Sixteen weeks 
 ago, 1 was walking an hour before fun-fet, behind 
 the high kirk, and looking on one fide I faw one 
 clofe to me, who looked in my face, and afked 
 me, How I did ? I anfwered, Pretty well. He 
 faid, “ You have had many troubles. But how 
 have you improved them ?” He then told me all 
 that ever I did, yea, and the thoughts that had 
 been in my heart, adding, “ Be ready for my fe- 
 cond coming.” And he was gone I knew not 
 how, I trembled all over, and had no ftrengthin 
 me, but funk down to the ground. From that 
 time I groaned continually under the load of 
 fin, till at the Lord’s fupper it was all taken 
 away.” 
 
 # Sunday 2 . I was forry to find both the fo- 
 ciety and the congregations fmaller than when I 
 was here laft. I impute this chiefly, to the man- 
 ner of preaching which has been generally u fed. 
 The people have been told frequently and 
 ftrongly, of their coldnefs, deadnefs, heavinefs, 
 and littlenefs of faith, but very rarely of any thing 
 that would move thankfulnefs. Hereby many 
 
 were 
 
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 were driven away, and thofe that remained were 
 kept cold and dead. 
 
 I encouraged them ftrongly at eight in the 
 morning, and about noon preached upon the 
 Caftle-hill, on There is joy in heaven over one fin- 
 zicr that repenteth. The fun fhone exceeding hot 
 upon my head : but all was well ; for God was 
 in the midllof us. In the evening I preached on 
 Luke xx. 34, &c. and many were comforted : 
 efpecially while I was inlarging on thofe deep 
 words, Neither can they die any more, but are equal 
 to the angels, and are the children of God, being the 
 children of the refurretlion. 
 
 Monday 3. I vifited as many as I could, fick 
 and well, and endeavoured to confirm them. In 
 the evening I preached at feven, and again at 
 nine. We concluded about twelve. One then 
 came to me with an unexpefted melTage. A 
 gentleman in the weft of Scotland, was a ferious, 
 fenfible man, but violently attached both to the 
 dothine and difcipline of the kirk. His eldeft 
 daughter, dreamed fome months fince, that fhe 
 was poifoned, and mull die in an hour. She 
 waked in (he utmoft confternation, which iftued 
 in a deep conviftion of fin. Soon after fhe had 
 an earned defire to fee me, though not perceiv- 
 ing any poffibility of it. But bufinefs calling 
 
 Mr. H to Edinburgh, he brought her with 
 
 him, three days before lcame. On Sunday morn- 
 ing he heard the preaching for the firft time, 
 
 and 
 
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 and afterwards omitted no opportunity. He 
 now fent his daughter, to beg I would come 
 if pofTible to the weft, and to defire that I or any 
 of our preachers would make his houfe our 
 home. 
 
 Tuefday 4. I rode to Dunbar, and endeavour- 
 ed, if poflible, to rouze fome of the fleep- 
 ers, by ftrongly, yea, roughly inforcing thofe 
 words, Lord are there few that be faved? And 
 this I muft fay for the Scots in general, I 
 know no men like them, for bearing plain- 
 dealing. 
 
 On Thurfday I reached Newcaftle. Saturday 
 8. At the requeft of Mr. Whitaker of New- 
 England, I preached, and afterwards made a col- 
 leftion, for the Indian fchools in America. A 
 large fum of money is now colle&ed : but will 
 money convert Heathens ? Find preachers of 
 David Brainerd’s fpirit, and nothing can ftand be- 
 forethem. But without this, what will gold orfilver 
 do ? No more than lead or iron. They have in- 
 deed fent thoufands to hell ; but never yet brought 
 a foul to heaven. 
 
 Sunday 9. I preached about ten in Mr., 
 Goodday’s church at Monk-Weremouth. About 
 two I preached to a willing multitude at Gatef- 
 head-fell, and at five, near the GarttaHeads at 
 Newcaftle. 
 
 Monday 10. I laboured to fet fome right,, 
 who have much grace, but little underftand- 
 ing. And I prevailed on all but one who ap- 
 F 6 pearetF 
 
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 peared indeed to be the twin-foul of poor George 
 Bell. 
 
 Tuefday 11. I came to a friendly conclufion 
 fblelfed be God !) with Mr. L. He agreed to 
 pay the legacies on the fecond of November: 
 and we relinquilhed the refidue of the ellate. 
 So the Harpy-lawyers are happily difappointed : 
 and the defign of the dying faint in fome mea- 
 fure anfwered. 
 
 Wednefday 12. I took coach. The next day 
 we reached Grantham, and London about fe- 
 ven on Friday evening, having run that day 
 an hundred and ten miles. On the road I 
 read over Seller’s hi ftory of Palmyra, and Nor- 
 den’s travels into Egypt and Abyffinia : two as 
 dry, and unfatisfying books, as ever I read in my 
 life. 
 
 Sunday 16. I hoped to preached in the fields: 
 but the rain prevented. However one of our 
 brethren preached there at feven, to thoufands 
 upon thoufands. And there was not the leaf! flia- 
 dow of interruption. How long will thefe Hal- 
 cyon-days continue ! 
 
 Tuefday 18. I met in conference with our 
 affiftants, and a feleft number of preachers. To 
 thefe were added on Thurfday and Fridav, Mr. 
 Whitefield, Howell Harris, and manv ftewards 
 and local preachers. Love and harmony reigned 
 from the beginning to the end. But we have all 
 need of more love and holinefs ; and in order 
 
 thereto, 
 
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 thereto, of crying continually, “ Lord, increaft 
 our faith ! 
 
 Having finilhed fny work at London for the 
 prefent, on Monday 24, I rode to Wycombe, 
 and preached in the evening to a numerous and 
 deeply attentive congregation. 
 
 Tuefday 25. I read Mr. Crantz’s account of 
 of the Million into Groenland. Although I make 
 much allowance for the liberty which I know 
 the brethren take, in their accounts of one another, 
 yet I do not fee any reafon to doubt, that fome 
 of the heathens have been converted. But what 
 pity, thatfo affediing an account fhould be dif- 
 graced with thofe vile, doggrel verfes, juft cal- 
 culated to make the whole performance {link in 
 the noftrils of all fenfible men ! In the evening 
 the multiude that flocked together, obliged me 
 to preach abroad. I faw but three or four that 
 feemed unaffected. And thofe, I fuppofe, were 
 footmen ; a race of men who are commonly 
 loft to all fenfe of fhame, as well as of good and 
 evil. 
 
 Wednefday 26. I rode to Ipftone-hall, near 
 Stoken church, and preached about ten o’clock : 
 and in the evening at Witney. The next even- 
 ing I preached on Wood-Green, near the town, 
 to an huge congregation, on Seek ye the. Lord , while 
 he ?nay be found : Call ye upon him while he is 
 near Scarce any were light or unattentive. Sure- 
 ly fome will bring forth fruit unto perfedtion. 
 
 Friday 28. I preached at Stow in the Wold, 
 
 about 
 
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 about ten, to a very dull, quiet congregation, and 
 in the evening to almoft fuch another at Glocef- 
 ter, Saturday 29. We rode to Brecknock. Sun- 
 day 30. One of Trevecha gave us a Orange ac- 
 count. A young woman who ferved as dairy- 
 maid there, was beloved by all the family. She 
 was loving to every one, never angry, never out 
 of humour. That morning fhe was much happier 
 and had a fuller manifeftation of the love of God 
 than ever. As (he was coming through the entry, 
 a lad met her with a gun in his hand, which he 
 did not know was charged. He prefentedit, and 
 faid, “ Nanny, I will (hoot you.” The gun went 
 off and fhot her thro’ the heart. She fell on her 
 face, and without any ftruggle or groan, immedi- 
 ately expired. 
 
 I preached at eight to a large and ferious con- 
 gregation, and on the Bulwarks at five. A multi- 
 tude of people attended : and even the gentry 
 feemed, for the prefent, almojl perfuaded to be 
 Chrijiians. 
 
 Monday 31. I rode to Carmarthen, and, a- little 
 before fix went down to the green . The congre- 
 gation was near as large as that at Brecknock, hut 
 nothing fogay, being almoft all poor or middling 
 people To thefe therefore I direcfly preached 
 the gofpel. They heard it withgreedinefs. And 
 though I was faint and weary when I began, I 
 was foon as a giant refreJJied with wine. 
 
 Tuefday, Sept. 1. I rode on to Pembroke, 
 and this and the next evening preached in the 
 
 main 
 
[ »3 5 3 
 
 main flreet, to far more than the houfe could 
 have contained. In the mornings we were within. 
 Wednefday 2, Upon enquiry, I found the work 
 of God in Pembrokefhire had been exceedingly 
 hindered, chiefly by Mr. Davie’s preachers, who 
 had continually inveighed againft ours, and there- 
 by frighten’d abundance of people from hearing, 
 or coming near them. This had fometimes 
 provoked them to retort, which always made a 
 bad matter worfe. The advice therefore which I 
 -gave them was, l. Let all the people facredly ab- 
 ftain from backbiting, talebearing, evil-fpeaking, 
 2. Let all our preachers abflain from returning rail- 
 ing for railing, either in public or in private, as 
 well as from difputing. 3. Let them never preach 
 controverfy, but plain, pra&ical and experimen- 
 tal religion. 
 
 Thurfday 3. About noon I preached at Lam- 
 phy, a village two miles from Pembroke. The 
 rain a little leffened the congregration, but did 
 not hinder the bleffing. God was eminently pre- 
 fent to comfort the mourners : as likewife at 
 Pembroke in the evening. 
 
 Saturday 5. I rode to Haverford-Weft, but 
 knew not what to do, becaufe of the rain. How- 
 ever at fix I was conftrained by the number of 
 people to Hand abroad, near the caftle. And the 
 whole congregation as quietly attended, as if we 
 had been in a cathedral. 
 
 Sunday 6. I had a large and earned: congre- 
 gation at fix. About ten I began the fervice at 
 
 St. 
 
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 St. Daniel’s, a little church about half a mile from 
 Pembroke, which till lately lay in ruins. It was 
 throughly filled during the prayers and fermon, 
 and a confiderable number gladly partook of the 
 Lord’s fupper. Afterwards I rode back to Haver- 
 ford, and notwithftanding the rain, flood in the 
 fame place as before and applied, 0 that thou 
 hadjl known, at leaf, in this thy day , the things that 
 make for thy pace ! 
 
 Monday 7 . 1 rode to Carmarthen, and preach- 
 ed on the green on, Is there no Balm in Gilead? 
 In the afternoon finding none that could direft 
 us to Oxwych, we were obliged to ride round by 
 Swanfey. The next morning we came to Ox- 
 wych," and found George Story there, who had 
 come to Swanfey the day before in his way to 
 Cork. Hearing I was near he came over juft in 
 fealon, to preach to the congregation who waited 
 for me. At noon I preached to I fuppofe, all the 
 inhabitants of the town, and then rode to 
 Neath. 
 
 I had defigned to preach abroad, but the rain 
 would not permit. The preaching-houfe was 
 muchcrouded. And the power of God was in 
 the midft of the congregation ; prejudice funk 
 down before it. And the innumerable lies, which 
 moft of them had heard of me, vanifhed into air. 
 The fame power refted upon them early in the 
 morning. The bigots on all fides were afhamed, 
 and felt, that in Chrift Jefus, nothing avails, but 
 the Faith that worketh by Love. 
 
 Wednefday 
 
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 Wednefday g. About twelve I preached to a 
 large and ferious congregation, in the affembly 
 room atCowbridge : and in the evening, in the 
 court-houfe at Cardiff, where, both this and the 
 following evening, we had moft of the gentry in 
 the town : and both the mornings, the hearers 
 were more than for many years. V/ho knows, 
 but even in this defolate town, God may build 
 up the wafte places ? 
 
 Friday 1 1. I rode to Lambraddock, a Angle 
 houfe delightfully fituated near the top of an high 
 mountain, and in the evening preached to a feri- 
 ous company of plain welchmen, with uncom- 
 mon enlargement of heart. Saturday 12. Set- 
 ting out early, 1 reached Chepflow before noon, 
 and preached at a friend’s door, to a civil, un- 
 concerned congregation. We came to the Old 
 Paffage, (being told we had time to fpare) a few 
 minutes after the boat was gone off. Finding they 
 would not pafs again that day, I left my horfes 
 behind, and crofling over in a fmall boat, got to 
 Briflol, foon enough to preach in the even- 
 ing. 
 
 The following week I vifited moft of the Somer- 
 fetfhire focieties. Sunday 20. (as the Sunday 
 before) I preached in Princes-ftreet at eight, 
 about two under the fycamore-tree atKingfwood, 
 and at five in the New-fquare, to a larger con- 
 gregation, than I think, was ever there before. 
 Monday 21. I preached at Pensford, Pauhon 
 and Coleford ; on Tuefday noon at Midfum- 
 
 mer 
 
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 mer-Norton ; (fo called, I fuppofe, becaufe for- 
 merly it was acceflible at no other time of the 
 year) and in the evening at Coleford again, 
 where we had a comfortable love-feaft, at which 
 many fpoke their experience with all ftmplicity. 
 Wednefday 23. About noon I preached at Buck- 
 land, and in the evening at Frome ; but the 
 houfe was too fmall, fo that many were conftrain- 
 ed to go away. So the next evening I preach- 
 ed in a meadow, where a multitude of all denomi- 
 nations attended. It feems that God is at length 
 giving a more general call to this town alfo : the 
 people whereof feemed before, in every fenfe, 
 to be rich and incrcajed in goods , and needing 
 
 Friday 25. I was defired to preach at Frefh- 
 ford ; but the people durft not come to the 
 houfe, becaufe of the fmall-pox, of which Jofeph 
 Allen , an lfraeliie indeed had died the day before. 
 So they placed a table near the church-yard. But 
 1 had no fooner begun to fpeak than the bells 
 began toring.by the procurement of a neighour- 
 ing gentleman. However it w^as labour loft ; for 
 my voice prevailed, and the people heard me dif- 
 tindlly. Nay a perfon extremely deaf, who had 
 not been able to hear a fermon for feveral years, 
 told his neighbours w’ith great joy, “ That he 
 had heard and underftood all, from the begin- 
 ning to end.” 
 
 I preached at Bi iftol in the evening on 2 Cor. 
 iv. 17. a text which had been chofen by William 
 
 New, 
 
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 New a little before God called him hence. He 
 laboured under a deep aflhma for feveral years, 
 and for feven or eight months was confined to his 
 bed where he was from time to time vifited by a 
 friend, who wrote the following account. 
 
 “ He was one of the firfh methodifts in Briftol, 
 and always walked as became the gofpel. By 
 the fweat of his brow he maintained a large fa- 
 mily, leaving fix children behind him. When 
 he was no longer able to walk, he did not dif- 
 continue his labour: and after he kept his 
 
 room, he ufed to cut out glafs, (being a glazier) 
 to enable his eldeft fon, a child about fourteen, 
 to do fomething toward the fupporc of his fa- 
 mily. Yea, when he kept his bed, he was not 
 idle, but fiill gave him what affifiance he 
 could. 
 
 “ He was formerly fond of company and di- 
 verfions, but as foon as God called him, left 
 them all : having a nobler diverfion, vifiting the 
 fick and affli&ed, in which he fpent all his lei- 
 fure hours. He was diligent in the ufe of all 
 the means of grace; very rarely, during his 
 health, miffing the morning preaching at five, 
 though he lived above a mile from the room. 
 
 “ About a year ago he took his leave of the 
 fociety, telling them, “ That it was with great 
 pleafure he had joined and continued with them : 
 that it was in this defpifed place, the Lord firft 
 manifefled himfelf to his foul : that no tongue 
 could tell what he had fince enjoyed under that 
 
 roof ; 
 
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 roof : that the fame Jefus had enabled him to 
 hold on thus far, and he hoped to be with him 
 foon adding, “ I do not expe£t to ' you 
 any more here, but have no doubt of meeu ecu 
 in glory.” 
 
 During the lall twenty days of his life, 
 took no other fuftenance, than no - and then a 
 tea-fpoon full of wine, or of babn-tea. . out 
 fourteen days before his death, bis tongue turn- 
 ed black with large chops in it through the heat 
 of his ftomach : and his lips were drawn two or 
 three inches apart, fo that it was difficult for him 
 to fpeak. In this condition he lay waiting for his 
 difeharge, faying fometimes. “ I am, as it were, 
 two perfons. The body is in torturing pain, the 
 foul is in fweet peace.” He frequently faid, I 
 long to be gone, come, Lord Jefus ! Come 
 quickly.” When I afked, “ Do you defireto fee 
 fuch a perfon ?” He faid, “ I defile to fee none 
 but Jefus. To him I leave my dear wife and 
 children. I have no care about them.” 
 
 “ The next day Satan violently a {faulted his 
 faith : but inftantly our Lord appeared in a 
 his glory, and he was filled with love and joy 
 unfpeakable, and faid, “ call my friend, and let 
 him fee a dying Chriftian. O what do I feel ? I 
 fee my Lord has overcome for me. I am his : 
 praife the Lord ! Praife the Lord ! Hallelujah ! 
 Hallelujah !” Hedefired them that were prefent 
 to fing, and began, “ Jefu, Lover of my foul.” 
 
 He 
 
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 He then defired the text for his funeral ferraon 
 might be i Cor. iv. 17. 
 
 “ The next time I faw him, having defired 
 him to make figns rather than fpeak, which was 
 painful to him, he faid, “ Here is a fign, (pufh- 
 ing out his feet, and holding up his hands) a dy- 
 ing Chrillian, full of love and joy ! A crown, a 
 never fading crown awaits me : I am going to 
 everlalting habitations.” He then defired us to 
 fing, and quickly added, “ He is come! He is 
 come ! I want to be gone ; Farewel to you all.” 
 When he could no longer fpeak, he continued 
 finding, clapping his hands, and difcovering ail 
 extafy of joy in every motion. 
 
 “ After a while his fpeecli returned, and he 
 faid, “ To-day is Friday : To-morrow I expe£l 
 to go. One faid, “ Poor Mr. New !” He faid, It 
 is rich New. Though poor in myfelf, I am rich 
 in Chrift.’* 
 
 “ I faw him on Saturday in the fame fpirit, 
 praifing God with every breath. He appeared 
 quite tranfported pointing upwards, and turning 
 his fingers round his head, alluding to the crown 
 prepared for him. I faid, “ Your Lord has kept 
 the beft. wine unto the !afi.”~“ Yes, yes, faid he, it 
 is in my foul.” When I took my leave he prefixed 
 ray hand, pointed upward, and again clapped his 
 hands. Afterward he fpoke little, till he cried 
 out, “ The chariot, the chariot of Ifrael,” and 
 died.” 
 
 Saturday 26. I was informed between twelve 
 
 and 
 
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 and one, that Mrs. B. was dying. Judging I had 
 no time to lofe, about one I left Brillol, and 
 about feven on Sunday morning came to London. 
 Learning there that fhe was better, I flayed to 
 preach and adminifler the facrament at the 
 cbappel, and then haltened on, and fpent a fo- 
 lemn and profitable hour at Lewifham. 1 preach* 
 ed again at Welf-flreet Chappel in the afternoon, 
 and made a collefilion for the poor, as I had 
 done in the morning. Soon after I took chaife 
 again, and on Monday about noon came to 
 Brillol. 
 
 Wednef. 30. I preached to a large and very 
 ferious congregation on Redcliff-Htll. This is 
 the wav to overturn Satan’s kingdom. In 
 field-preaching, more than any other means, 
 God is found of them that fought him not. By 
 this, death, heaven and hell, come to the ears, 
 if not the hearts, of them that cart for none of 
 tkefe things. 
 
 Friday, Ofitober 2, and feme davs in the fol- 
 lowing week I vifited the other focieties round 
 Brillol. Sun. 1 1. I pi eached at eight in Princes- 
 Street, and a little before five, near the New- 
 Square ; where notwithflanding the keenefs of 
 the wind the congregation was exceeding large. 
 I permitted all of Mr. Whitefield's focietythat 
 pleafed, to be prefent at the love-feaft that fol- 
 lowed, I hope we lhall not know rear any more , 
 unlefswith the world, the flelh and the devil. 
 
 Mon. 12. I preached at Bradford, on Tuef- 
 
 day 
 
[ M 3 ] 
 
 day at Salilbury. On Wednefday about one 
 atRumfey ; whence I rode to Southampton, and 
 the wind being fo high, that I could not well 
 preach abroad, I fent a line to the mayor, requeft- 
 ing leave to preach in the Town-hall. In an hour 
 he fent me word, I might ; but in an hour more 
 he retrafted. Poor mayor of Southampton ! So 
 I preached in a fnrall room, and did not repent 
 my labour. 
 
 Thurfday 15. About noon I preached at Fare- 
 ham, then went on to Portfmouth Common. I 
 fent to defire the ufe of the tabernacle : but was 
 anfwered, Not unlefs I would preach the perfe- 
 verance of the faints.” At fix I preached in our 
 own room, which was fufficiently crouded both 
 within and without. Refolving there fhould be 
 room for all that would come, I preached the 
 next afternoon on the fide of the Common. And 
 the wdiole congregation was as quite as that 
 in the fquare at Briftol. Saturday 17, I fet out 
 early, and in the evening came to London. 
 
 Tuefday 20. I went to Colchefier, and fpent 
 three days very agreeably, among a quiet and 
 loving people. All their little mifunderftandings 
 are now at an end. Yet they had not the life 
 which they had once. A lofs of this kind is not 
 eafily recovered. Saturday 2q. I returned to 
 London. 
 
 Monday 26. I began my little tour, through 
 Northaraptonfhire and Bedfordihire. I preached 
 at Whittlebury in the evening. Tuefday 27. I 
 
 rode 
 
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 rode to Weedon, where the ufe of the church 
 being refufed, I accepted the offer of the Prefby- 
 terian meeting- houfe, and preached to a crowded 
 audience. Wednef. 20. About two in the after- 
 noon I preached at Towceller, where though 
 many could not get in yet all were quiet. Hence 
 we rode to Northampton, where in the evening 
 (our own room being far too fmall) I preached 
 in the riding-fchool to a large and deeply ferious 
 congregation. After fervice, I was challenged, 
 by one that was my parifhioner at Epworth, near 
 forty years ago. I drank tea at her houfe the next 
 afternoon with her daughter-in-law from Lon- 
 don, very big with child, and greatly afraid that 
 fiiefhould die in labour. When we went to pray- 
 ers, I inlarged in prayer, for her in particular. 
 Within five minutes after we went away her 
 pains began, and focal after file was delivered 
 of a fine boy. Friday 30. I rodeacrofs the coun- 
 try to Bedford, and preached in the evening to a 
 civil, heavy congregation. Saturday 31. After 
 preaching at Luton in the way, I returned to 
 London. 
 
 Sund. Nov. 1. Being All-Saints day.- (a fefii- 
 Val I dearly love) I could not but obferve the ad- 
 mirable propriety with which the collefl, epiftle 
 and gofpel for the day are fuited to each other. 
 As I was to fet out for Kent in the morning. Mr. 
 B. invited me to lpend the evening with him at 
 Lewifham. Soon after we took horfe, we found 
 one of our horfes lame. On enquiry, it appeared 
 
 that 
 
[ H5 ] 
 
 that five nails were driven into the quick. So 
 we were at a full flop. But Mr. B. fupplyinsr us 
 with another horfe, we rode on, through heavy 
 rain, to Staplehurft. In the evening I met with a 
 young clergyman, who feemedtc have no defire, 
 but to fave his own foul and thofe that heard him. 
 I advifed him, to expeft croffes and perfecuiion. 
 But he was fure, his re£k>r would Hand by him. 
 Vain hope. That the children of the world 
 fhould long ftand by the children of Goi ! 
 Soon after, his redtor told him, “ Unlefs he 
 kept away from this people, he mull leave his 
 curacy.” 
 
 Tuefday 3. I rode to Rye, and preached in the 
 evening. A poor prodigal, who was cut to the 
 heart the firll time I was there, was one of the 
 audience: but exceeding drunk. He dined with 
 us the next day : but was ftill fo muddled, that I 
 could make no impreflion on him. He reur almoff 
 perfuaded to be a Chrifiian ! But I doubt is now 
 farther off than ever. In the evening I dealt once 
 more exceeding plain with him, and his fellow 
 finners. If they now perifh in their iniquity, 
 their blood is on their own head. Thurfday 5. 
 About noon I preached at Norjam. I was fur- 
 prized at one, to hear the Tower-guns fo plain at 
 above fifty miles dillance. In the afternoon we 
 rode through miferable roads to the pleafant vil- 
 lage of Ewhurfl, where I found the moil lively 
 congregration that I have met within the county. 
 Saturday 7. I called at the home of mourning at 
 ; Vol. XXXII, G Shoreham. 
 
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 Shcreham, where I found Mr. P. borrowing 
 hke a Chriflian, for his youngeft fon, the 
 fiaff of his age, the fourth that has been fnatch- 
 ed from him in the bloom of youth. After 
 fpending a profitable hour here, I rode forward 
 to London. 
 
 Sun. 8. I buried the remains of that excel- 
 lent young man Benjamin Colley. He did rejoice 
 evermore, and pray without ceafing ; and I be- 
 lieve his backfliding cofl him his life. From the 
 time he miffed his way, by means of Mr. Max- 
 field, he went heavily all his days. God indeed 
 reflored his peace but left him to be buffeted of 
 Satan, in an uncommon manner. And his trials 
 did not end but with his life. However fome of 
 his lafl words were, tell all the fociety, tell all the 
 world, I die without doubt or fear.” 
 
 Thurfd. 12. I occafionally looked into a book 
 which I had long thrown by, as not worth read- 
 ing, entitled, “ Thoughts on God and Na- 
 ture.” But how agreeably was I furprized ? It 
 contains a treafure of antient learning, delivered 
 in clear and firong language ; and is indeed a 
 maffer-peice in its kind, a thunder-bolt to Lord 
 Bolingbrooke and all his admirers. 
 
 Sunday 15. I buried the remains of Rebecca 
 Mills. She found peace with God many years 
 fince, and about five years ago was entirely chang- 
 ed, and enabled to give her whole foul to God. 
 From that hour fhe never found any decay, but 
 loved and ferved him with her whole heart. Pain 
 
 and 
 
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 and ficknefs, and various trials fucceeded almolt 
 without any intermiffion. But fhe was always the 
 Tame, firm and unmoved, as the rock on which 
 fhe was built ; in life and in death uniformly 
 praifing the God of her falvation. The attainable- 
 nefs of this great falvation, is put beyond all 
 reafonable doubt, by the teltimony of one 
 fuch (were there but one) living and dying 
 witnefs. 
 
 Friday 20. I preached to the condemned fe- 
 lons in Newgate, on To day Jlialt thou be with me 
 in paradife. All of them were (truck andmehed 
 into tears : who knows but fome of them may 
 reap in joy ? 
 
 In the evening I preached at Laton-flone. 
 How good would it be for me to be here, not 
 twice in a year, but in a month ! So it appears to 
 me. But God is wifer than man. When it is really 
 bell, will he not bring it to pafs P 
 
 About this time I received two or three re- 
 markable letters ; extrafts from which I here fub- 
 join. 
 
 “ Reverend Sir, 
 
 “ Lately I was requefied to read Mr. Marfhal’s 
 gofpel-myltery of fanftification : it was repre- 
 fented to me, as the mod excellent piece, ever 
 publifhed on that fubjeft. I have read it, 2nd 
 left I fhould be mifiaken, fubmit to you the fol- 
 lowing fhort remarks. 
 
 “ L mult be acknowledged, he is on the one 
 G 2 hand 
 
[ M ] 
 
 hand copious in fhewing the impracticability of 
 real, genuine holinefs, or of doing any works 
 acceptable to God, till we repent and believe the 
 gofpel. On the other hand, he (hews the deadly 
 confequences of that faith, which fets afide our 
 obligations to obferve God’s holy law. 
 
 “ I rejoice likewife, to find him fhewing, how 
 well able a believer is to keep this law, and prov- 
 ing that this faith implies a divine affuranceof 
 our belonging to Chrift: but mod of all, to ob- 
 ferve him fpeaking fo excellently of the growth of 
 a believer in holinefs. “ We are always fays he, 
 to refill the devil, to quench all his fiery darts , and 
 to perfedl holinefis in thefiear oj God. We are to be 
 built up in Chrift until zee come to a perfect man , 
 to the me aj ure of the filature of the fullnefs of 
 Chrift 
 
 “ But how does this agree with his affecting, 
 our natural Hate doth remain in a meafure with 
 all its corrupt principles and practices as long as 
 we live in the pre/ent world ? You may as well 
 wafh a blackamoor white, as purge the flelh 
 from its evil lulls. It will lull againft the fpirit in 
 the heft faints upon earth.” How then am I to 
 come to a pnfcdl man, to the meafure of the filature 
 of the fulnefs ofChrifil ? Is there a reconciliation 
 between the fulnefs ofChrifil in a believer, and all 
 his corrupt principles and practice ? Is it thus, 
 that the ftrong man armed is to be ca.fl out, with 
 the [polling of his goods f Does he tell me, I am 
 to quench all the fiery darts of the devil : and in 
 
 the 
 
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 the fame breath that “ I may as well wafh a blacka- 
 moor white.” That I can do all things through 
 Chrifl ffrengthning me : and yet, that the flefh 
 fhall never be purged from its evil luffs ; no, not 
 in the bell faints on earth, fo long as they live 
 in the prefent world ? What a wonderful com- 
 munion is here between light and darknefs ? 
 What flrange fellowfhip between Chrilt and 
 Belial?” 
 
 “ What can we infer from hence but that Mr. 
 Marfhall’s book, containing fo much poifon mixt 
 with food, is an exceeding dangerous one, and 
 not fit to be recommended to any but experi- 
 enced Chriflians ?” 
 
 The following letter is of a very different kind. 
 
 “ Sir, 
 
 “ I was yefferday led to hear, what God would 
 fay to me by your mouth. You exhorted us, to 
 Strive to enter in at the jlrait gate. I am willing fo 
 to do. But I find, one chief part of my driving, 
 muff be, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, 
 to inldruft the ignorant, to vifit the fick, and fuch 
 as are in prifon, bound in mifery and iron. 
 
 “ But if you purge out all who fcorn fuch prac- 
 tices, or at lead are not found in them, how 
 many will remain in your fociety ? I fear, fcarc e 
 enough to carry your body to the grave ! Alas, 
 how many even among thofe who are called be- 
 lievers, have plentv of all the neceffaries of life, 
 and yet complain of proverty ? How many have 
 G 3 houfes 
 
[ * 5 ° ] 
 
 houfes and lands, or bags of money, and yet can- 
 not' find in their hearts to fpare now and then to 
 God’s poor a little piece of gold ? How many 
 have linen in plenty, with three or four fuits of 
 clothes, and can fee the poor go naked? They 
 will change them away for painted clay, or let the 
 moths devour them, before they will give them 
 to cover the nakednefs of their poor brethren, 
 many of whofe fouls are clothed with glorious 
 robes, though their bodies are covered with 
 rags. Pray, Sir, tell thefe, you cannot believe 
 they are Chriflians, unlefs they imitate Chrifl in 
 doing good to all men, and hate covetoufnefs, 
 which is idolatry.” 
 
 I do tell them fo : and I tell them, It will be 
 ?nore tolerable in the day of judgment for Sodom and 
 Gomorrah thanfor them ! I tell them, the Meth'o* 
 difis that do not fulfil all righteoufnefs, will have 
 the hotteft place in the lake of fire ! 
 
 To awaken, if poffible, thefe fleepers, I add 
 one extraft more, 
 
 “ Reverend and dear Sir, 
 
 “ Some time ago I acquainted you how graci- 
 oufly the Lord had dealt with me, in delivering 
 me out of all my troubles. For fome time part I 
 have been amazed at my fpeech, memory and 
 underflanding, in all which I was remarkably de- 
 feftive. I have had power to explain the fcriptures 
 to my friends that meet here, in a manner that 
 
 aftonifhed 
 
[ ] 
 
 aftonifhed me. But I immediately faw from 
 whence thefe bleffings came, and with an over- 
 flow of love and joy, worfhipped the great foun- 
 tain of all goodnefs. I never was fo fenfible of 
 my unprofitablenefs, never fo abhorred myfelf as 
 I do now. And yet I feel no condemnation, nor 
 any withdrawing of my Redeemer’s love. He is 
 my fhield and buckler, my God and my all. 
 Glory be to God and the Lamb for ever ! Praife 
 him for me, and praife him for ever. Let every 
 thing that hath breath, praife the Lord. 
 
 “ Since the Lord has not only been gracious 
 to my foul, but has intrufled me with a (hare of 
 this world’s good. I am under an equal obliga- 
 tion to be faithful, in this as in the other gifts of 
 God. Now efpecially, when help is fo much 
 wanted, I ought to he the more careful. Suffer 
 me, Sir, to fpeak freely of myfelf. I have about 
 forty feven pounds a year. As to my difburfe- 
 ments, for apparel, I buy the moll lading, and in 
 general, the plained I can. I buy no furniture 
 but what is neceflary and cheap. I make my own 
 fire, and get my own breakfad and fupper. I pay 
 fixpence to one of our friends for my dinner. 
 I drink herb-tea, and thereby fave at lead a 
 dulling a week. I feldom drink tea in an after- 
 noon, but fup at fix, on bread and cheefe, with 
 milk and water. So I fave at lead eight pence 
 by dropping tea in the afternoon. I faded much, 
 till my health was greatly impaired. Then I ufed 
 abdinence on Wednefdays, Fridays and other 
 G 4 ' fad- 
 
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 fall days, till I was obliged to leave this off too : 
 but not till I was quite indifferent as to what I 
 eat. So I determined, if I can’t retrench a meal 
 I can retrench the expence of a meal twice a 
 week, and on other fall-days, ufing potatoes, 
 milk, or fume other cheap tiling. Thus I fave four 
 pence per dinner twice a week, which with the 
 one fhilling and eight-pence makes two {hillings 
 and four pence per week, without retrenching 
 one neceffary meal. Now this two lhillings and 
 four. pence would buy as much meat, as made 
 into broth, would nearly fufkce for a fmall 
 family, 7 o be fhort, the expence for inyfelf, 
 meat, drink, clothes and walking, is not twenty 
 eight pounds per annum, fo that I have near 
 twenty pounds to return to God in the poor. 
 Now if every chrillian family, while in health, 
 would thus far deny themfelves, would twice a 
 week dine on the cheapell food, drink in gene- 
 ral herb-tea, faithfully calculate the money fared 
 thereby, and give it to the poor over and above 
 their ufual donations ; we /hould then hear no 
 complaining in our ftreets, but the poor would 
 eat and be fatisfied. He that gathered much 
 would have nothing over, and he that gathered 
 little, would have no lack. O how happy Ihould 
 we all be, if this was the cafe with us ! 1 men- 
 tioned this fome time ago in a meeting at London 
 when a brother faid, “ Thefe are but little things. 
 As I went home, I thought of his words : “ Little 
 things !” Is the want of fire, in froft and fnow 
 
 a little 
 
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 a little thing ? Or the want of food, in a diftref- 
 ied, helplefs family ? Gracious God ! Feed me 
 with food convenient for me ! Give me not poverty ; 
 left I fteal , and take the name of my God in 
 vain ! 
 
 “ Dear Sir,. I know what you feel for the poor, 
 and I alfo fympathize with you. Here is a hard 
 feafon coming on, and every thing very dear, 
 thoufands of poor fouls, yea, Chrifiians, dread 
 the approaching calamities. O that God would 
 ftir up the hearts of all, that believe themfelves 
 his children, to evidence it by fhewing mercy to 
 the poor, as God has fhewn them mercy ! Surely 
 the real children of God will do it of themfelves v 
 For it is the natural fruit of a branch in ChrifF.. 
 I would not defire them to lofe one meal in a 
 week, but to ufe as cheap food, clothes,- &c, as 
 poffible. And I think the poor themfelves ought 
 to be queftioned, with regard to drinking tea and 
 beer. For I cannot think it right for them to in- 
 dulge themfelves in thofe things which I refrain 
 from, to help them. My earned prayers fhall 
 accompany yours, that God would give us all, in 
 this our day, to know the things which belong 
 unto our peace, and. to acknowledge the bleffings 
 which are freely given to us of God !” 
 
 Monday 23.. I went to Canterbury. Here I 
 met with the life of Mahomet, wrote, I fuppofe 
 by the Count de Roulanvillers. Whoever the 
 author is, he is a very pert, (hallow, felf-conceit- 
 ed coxcomb, remarkable for nothing but his inc- 
 
 menfs. 
 
C ] 
 
 menfe affurance and thorough contempt of Chrif- 
 tianity. And the book is a dull ill-digefted ro- 
 'mance, fupported by no authorities at all : where- 
 as Dean Prideaux (a writer of ten times his 
 fenfe) cites his authorities for every thing he ad- 
 vances. 
 
 In the afternoon I rode to Dover ; but the 
 gentleman I was to lodge with, was gone a long 
 journey. He went to bed well: but was dead in the 
 morning ; fuch a vapour is life ! At fix I preach- 
 ed : but the houfe would by no means con- 
 tain the congregation, moil of the officers of the 
 garrifon were there, I have not found fo much 
 life here for fome years. After preaching at Sand- 
 wich and Margate, and fpending a comfortable 
 day at Canterbury, on Saturday I returned to 
 London. 
 
 Monday 30. I took coach for Norwich, and in 
 the evening came to New-market. Tuefday, De- 
 cember 1, being alone in the coach, I was con- 
 fidering feveral points of importance. And thus 
 much appeared clear as the day : 
 
 That a man may be faved, who cannot exprefs 
 himfelfproperly concerning imputed righteouj he/s. 
 Therefore to do this, is not neceffary to falva- 
 tion : 
 
 That a man may be faved, who has not clear 
 conceptions of it: (yea that never heard the 
 phrafe.) Therefore clear conceptions of it are not 
 necejfary to falvation : yea, it is not neceffary to 
 falvation. to ufe the phrafe at all : 
 
 That 
 
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 That a pious church-man, who has not clear 
 conceptions even of jujlification by faith , may be 
 faved : therefore clear conceptions even of this 
 are not neceffary to falvation : 
 
 That a myftic, who denies juftification by 
 faith, (Mr. Law for inffance] may be faved. But 
 if fo, what becomes of “ Articulus ftantis vel ca- 
 dentis ecclefiae ?” If fo, is it not high time for 
 us. 
 
 Projicere ampullas & fefquipedalia verba; 
 
 And to return to the plain word, He that fearetk 
 God , and woiketh right eoufne/s , is accepted with 
 him ! 
 
 Every evening this week, I preached at Nor- 
 wich, to a quiet, well-behaved congregrauon. 
 Our friends, the mob, feera to have taken their 
 leave. And fo have triflers : all that remain 
 feem to be deeply ferious. But how eafily are 
 even thefe turned out of the way ? One of our 
 old members, about a year ago left the fociety, 
 and never heard the preaching fince, “ Becaufe 
 Mr. Lincoln faid, Mr. Wefley and all his fol- 
 lowers would go to hell together !” However on 
 Tuefday night he venturned to the houfe once 
 more. And God met him there, and revealed 
 his Son in his heart. 
 
 Saturday 5. Believing it was my duty to fearch' 
 to the bottom, fome reports which I had heard 
 concerning Mr. B — — , I went to his old friend. 
 
 G 6 Mr. 
 
Mr. G an Ifraelite indeed, but worn almoli. 
 
 to a fkeleton. After I had explained to him the 
 motives of my enquiry, he fpoke without referve. 
 And if his account be true, that hot, four man, 
 does well to hold fall his opinion ; for it is all 
 the religion he has. 
 
 Monday 7 . 1 went on to Yarmouth, and found 
 “ Confufion worfe confounded.” Not only B — 
 W — ’s fociety was come to nothing, but ours 
 feemed to be fwiftly following. They had almoft 
 all left the church again, being full of prejudice 
 againfl the clergv and againft one another. How- 
 ever as two or three retained their humble, 
 fitnple love, I doubled not but there would be a 
 bleflingin the remnant. My fir ff bnunefs was to 
 reconcile them to each other : and this was ef- 
 fecfually done, by hearing the contending par- 
 ties, fir ff feparately, and afterwards face to face. 
 It remained, to reconcile them to the church; 
 and this was done partly by arguments, partly 
 by pcrfuafion. 
 
 Friday 1 1. We fet out at three in the morning, 
 but did not reach Bury till pad feven in the even- 
 ing. The people being ready I began preach- 
 ing immediately. Many feemed really defirous 
 to fave their fouls. The next day we went on to 
 London. 
 
 Sunday 13. I was defired to preach a funeral 
 fermon for W — O — . He came to London near 
 thirty years ago, and from nothing increafed more 
 and more, till he was worth feveral thoufand 
 
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 pounds. He was a good man, and died in peace, 
 Neverthelefs, I believe his money was a great 
 clog to him, and kept him in a poor, low ftate 
 all his days, making no fuch advance as he 
 might have done, either in holinefs or happi- 
 nefs. 
 
 To-day I found a little forenefs on the edge of 
 my tongue, which the next day fpread to my 
 gums, then to my lips, which inflamed, fwelled, 
 and the fkin burffing, bled confiderably. After- 
 ward the roof of my mouth was extremely fore, 
 fo that I could chew nothing. To this was added 
 a continual fpitting. I knew a little reft would 
 cure all. But this was not to be had ; for I had 
 appointed to be at Sheernefs on Wednefday the 
 i6tb. According I took horfe between five and 
 fix, and came thither between five and fix in the 
 evening. At half an hour after fix I began read- 
 ing prayers, (the governor of the fort having gi- 
 ven me the ufe of the chapel) and afterwards 
 preached, though not without difficulty, to a 
 large and ferious congregation. The next even- 
 ing it was confiderably increafed, fo that the cha- 
 pel was as hot as an oven. In coming out, the 
 air being exceeding fharp, quite took away my 
 voice, fo that I knew not how I fhould be able 
 the next day, to read prayers or preach to fo 
 large a congregation. But in the afternoon the 
 good governor cut the knot, fending word, “ I 
 muft preach in the chapel no more.” A room 
 
 being 
 
[ »s8 ] 
 
 being offered, which held full as many people a3 
 I was able to preach to, we had a comfortable 
 hour, and many feemed refolved, to feek the Lord 
 while he may be found . 
 
 Examining the fociety, confining of four or 
 five and thirty members, I had the comfort to 
 find many of them knew in whom they had be- 
 lieved. And all of them feemed really defirous 
 to^adorn the doftrine of God their Saviour. 
 
 Such a town as many of thefe live in, is fcarce 
 to be found again in England. In the dock ad- 
 joining to the fort, there are fix old men of war. 
 Thefe are divided into fmall tenements, forty, 
 fifty or fixty in a fhip, with little chimnies and 
 windows and each of thefe contains a family. In 
 one of them, where urn called, a man and his 
 wife, and fix little children lived. And yet all the 
 fhip was fweet and tolerably clean, fweeter than 
 moft failing {hips I have been in. Saturday 19. 
 I returned to London. 
 
 Saturday 26. I vifited poor Mrs. H. whofe 
 wild hufband has very' near murdered her, bv ve- 
 hemently affirming, “ It was revealed to him, 
 that {he ffiould die before fuch a day.” Indeed 
 the day is part ; but her weak, nervous conftitu- 
 tion is fo deeply ffiockedbyit, that fhe ftiil keeps 
 her bed, and perhaps will feel it all the days of 
 her life. 
 
 Saturday, January 2, 1768. I called on a poor 
 man in the Marfhalfea, whofe cafe appeared to 
 
 be 
 
[ 1 59 J 
 
 be uncommon. He is by birth a Dutchman, a 
 chymift by profeffion. Being but half employed 
 at home, he was advifed to come to London, 
 where he doubted not of having full employment. 
 He was recommended to a countryman of his to 
 lodge, who after fix weeks arrefled him, for 
 much more than he owed, and hurried him away 
 to prifon, having a wife near her time, without 
 money, friend, or a word of Englifh to fpeak. I 
 
 wrote the cafe to Mr. T , who immediately 
 
 gave fifteen pounds, by means of which with a 
 little addition, he was fet at liberty, and put in 
 a way of living. But I never faw him fince. 
 And reafon good; for he could now live without 
 me. 
 
 Monday 4. At my leifure hours this week, I 
 read Dr. Priefllj ’s ingenious book on ele&ricity. 
 He feems to have accurately collefted and well 
 digefled, all that is known on that curious fub- 
 je£t. But how little is that all ! Indeed the ufe 
 of it we know ; at leaff, in fome good degree. 
 We know it is a thoufand medicines in one ; in 
 particular, that is the molt efficacious medicine, 
 in nervous diforders of every kind, which has 
 ever yet been difcovered. But if we aim at theo- 
 ry, we know nothing. We are foon 
 
 “ Loft and bewilder’d in the fruitlefs fearch.” 
 
 Monday 11, This week I fpent my fcraps of 
 
 time 
 
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 time in reading Mr. Wodrow’s hiftory of the 
 fufferings of the church of Scotland. It would 
 tranfcend belief, but that the vouchers are too 
 authentic, to admit of any exception. O what a 
 bieffed governor, was that good-natured man, fo 
 called, King Charles the fecond ! Bloody Queen 
 Mary was a lamb, a mere dove, in comparifonof 
 him 1 
 
 Monday 25. And the following days, in the 
 intervals of more important work, 1 carefully 
 read the pleadings at Edinburgh, in the famous 
 Douglas caufe. So intricate a one I never 
 heard, I never read of before. I cannot but 
 believe the birth was real. But the objections are 
 fo numerous, and fo hrongly urged, I cannot 
 at all wonder that many fhould believe other- 
 wife. 
 
 * Monday, February 8. I met with a furprifing 
 poem, intitled, Choheleth ; or, The Preacher. 
 It is a paraphrafe in tolerable verfe, on the book 
 of Ecclefiaftes. I really think the author of it, 
 (aTurky merchant) underhands both the difficult 
 expreffions, and the connexion of the whole, 
 better than any other, either antient or modern 
 writer, whom I have feen. He was at Lifbon 
 during the great earthquake, juh then fitting in 
 his night-gowm and flippers. Before he could 
 drefs himfelf, part of the houfe he was in, fell 
 and blocked him up. By this means his life was 
 faved : for all who had run out, were daffied in 
 pieces by the falling houfes. 
 
 Thurfday 
 
[ i6i ] 
 
 Thurfday 18. Having been importunately 
 preft thereto, I rode (through a keen eaflwind) 
 to Chatham. About fix in the evening I preached 
 at the barracks, in what they cal), the church. It 
 is a large room, in which the chaplain reads 
 prayers, and preaches now and then. It was foon 
 as hot as an oven through the multitude of peo- 
 ple, fome hundreds of whom were foldiers. And 
 they were all ear , as Mr. Boflon fays, fcarce al- 
 lowing themfelves to breathe. Even between five 
 and fix the next morning, the room was warm 
 enough. 1 fuppofe upwards of two hundred fol- 
 diers were a part of the audience. Many of thefe 
 are already warring a good warfare, knowing in 
 whom they have believed. 
 
 Tuefday 23. I rode to Shoreham and preached 
 at five in Mr. P.’s houfe: but the next day I 
 preached in the church, being St. Matthias’ day. 
 I then rode back to a large room, which is taken 
 in Redriff, above three miles from London- 
 bridge. Although the people were flrangely 
 fqueezed together, yet they appeared to be all 
 attention. Not a cough was to be heard. I 
 flrongly exhorted them, To call upon the Lord 
 while he is near. And when I had concluded, 
 no one offered to move, but every one flood 
 flill in his place, till I had paffed through them. 
 
 Friday 26. I tranflated from the French one of 
 the moft ufeful trafls I ever faw, for thofe who 
 defire to be fervent in fpirit. How little does 
 God regard mens opinions ! What a multitude 
 
 ef 
 
[ > 6 * ] 
 
 of wrong opinions are embraced by all the mem- 
 bers of the church of Rome ? Yet how highly 
 favoured have many of them been ? 
 
 Monday 29. I dined at Mr. M ’s. His 
 
 ftrangenefs is now gone. He has drank of my 
 cup. Reproach has at length found out him alfo. 
 
 Afterwards I fpent an hour at Mr. G ’s. I 
 
 can truft myfelf about once a year in this warm 
 fun fhine ; but not much oftener, or I Ihould 
 melt away. 
 
 Sunday, March 6. In the evening I went to 
 Brentford, and on Tuefday 8, reached Briftol, 
 where I did not find any decay in the work of 
 God, though it did not go on fo vigoroufly as at 
 Kingfwood. Here the meetings for prayer had 
 been exceedingly bleft : fome were convinced or 
 converted almoft daily. And near feventv new 
 members had been added to the fociety, in about 
 three months time. The fchool likewife is in a 
 flourifhing condition. Several of the chil- 
 dren continue ferious : and all of them are 
 
 in better order than they have been for fome 
 years. 
 
 Monday 14. I fet out on my northern jour- 
 ney, and p-eacbed at Stroud in the evening. 
 Tuefday 15. About noon I preached at Painf- 
 wick, and in the evening at Glocefier. The mob 
 here was for a confiderable time both noify and 
 mifchievous. But an honed magiftrate, taking 
 the matter in hand, quickly tamed the beads of 
 
 the 
 
[ i6 3 3 
 
 the people. So may any magiftrate, if he will : fo 
 that wherever a mob continues anytime, all they 
 do is to be imputed, not fo much to the rabble, 
 as to the jufiices. 
 
 Wednefday to. About nine I preached at 
 Cheltenham, a quiet, comfortable place ; though 
 it would not have been fo, if either the reftor or 
 the baptift minifler could have prevented. Both 
 thefe have blown the trumpet with their might : 
 but the people had no ears to hear. In the af- 
 ternoon I preached at Upton, and then rode on 
 to Worcefter. But the difficulty was, where to 
 preach ? No room was large enough to contain 
 the people: and it was too cold for them to hand 
 abroad. At length we went to a friend’s near the 
 town, whofe barn was larger than many 
 churches. Here a numerous congregation foon 
 affembled ; and again at five, and at ten in the 
 morning. Nothing is wanting here, but a com- 
 modious houfe. And will not God provide this 
 alfo? 
 
 In the afternoon we rode to Evefham. As all 
 was liurry and confufion on account of the elec- 
 tion, I was glad Mr. D. aiked me to preach in his 
 church, where we had a large and exceeding 
 quiet congregation. How long a winter has been 
 at this place P Will not the fpring at length re- 
 turn ? 
 
 Friday 18. The vicar of Pebworth had given 
 notice in the church on Sunday, that I was to 
 preach there on Friday. But the Tquire of the 
 
 parifh 
 
[ i6 4 ] 
 
 parifh faid, “ It is contrary to the canons, (wife 
 ’fquire !) and it fball not be.” So I preached 
 about a mile from it, at Broadmarflon, by the 
 fide of Mr. Eden’s houfe. The congregation was 
 exceeding large, and remarkably attentive. In 
 the morning the chapel (fo it anciently was) 
 was well filled at five. The fimplicity and 
 earneflnefs of the people, promife a glorious 
 harveft. 
 
 Saturday 19. We rode to Birmingham. The 
 tumults which fubfifled here fo many years are 
 now wholly fuppreffed by a refolute magiftrate. 
 * After preaching, I was pleafed to fee a venera- 
 ble monument of antiquity, George Bridgins, in 
 the one hundred and feventh year of his age. 
 He can flill walk to the preaching, and retains 
 hisfenfes and underflanding tolerably well. But 
 what a dream will even a life of an hundred 
 years appear to him, the moment he awakes in 
 eternity ! 
 
 Sunday 20. About one I preached on Weft- 
 Bromwich-Heath : in the evening near the 
 preaching- houfe in Wednefbury. The north 
 wind cut like a razor: but the congrega- 
 tion, as well as me, had fomething elfe to 
 think of. 
 
 Tuefday 22 . 1 read over afmall book, “ Poems 
 by Mifs Whately,” a farmer’s daughter. She 
 had little advantage from education, but an afto- 
 nifhing genius. Some of her elegies I think 
 
[ l6 5 ] 
 
 quite equal to Mr. Grey’s. If fhe had had pro- 
 per helps for a few years, I queftion whether (he 
 would not have excelled any female poet, that 
 ever yet appeared in England. 
 
 Wednefday 23. After preaching at feveral 
 other places, I rode on to Wolverhampton. 
 Here too all was quiet. Only thofe who could 
 not get into the houfe, made a little noife for a 
 time. And fome hundreds attended me to my 
 lodging. But it was with no other intent than to 
 flare. 
 
 Turfday 24. I rode to Newcaflle-under-Line 
 fa river fo called) one of the prettiefl towns in 
 England. Many here already know themfelves; 
 not a few know Chrift. The largenefs of the 
 congregation conflrained me, though it was very 
 cold, to preach in the open air, on God command- 
 eth all men, every where, to repent. I fcarce ever 
 faw a more attentive, or better behaved congre- 
 gation. 
 
 Friday 25. I turned afide a little to Borflem, 
 and preached in the new houfe. That at Congle- 
 ton is about the fame ftze, but better contrived, 
 and better finifhed. We had an elegant congre- 
 gation at Congleton, yet earneflly attentive. It 
 feems the behaviour of the fociety in this town, 
 has convinced all the people in it, but the cu- 
 rate : who Hill refufes to give the facrament to 
 any that will not piomife to hear thefe preachers 
 no more. 
 
 Saturday 26. We rode to Macclesfield. Sun- 
 day 
 
[ 1 66 ] 
 
 day 27. At eleven, one of the minifters preached | 
 aufeful fermon, as did the other in the afternoon. 
 At five in the evening we had thoufands upon 
 thoufands. And all were ferious, while I in- 
 forced, Now is the day of falvalion ! 
 
 Monday 28. I met the ftewards of the feveral 
 focieties at Manchefter. The times of out- j 
 ward diftrefs are now over. God has given us 1 
 plenty of all things. It remains only, to give our- | 
 felves up to him, who giveth us all things richly 
 to enjoy. 
 
 Tuefday 29. I preached in Stockport at noon, j 
 and Manchefter in the evening. Wednefday 30. 1 
 I rode to a little town called New Mills, in the 
 High Peak of Derbylhire. I preached at noon, i 
 in their large, new chapel, which (in confidera- ; 
 tion that preachingboufes have need of air) has ,1 
 -a cafement, in every window, three inches t 
 fquare ! That is the cuftom of the country 1 
 
 In the evening and the following morning, I 
 brought ftrange things to the ears of many in 
 Manchefter, concerning the government of their 
 families, and the education of their children, 
 
 * Butfome Hill made that very filly anfwer, “ O, 
 he has no children of his own.” Neither had St. 
 Paul, nor (that we knowj any of the apoftles. 1 
 What then ? Were the)’ therefore unable to in- 
 ftruft parents ? Not fo. They were able to in- j 
 ftruft every one, that had a foul to be faved. 
 
 Saturday, April 2. I preached at Little-Leigh, j 
 
 and . 
 
[ i6 7 ] 
 
 and in the evening at Chefter. At eight in the 
 morning, (Eafter-day) I took my old hand, in 
 the little fquare at St. Martin’s-Alh. The people 
 were as quiet as in the houfe. While I hayed 
 here, I correfted Mifs Gilbert’s journal, a maher- 
 piece in its kind. What a prodigy of a child ! 
 Soon ripe, and foon gone 1 
 
 Tuefday 5. About noon I preached at War- 
 rington; I am afraid, not to the tafte of fome 
 of my hearers, as my fubjedl led me to fpeak 
 ftrongly and explicitly on the godhead of Chrift. 
 But that I cannot help; for on this I infill, 
 as the foundation of all our hope. 
 
 Wednefday 6. About eleven I preached at 
 Wigan, in a place near the middle of the town, 
 which I fuppofe was formerly a playhoufe. It 
 was very full, and very warm. Moll of the con- 
 gregation were wild as wild might be; yet none 
 made the leaft dihurbance. Afterwards as I 
 walked down the ftreet, they hared fufficiently ; 
 but none faid an uncivil word. 
 
 In the evening we had an huge congregation 
 at Liverpool. But fome pretty, gay, buttering 
 things, did not behave with lo much good manners 
 as the mob at Wigan. The congregations in ge- 
 neral were quite well-behaved, as well as large, 
 both morning and evening. And I found the fo- 
 ciety both more numerous and more lively, than 
 ever it was before. 
 
 Sunday 10. I rode to Prefcot, eight miles from 
 Liverpool, and came thither juft as the church 
 
 began. 
 
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 began. The vicar preached an excellent fermon, 
 on, Whatfoever is born of God, overcometh the 
 world. And this is the vidlory that overcometh the 
 world, even our faith. After fervice, many fol- 
 lowed me to a vacant place, where we were to- 
 lerably fheltered from the cold wind. Fifty or 
 fixty of our Liverpool friends alfo were there, 
 who had walked over. And God made it both 
 a folemn and a comfortable opportunity to many 
 fouls. 
 
 Monday 11. I rode to Bolton ; on Wednefday 
 to Kendal. Seceders and mongrel Methodifls, 
 have fo furfeited the people here, that there is 
 fmall profpefl of doing good. However I once 
 more cajl my bread upon the waters, and left the 
 event to God. 
 
 Thurfday 14. I rode on, through continued 
 rain, to Amblefide. It cleared up before we 
 came to Kefwick, and we fet out thence in a 
 fair day. But on the mountains the ftorm met 
 us again, which beat on us fo impetuoufly, that 
 our horfes could fcarce turn their faces againft 
 it. However we made fhift to reach Cocker- 
 mouth. But there was no room for preaching, 
 the town being in an uproar, through the eleflion 
 for members of parliament. So after drying 
 ourfelves, we thought it befl to go on to White- 
 haven. 
 
 I found the fociety here more alive to God 
 than it had been for feveral years. And God has 
 chofen the weak to make them {Irons; : the 
 
 O 
 
 change 
 
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 change has been wrought chiefly by means of 
 Jofeph G. Many of the children likewife are 
 ferious and well-behaved, and fome of them feem 
 to be awakened. Sunday 17 . 1 commended them 
 to the grace of God, and rode to Cockermouth. 
 I haddefigned to preach near the market-houfe ; 
 but the rain conflrained us to go into the houfe ; 
 where I explained (out of the firft Jeffon) Let me 
 die the death of the righteous. In the evening I 
 preached at Coldbeck, in the mountains, to an 
 exceeding ferious congregation. Monday 18. 
 Taking horfe at four, I reached Solway-frith be- 
 fore eight, and finding a guide ready, croffed 
 without delay, dined at Dumfries, and then went 
 
 to Dtumlanric. 
 
 Tuefday 19. I rode through heavy rain to 
 Glafgow. On Thurfday and Friday, I fpoke to 
 mofl of the members of the fociety. I doubt we 
 have few focieties in Scotland like this : the 
 greater part of thofe I faw, not only have found 
 peace with God, but continue to walk in the 
 light of his countenance. Indeed that wife and 
 
 good man Mr. G , has been of great fer- 
 
 vice to them : encouraging them by all poflible 
 means to abide in the grace of God. 
 
 Saturday 23. I rode over the mountains to 
 Perth. I had received magnificient accounts of 
 the work of God in this place ; fo that I ex- 
 pended to find a numerous and lively fociety. 
 Inftead of this, I found not above two believers, 
 and fcarce five awakened perfons in it. Finding I 
 Vol. XXXII. H had 
 
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 had all to begin, I fpoke exceeding plain in the 
 evening to about an hundred perfons at the 
 room. But knowing this was doing nothing, on 
 Sunday 24. I preached about eight at the end of 
 Watergate. A multitude of people were foon 
 aflembled, to whom I cried aloud, Seek ye the 
 Lord, while he may be found ; call upon him while 
 he is near. All were deeply attentive, and I had 
 a little hope, that fome were profited. 
 
 At the Old Kirk we had ufeful fermons, both 
 in the morning, and at five in the afternoon, 
 immediately after fervice, I preached on, God 
 forbid that I fioutd glory ,fave in the crofs oj our 
 Lord Jcfus Chriji. The congregation was io 
 exceeding large, that I doubt many could not 
 hear. After preaching, I explained the na- 
 ture of a Methodif fociety : adding, that I 
 fhould not look on any perfons at Perth 
 as fuch, unlefs they fpoke to me before 
 I left the city. Four men and four wo- 
 
 men did fpeak to me, two of whom I think 
 were believers : and one or two more feemed 
 juft awakening, and darkly feeling after God. In 
 truth, the kingdom of God among thefe, is as yet 
 but as a grain of mufiard-feed. 
 
 Monday 25. Mr. Ff , minifier of a neigh- 
 
 bouring parifli, defired us to breakfaft with him : 
 I found him a ferious, benevolent, fenfible man, 
 not bigotted to any opinions. I did not reach 
 
 Brehcin, 
 
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 Brechin, till it was too late to preach. Tuefday 
 26. I came to Aberdeen. 
 
 Here I found a fociety truly alive, knit toge- 
 ther in peace and love. The congregations were 
 large both morning and evening, and as ufual, 
 deeply attentive. But a company of Broiling 
 players, who have at length found place here 
 alfo, hole away the gay part of the hearers. 
 Poor Scotland I Poor Aberdeen ! This only was 
 wanting, to make them as compleatly irreligious 
 as England. 
 
 * Friday 29. I read over an extremely fenfible 
 book ; but one that furprized me much. It is, 
 “ An enquiry into the proofs of the charges com- 
 monly advanced againfl Mary Queen of Scot- 
 land.” By means of original papers, lie has 
 made it more clear than one would imagine it 
 poffible at this diflance, x. That fire was alto- 
 gether innocent of the murder of Lord Darnley, 
 and no way privy to it: 2. That fhe married 
 Lord Bothwell, (then near feventy years old, her- 
 felf but four and twenty) from the preffing in- 
 flanceof the nobility in a bod}-, who at the fame 
 time affix red her, “ He was innocent of the 
 king’s murder.” 3. That Murray, Morton and 
 Lethington, thernfelves contrived that murder, 
 in order to charge it upon her, as well as forged 
 thofe vile letters and fonnets, which they palmed 
 upon the world for hers.” 
 
 “ But how then can we account for the quite 
 H 2 contrary 
 
C **» 3 
 
 contrary ftory, which has been almoll univerfaUy 
 received ?” Moft eafily. It was penned and pub- 
 lifhed in French, Englifh and Latin, (by Queen 
 Elizabeth’s order) by George Buchanan, who 
 was fecretary to Lord Murray, and in Queen 
 Elizabeth’s pay. So he was fure to throw dirt 
 enough : nor was (he at liberty to anfwer for her- 
 felf. “ But what then was Queen Elizabeth ?” 
 As juft and merciful as Nero, and as good a 
 Chriftian as Mahomet. 
 
 Sunday, May 1. I preached at feven in the 
 New Room : in the afternoon at the College- 
 kirk in Old Aberdeen. At fix, knowing our 
 houfe could not contain the congregation, I 
 preached in the caftle-gate on the paved ftones. 
 A large number of people were all attention: 
 but there were many rude, ftupid creatures round 
 about them, who knew as little of reafon as of 
 religion : I never faw fuch brutes in Scotland 
 before. One of them threw a potatoe, which fell 
 on my arm. I turned to them : and fome were 
 afhamed. 
 
 Monday 2. I fet out early from Aberdeen, and 
 about r.oon preached in Brechin. After fermon, 
 the provoft defired to fee me ; and faid, “ Sir, 
 my foil had epileptic fits from his infancy. Dr. 
 Ogylvie prefrribed for him many times, and at 
 length told me, he could do no more. I de- 
 fined Mr. Blair laft Monday to {peak to you. 
 On Tuefday morning my fon faid to his mo- 
 ther, 
 
[ *73 ] 
 
 ther, he had juft been dreaming, that his fits 
 were gone, and he was perfe&ly well. Soon 
 after I gave him the drops you advifed, He 
 is perfe&ly well, and has not had one fit fince.’’ 
 In the evening I preached to a large congrega- 
 tion at Dundee. They heard attentively, but 
 feemed to feel nothing. The next evening I 
 fpoke more ftrongly, and to their hearts rather 
 than their underftanding : and I believe a feu- 
 felt the word of God fliarp as a two-edged 
 fword. 
 
 Thurfdav 5. We rode through the pleafimt 
 and fruitful Carfe of Gowry, a plain fifteen or 
 fixteen miles long, between the river Tay and 
 the mountains, very thick inhabited, to Perth. 
 In the afternoon, we walked over to the royal 
 palace at Scoon. It is a large old houfe, delight- 
 fully fituated, but fwiflfy tunning to ruin. Yet 
 there are a few good pifitures, and fome fine 
 tapiftry left, in what they call the Queen’s, 
 and the King’s chambers. And what is far 
 more, curious, there is a bed and a fet of hang- 
 ings, in the (once) royal apartment, which was 
 wrought by poor Queen Mary, while fhe was 
 imprifoned in the caftle of Lochlevin. It is 
 fome of the fineft needle- work I ever faw, and 
 plainly fhews, both her exquifite {kill and un- 
 wearied induftry. 
 
 About this time a remarkable work of God 
 broke out among the children at Kingfwood 
 H 3 fchooh 
 
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 fchool. One of the matters fent me a fhort ac- 
 count of it, as follows: 
 
 April 27, 1768, 
 
 “ Rev. and dear Sir, 
 
 “ On Wednefday the 20th, God broke in 
 “ upon our boys in a furprizing manner. A 
 “ ferious concern has been obfervable in fame 
 “ of them for fome time patt. But that night, 
 “ while they were in their private apartments, 
 “ the power of God came upon them, even 
 “ like a mighty, rufhing wind, which made 
 “ them cry aloud for mercy. Lail night, I 
 “ hope, will never be forgotten, when about 
 “ twenty were in the utmott diftrefs. But 
 “ God quickly fpoke peace to two of them, 
 
 .< j G1 1, and T M e. 
 
 “ A greater difplay of his love, I never faw : 
 “ they indeed rejoice with joy unfpeakable. 
 “ For my own part, I have not often felt the 
 “ like power. We have no need to exhort 
 “ them to prav ; for that fpirit runs through 
 “ the whole fchool; fo that this houfe may 
 “ well be called, An Houfe of Prayer. V\ hile 
 “ I am writing, the cries of the boys from 
 “ their feveral apartments are founding in my 
 “ ears. There are many ftdl lying at the pool, 
 “ who wait every moment to be put in. 
 “ They are come to this, “ Lord, I will not, 
 
 “ I cannot 
 
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 “ I cannot reft without thy love.” Since 
 “ I began to write, eight more are fet at 
 “ liberty, and now rejoice in God their Sa- 
 “ viour. The names of thefe are John 
 
 “ Coward, John Lion, John Maddern, John 
 “ Boddily, John Thurgar, Charles Brown, 
 “ William Higham, and Robert Hindmarfh. 
 41 Their age is from eight to foutteen. There 
 “ are but few who withftand the work, nor 
 44 is it likely they fhould do it long. For 
 
 “ the prayers of thofe that believe in Chrift, 
 “ feem to carry all before them. Among the 
 “ colliers likewife the w'ork of God increafes 
 “ greatly : two of the colliers boys were 
 “ juftified this week. The number added to the 
 “ fociety fince the conference is an hundred 
 “ and thirty. 
 
 “ I had fealed my letter, but have opened 
 “ it to inform you, that two more of our chii- 
 “ dren have found peace. Several others 
 “ are under deep conviflion. Some of our 
 “ friends from Briftol are here, who are 
 “ thunderftruck. This is the day we have 
 “ wifhed for fo long, the day you have had 
 “ in view, which has made you go through fo 
 “ much oppofition, for the good ol thefe 
 44 poor children. 
 
 James Hindmarfh.” 
 
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 “ A few 
 
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 A few days after, one wrote thus : 
 
 “ I cannot help congratulating you on the 
 “ happy fituation of votir family here. The 
 “ power of God continues to work, with 
 “ almofl irrefiffible force. And there is good 
 “ reafon to hope, it will not be withdrawn, 
 “ till every foul is converted to God . — 1 have 
 “ had frequent opportunities of converfmg 
 “ alone with the boys, and find the work has 
 *' taken deep root in many hearts. The houfe 
 “ rings with praife and prayer, and the whole 
 u behaviour of the children flrongly fpeaks for 
 “ God. The number of the new-born is in* 
 “ creafed fince you received your laft infor- 
 *• matioji. I have been a witnefs of part: 
 11 but the whole exceeds all that language can 
 “ paint.” 
 
 Another writes, May 18. “ The work of 
 
 “ God hill goes on at Kingfwood. Of the 
 “ hundred and thirty members who have been 
 
 added to the fociety fince the lad confe- 
 “ rence, the greater part have received jufti- 
 “ fying faith, and are ftill rejoicing in God 
 “ their Saviour : and (what is the mod re- 
 “ markable) I do not know of one backflider in 
 “ the place. The outpouring of the Spirit on 
 “ the children in the fchool, has been exceed- 
 “ ing great. I believe, there is not one among 
 
 “ them, 
 
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 “ them, who has not been affe&ed, more or 
 “ lefs. Twelve of them have found peace 
 “ with God : and fome, in a very remarkable 
 “ manner. Thefe have no more doubt of the 
 “ favour of God, than of their own exiftence. 
 “ And the Lord is ilill with them, though not 
 *' fo powerfully, as he was two or three weeks 
 “ fince.” 
 
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 A N 
 
 E X 
 
 TRACT 
 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Mr. John Wesley’s 
 
 j 0 
 
 U R N A L 
 
 From M A Y 
 
 14, 1768, toSlETEMBER 1 . 
 177°. 
 
 Number XIV. 
 
 Saturday, May 14, 1768. 
 
 I Walked once more through Holyrood-houfe, 
 a noble pile of building ; but the greateft part 
 
 of it left to itfelf, and fo (like the palace at Scone) 
 
 fwiftly 
 
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 fwiftly running to ruin. The tapiftrv is duty 
 and quite faded ; the fine ceilings dropping down; 
 and many of the piftures in the gallery, torn or 
 cut through. This was the work of good Gene- 
 ral Hawley’s foldiers, (like General, like men !) 
 who after running away from the Scots at 
 Falkirk, revenged themfelves on the harmlefs 
 canvafs ! 
 
 Sunday 15. At eight I preached in the High- 
 fchool-yard ; and I believe not a few of the 
 hearers were cut to the heart. Between twelve 
 and one a far larger congregation affembled on 
 the Caftle-hill. And I believe my voice com- 
 manded them all, while I opened and enforced 
 thofe awful words, Ifaw the dead fmall and great 
 ftand before God. In the evening our houfe was 
 fufficiently crowded, even with the rich and 
 honourable. Who hath warned thefe to fee from 
 the wrath to come ? O may they at length awake 
 and arife from the dead ! 
 
 Monday 16. I preached in the evening at 
 Dunbar, near the fhore, to an unufually large 
 congregation. Tuefday 17. I looked over Dr. 
 Shaw’s travels : great part of them is very dull 
 and unentertaining : but fome remarks are ex- 
 tremely curious. I was a little furprized at one 
 of them : namely, that the celebrated mount At- 
 las is not higher that many of our Englifh moun- 
 tains, and nothing near fo high as the Alps. But 
 it was much farther from Rome. So travellers 
 H 6 might 
 
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 might make it as high as the moon ; and few in 
 Italy could contradifi them. 
 
 Wedpefday 18. I came to poor dead Berwick. 
 However I found a few living fouls even here. 
 At feven I preached in the town-hall, to an ex- 
 ceeding ferious, though not numerous, congre- 
 gation. The next evening I preached in the 
 market-place at Ainwick. Friday 20, I went on 
 in reading that fine book, Bifhop Butler’s Ana- 
 logy. But I doubt it is too hard for mofi of thofe, 
 for whom it was chiefly intended. Free thinkers, 
 fo called, are feldom clofe thinkers. They will 
 not be at the pains of reading fuch a book as 
 this. One that would profit them, mull dilute 
 his fenfe, or they will neither fwallow nor digefl 
 
 it- 
 
 Saturday 21, About noon I preached at Mor- 
 peth, and in the evening at Newcaflle, in the Old 
 Cuflom-houfe, a large commodious room near the 
 Key- fide, the grand refort of Publicans and Sin- 
 ners. Sunday 22, I preached in the morning 
 under the trees in Gatefhead, to a large and feri- 
 ous multitude : and at two, on The Fell, to a 
 much larger. But the largefl of ail attended 
 at the Garth- heads in the evening. And great 
 part of them were not curious hearers, but well 
 acquainted with the things of the kingdom of 
 God. 
 
 Wednefday 25, and the two following days, 
 being at Sunderland, I took down from one who 
 had feared God from her infancy, one of the 
 
 flrangefl 
 
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 flrangeft accounts I ever read. And yet I caA 
 find no pretence to difbelie ve it. The well- 
 known character of the perfon, excludes all fuf- 
 picion of fraud. And the nature of the circum- 
 fiances themfelves, excludes the poflibility of a 
 delufion. 
 
 It is true there are feveral of them, which I do 
 not comprehend. But this is with me a very flen- 
 der objedlion. For what is it which I do compre- 
 hend, even of the things I fee daily ? Truly 
 not 
 
 “ The fmalleft grain of fandor fpire of grafs.” 
 
 I know not how the one grows, or how the par- 
 ticles of the other cohere together. What pre- 
 tence have I ihen to deny well-attefted fa£ls, be- 
 caufe I cannot comprehend them ? 
 
 It is true likewife : that the Englifh in gener- 
 al, and indeed moft of the men of learning in 
 Europe, have given up all accounts of witches 
 and apperitions, as mere old wives fables. I am 
 forry for it : and I willingly take this opportu- 
 nity of entering my folemn proteff, againlt this 
 violent compliment, which fo many that believe 
 the bible pay, to thofe who do not believe it. I 
 owe them no fuch fervice. I take knowledge, thefe 
 are at the bottom of the outcry which has been 
 raifed, and with fuch infolence fpread throughout 
 the nation, in dire£I oppofidon not only to the 
 bible, but to the fuffrage of the wifeft and bell of 
 
 men 
 
[ i8a } 
 
 men in all ages and nations. They welt know, 
 (whether Chriftians know it, or not) that the giv- 
 ing up witchcraft, is in effefd, giving up the 
 bible. And they know, on the other hand, that if 
 but one account of the intercourfe of men with 
 feparate fpirits be admitted, their whole caftle in 
 the air, (deifm, atheifm, materialifm) falls to the 
 ground. I know no reafon therefore, why we 
 fhould fuffer even this weapon to be wrefled out 
 of our hands. Indeed there are numerous argu- 
 ments befides, which abundantly confute their vain 
 imaginations. But we need not be hooted out of 
 one : neither reafon nor religion require this. 
 
 One of the capital objeftions to all thefe ac- 
 counts, which I have know urged over, and over 
 is this, “ Did you ever fee an apparition your- 
 felf ?” No : nor did I ever fee a murder. Yet I 
 believe there is fuch a thing : yea, and that in 
 one place or another murder is committed every 
 day. Therefore I cannot as a reafonable man deny 
 the fa£t ; although I never faw it, and perhaps 
 never may. The teftimony of unexceptionable 
 witnefTes fully convinces me both of the one and 
 the other. 
 
 But to fet this afide, it has been confidently 
 alledged, That many of thefe have feen their 
 error, and have been clearly convinced, that the 
 fuppofed preternatural operation was the mere 
 contrivance of artful men. The famous inflance 
 of this, which has been fpread far and wide, was 
 the drumming in Mr, MompefTon’s houfe at 
 
 Tedworth; 
 
Tedworth ; who it was faid acknowledged, “ It 
 was all a trick, and that he had found out the 
 whole contrivance.” Not fo. My eldeft brother 
 then at Chrift-Church, Oxon, enquired of Mr. 
 Mompelfon, his fellow collegian, “ whether Iris' 
 father had acknowledged this or not ?” He an- 
 fwered, “ The refort of gentlemen to my father’s 
 houfe, was fo great, he could not bear the ex- 
 pence. He therefore took no pains to confute 
 the report that he had found out the cheat : al- 
 though he, and I, and all the family knew, the 
 account which was publilhed to be punctually 
 true.” 
 
 This premifed, I proceed to as remarkable a 
 narrative, as any that has fallen under my notice. 
 The reader may believe it if he pleafes : or may 
 difbelieve it, without any offence tome. Mean- 
 time let him not be offended if I believe it, till I 
 fee better reafon to the contrary. — I have added 
 a few fhort remarks which may make fome paf- 
 fages a little more intelligible. 
 
 l. Elizabeth Hobfon was born in Sunderland, 
 in the year 1744. Her father dying when fhe 
 was three or four years old, her uncle, Thomas 
 Rea, a pious man brought her up as his own 
 daughter. She was ferious from a child, and grew 
 up in the fear of God. Yet fhe had deep and 
 (harp conviftions of fin, till fhe was about fix- 
 teen years of age when fhe found peacejwith God, 
 and from that time the whole tenour of her be- 
 haviour was fuitable to her profeffiom 
 
 On 
 
[ i8 4 ] 
 
 On Wednefday, May 25, 1768, and the three 
 following days, I talked with her at large. But 
 it was with great difficulty I prevailed on her to 
 fpeak. The fubftance of what ffie faid was as fol- 
 lows. 
 
 2. “ From my childhood, when any of our 
 neighbours died, whether men, women or child- 
 ren, I ufed to fee them either juft when they died 
 or a little before. And I was not frightened at all 
 it was fo common. Indeed many times I did not 
 then know they were dead. I faw many of them 
 by day, many by night. Thofe that came when 
 it was dark, brought light with them. I obferv- 
 ed all little children and many grown perfons 
 had a bright, glorious light round them. But 
 many had a gloomy, difmal light, and a dufky 
 cloud over them. 
 
 3. When I told my uncle this he did not 
 feem to be at all furprized at il+. But at feveral 
 times he faid, “ Be not afraid : only take care 
 to fear and ferve God. As long as he is on your 
 fide, none will be able to hurt you.” At other 
 times he faid, (dropping a word now and then, 
 but feldom anfwering me any queftions about it) 
 “ Evil fpirits very feldom appear, but between 
 eleven as night and two in the morning. But 
 after they have appeared to aperfon a year, they 
 frequently come in the day time. Whatever 
 
 fpirits, 
 
 + It appears highly probable, that he was himfelf cxpeiiment- 
 ally acquainted with thefe things. 
 
[ ] 
 
 fpirits, good or bad, come in the day, they come 
 at fun-rife, at noon, or atfun-fet 
 
 4. When I was between twelve and thirteen, 
 my uncle had a lodger, who was a very wicked 
 man. One night I was fitting in my chamber, 
 about half hour after ten, having by accident put 
 out my candle, when became in, all over on a 
 flame. I cried out, “ William, why do you come 
 in fo to fright me ?” He faid nothing, but went 
 away. I went after him into his room : but found 
 he was fall afleep in bed. A day or two after he 
 fell ill, and within the week died in raging defpair. 
 
 5 . I was between fourteen and fifteen, when 
 I went very early one morning ,to fetch up the 
 kine. I had two fields to crofs into a low ground 
 which was faid to be haunted. Many perfons had 
 been frighted there : and I had myfelf often feen 
 men and woman, (fo many, at times, that they 
 are out of count) go juft by me and vanifh away. 
 This morning, as I came toward it, I heard a 
 confufed noife, as of many people quarrelling. 
 But I did not mind it, and went on, till I came 
 near the gate. I thenfaw on the other fide a young 
 man dreft in purple, who faid, “ It is too early : 
 Go back from whence you came. The Lord be 
 with you and blefs you. And prefently he was 
 gone. 
 
 6. When I was about fixteen, my uncle fell 
 ill, and grew worfe and worfe for three months. 
 One day having been fent out on an errand, I 
 
 was 
 
 f How Grange is this ? But how little do we know, concerni- 
 ng the laws of the invifi’ole world ? 
 
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 was coming home through a lane, when I faw him 
 in the field coming fwiftly toward me. Iran to 
 meet him ; but he was gone. When I came home 
 I found him calling for me. Asfoon as I came to 
 his bed fide, he clafp’d his arms round my neck ; 
 and burfling into tears earnellly exhorted me, to 
 continue in the ways of God, kept his hold, till 
 he funk down and died ; and even then they 
 could hardly unclafp his fingers. I would fain 
 have died with him and wifhed to be buried with I; 
 him, dead or alive. 
 
 7. From that time I was crying from morning 
 to night, and praying that I might fee him. I 
 grew weaker and weaker, till one morning about ; 
 one o’clock, as I was lying, crying as ufual, I 
 heard fome noife, and rifing up, faw him come 
 to the bed fide. He looked much difpleafed, (hook, j 
 his head at me, and in a minute or two went : 
 away. 
 
 8. About a week after I took my bed and grew 1 
 worfeand worfe, till in fix or feven days my life i 
 was defpaired of. Then about eleven at night, my ■ 
 nncle came in, looked well pleafed, and fat 
 down on thebedfide. He came every night after 
 at the fame time, and (fayed till cock-crowing. 
 
 I was exceedingglad. and kept my eyes fixt upon 
 him, all the time he (fayed. It I wanted drink or 
 anv thing, though 1 did not Ipeak or (fir he 
 fetched it, and fet it on the chair by the bed fide. 
 
 Indeed 
 
 $ So it is plain, he knew her thoughts ? But this is widely dis- 
 tant, from knowing the hearts of all men. 
 
 ' • ' ‘ ' " • ‘ j 
 
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 Indeed I could not fpeak ||; many times I ftrove, 
 but could not move my tongue. Every morning 
 when he went away he waved his hand to me, 
 and I heard delightful mufic, as if many perfons 
 were finging together. 
 
 9. In about fix weeks I grew better, I was then 
 mufiilg one- night, Whether I did well, in defir- 
 ing he might come ? And I was praying, that 
 God would do his own will, when he came in, 
 and flood by the bed fide. But he was not in his 
 nfual drefs : he had on a white robe which reach- 
 ed down to his feet. He looked quite well pleaf- 
 ed. About one, there {food by him a perfon 
 in white, taller than him and exceeding beautiful. 
 He came with the finging as of many voices, and 
 continued till near cock- crowing. Then my un- 
 cle fmiled and waved his hand toward me twice or 
 thrice. They went away with inexpreffibly fweet 
 mufic, and I faw him no more. 
 
 xo. In a year after this, a young man courted 
 me, and in fome months we agreed to be married. 
 But he purpofed to take another voyage firlf, 
 and one evening went a-board his {hip. About 
 eleven o’clock, going out to look for my mother, 
 I faw him handing at his mother’s door with his 
 hands in his pockets, and his hat pulled over his 
 eyes. I went to him, and reached my hand, to 
 put up his hat. But he went fwiftlv by me, and I 
 faw the wall on the other fide of the lane part as 
 
 he 
 
 || Such an impretlion, even though (he felt no fear, did thepr«' 
 ence of a'fuperior natuie make upon her! 
 
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 he went through, and then immediately clofe after 
 him. At ten the next morning he died. 
 
 it. A few days after, John Simpfon, one of 
 our neighbours, a man that truly feared God, and 
 one with whom I was particularly acquainted, 
 went to fea, as ufual. He failed out on a Tuef- 
 day. 1 he Friday night following, between eleven 
 and twleve o’clock, I heard one walking in my 
 room, and every ftep founded, as if he was ftep- 
 ping in water. He then came to the bedfide in his 
 fea-jacket, all wet, and ftretched his hand over 
 me. Three drops of water feii on ray breafti, and 
 felt as cold as ice. I drove to wake his wife, who 
 lay with me ; but I could not, any more than if 
 fhe was dead. Afterward I heard, he was caft 
 away that night. In lefs than a minute he went 
 away. But he came to me every night, for fix or 
 feven nights following, between eleven and two. 
 Before he came and when he went away, I 
 always heard fweet muftci. Afterwards he came 
 both day and night : every night about twelve 
 with the mufic at his coming and going, and 
 every day at fun-rife, noon and fun-fet. He 
 came whatever company I was in ; at church, 
 in the preaching-houfe, at my clafs : and was al- 
 ways juft before me, changing his pofture, as I 
 changed mine. When I fat he fat ; when I 
 kneeled he kneeled ; when 1 flood he flood like- 
 
 wife. 
 
 + Was this real ? Or did he only raife fuch a fenfation in her ? j 
 
 f Was this a real modu ition of the air? Was it defigned te 
 fiiew that he '.vas happy, and to encourage her to fpeak ? 
 
[ ‘Bp ] 
 
 wife. I would fain have fpoke to him, but I could 
 not ; when I tried, my heart funk within me, 
 mean time it affefled me more and more, fo that I 
 loil both my ftomach, my colour, and my flrength. 
 This continued ten weeks, while I pined 
 away not daring to tell any one. At lafl he came 
 four or five nights without any mufic, and look* 
 ed exceeding fad. On the fifth night he drew 
 the curtains of the bed violently to and fro ; flill 
 looking wifhfullyat me, and as one quite diflref- 
 fed. This he did two nights. On the third, I lay 
 down about eleven, on the fide of the bed. 1 
 quickly fawhim walking up and down the room. 
 Being refolved to fpeak to him, but unwilling 
 any fhould hear, I rofe and went up into the gar- 
 ret. When I opened the door, I faw him walk- 
 ing toward me, and fhrunk back : on which he 
 flopped and flood at a diflance. I faid, “ In the 
 nameoftheTather, Son, and Holy Ghoft, what is 
 your bufinefs with me?” He anfwered, “ Betfy, 
 God forgive you, for keeping me fo long from 
 my reft||. Have you forgot what you promifed 
 before I went to fea ? To look to my children, 
 if I was drowned ? You mull fland to your word 
 or I cannot reft.” I faid, ‘ I wilh I was dead,’ he 
 faid, fay not fo. You have more to go through be- 
 fore then. And yet, if you knew as much as I do, 
 you would not care how foon you died. — You 
 may bring the children on in their learning while 
 they live : they have but a fhort time§.” I laid, ‘I 
 
 will 
 
 || Who can account for this ? 
 
 ^ By what means could he know this ? 
 
[ » 9 ° ] 
 
 will take all the care I can.’ He added, “ Your 
 brother has wrote for vou, to come to Jamaica: 
 But if you go it will hurt your foul. You have 
 alfo thoughts of altering your condition t : but if 
 you marry him you think of, it well draw you 
 from God, and you will neither he happy here 
 nor hereafter. Keep clofe to God, and go on in 
 the way wherein you have been bi ought up.” I 
 afked, ‘ How do you fpend your time ?’ He an- 
 fwered, “ In fongs of praife. But of this you will 
 know more by and by : for where I am, you will 
 furely be. I have loft much happinefs by coming 
 to you J: And I fhould not have flayed fo long 
 without ufing other means to make you fpeak “. 
 but the Lord would not fufler me to fright you. 
 Have you any thing more to fay ? It draws near 
 two, and alter that I cannot flay. I (hall only 
 come to you twice more before the death of my 
 two children. God blefs you.” Immediately I 
 heard fuch Tinging, as if a thoufand voices joined 
 together. He then went down flairs and I follow- 
 ed him to the firft landing. He fmiled, and I faid 
 ‘I defire your will come back.’ He flood ftill till 
 I came to him, I afked him one or two queflions, 
 which he immediately anfwered ; but added, “ I 
 wifhyou had not called me back ; for now I muft 
 take fomething lrom you^.” He paufed a little 
 and (aid, “ 1 think you can beft part with the hear- 
 
 “ ing 
 
 + So he likewife knew her thoughts ? 
 
 f I do not underftand this. 
 
 S Another inltance tike this we that! fee by and by. But the 
 rcafonofit we cannot fo much as conjecture. 
 
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 s< ing of your left ear.” He laid his hand upon 
 it, and in the inftant it was deaf as a ftone. And 
 it was feveral years before I recovered the lead 
 hearing of it. The cock crowed as he went out 
 of the door : and then the mufic ceafed. The 
 elder of his children died at about three years 
 and an half, the younger, before he was five years 
 old. He appeared before the death of each, 
 but without fpeaking ; after that, I faw him no 
 more. 
 
 12. A little before Michaelmas, 1763, my bro- 
 ther George, who was a good young man, went 
 to fea. The day after Michaelmas-day, about mid- 
 night, I law him Handing by my bedfide, fur- 
 rounded with a glorious light, and looking ear- 
 nellly at me. He was wet all over. That night 
 the fhip in which he failed, fplitupon a rock, and 
 all the crew were drowned. 
 
 13. On April 9. 1767, about midnight, I was 
 laying awake, and I law my brother Johnt Hand- 
 ing by my bed-fide. Juft at that time he died in 
 Jamaica. 
 
 14. By his death I became intitled to an houfe 
 in Sunderland, which was left us by my grand- 
 father, John Hobfon, an exceeding wicked man, 
 who was drowned fourteen years ago. I employed 
 an attorney to recover it from my aunts, who 
 kept poffeffion of it. But finding more difficulty 
 than I expected, in the beginning of December I 
 
 gave 
 
 + So, a fpirit finds no difficulty in travelling three or four thou- 
 fand miles in a moment ? 
 
t *9 2 ] 
 
 gave it up. Three or four nights after, as I rofe 
 from prayer, a little before eleven, I faw him 
 flanding at a fmall diftance. I cried out, ‘ Lord 
 blefs me ! What brings you here ?’ He anfwer- 
 ed “ You have given up the houfe : Mr. Parker 
 advifed you fo to dot : but if you do I fhall have 
 no rell^i, Indeed Mr. Dunn whom you have 
 hitherto employed, will do nothing for you. Go 
 to Durham : employ an attorney there, and it 
 will be recovered||,” His voice was loud*, and fo 
 hollow and deep, that every word went thro’ me. 
 His lips did not move at all, (nor his eyes) but 
 the found feemed to rife out of the floor. When 
 he had done fpeaking, he turned about, and walk- 
 ed out of the roomi. 
 
 15. Injanuary, as I was fitting on the bed- fide* 
 a quarter before twelve he came in, flood before 
 me, looked earneflly at me, then walked up and 
 down and hood and looked again. This he did 
 for half an hour : and thus he came every other 
 nip-lit + for about three weeks. All this time he 
 feemed angry §, and fometimes his look was quite 
 
 „ horrid 
 
 ■r How often are fpirits prelimt when we do not think of it ? 
 
 + Why not ? What had he to do. with die citings under thi 
 fun ? 
 
 ^ Did he then know Mr. Dunn’s thoughts? 
 
 |j Was he fure of this ? Or did lie only conjeflure ? 
 
 * What a pi£lure ? Tar beyond her invention ! 
 
 + That he might not fright her, by vamthing away. 
 
 J Surely God faw, this w as as much at (he could bear. 
 
 $ At her not fpeaking. But why could not he (peak firfl ? Ts, 
 this contrary to a law of the iuvifiblc world 
 
[. *93 3 
 
 horrid and furious. One night I was fitting up 
 in bed crying, when he came and began to pull 
 off the cloaths. I ftrove to touch his hand, but 
 could not ; on which he fhrunk back and fmiled.f 
 
 1 6. The next night but one, about twelve, I 
 was again fitting up and crying, when he came 
 and flood at the bedfide. As I was looking for an 
 handkerchief he walked to the table, took one 
 up 4 brought and dropt it upon the bed. After 
 this, he came three or four nights and pulled the 
 cloaths off, throwing them ori the other fide of 
 the bed. 
 
 17. Two nights after he came as I was fitting 
 on the bedfide, and after walking to and fro, 
 fnatched the handkerchief from my neck. I fell 
 into a fwoon. When I came to nryfelf he was 
 Handing juft before me. Prefently he came cloffe 
 to me, dropt it on the bed, and went away. 
 
 18. Having had a long illnefs the year before, 
 having taken much cold by his frequent pulling 
 
 1 off the cloaths, and being worn out by thefe 
 appearances, 1 was now moftiy confined to my 
 bed. The next night, foon after eleven, be came 
 again. I afked * In God’s name, why do you tor- 
 ment me thus? You knotv, it is impoffible for me 
 to go to Durham now. But I have a fear that you 
 ate not happy, and beg to know, whether you 
 are, or not ?’ He anfwered, after a little paufe, 
 
 Vol. XXXII. 
 
 That 
 
 + Poor Ghoft! Bid this divertthee for a moment from mending 
 1.3 the worm that never dieth ? 
 
 $ Soj he faw her thought ! But did he not pity her too ? 
 
[ m ] 
 
 “ That is a bold queftion for you to a afk. So far 
 as you knew me to do amifs in my life time, do 
 you take care to do better.” I faid, ‘ It is a fhocking 
 affair, to live and die after that manner.’ He re- 
 plied, “ It is no time for refle£lions now: what is 
 done cannotbe undone.” 1 faid, * It mull be a great 
 happinefs, to die in the Lord ?’ He faid, “ Hold 
 your tongue^ ! Hold your tongue ! At your 
 peril never mention fuch a word before me 
 again !” I was frighted, and flrove to lift up my 
 heart to God. He gave a fhriek, and funk down 
 at three times, with a loud groan at each time. 
 Juft as he difappeared, there was a large flafh of 
 fire and I fainted away. 
 
 19 . Three days after, I went to Durham, and 
 put the affair into Mr. Hugill the attorney’s hands. 
 The next night, about one, he came in ; but on 
 my taking up the bible, went away. A month 
 after, he came about eleven. 1 faid, “ Lord 
 blefs me ! What has brought you here again ?” 
 He faid, “ Mr. HugillJ) has done nothing but writ 
 one letter : you mult write or go to Durham 
 again. It may be decided in a few days.” I afked 
 why do not you go to my aunts, who keep me 
 out of it ? He anfwered, “ I have no power to 
 go to them. And they cannot bear it. If I could, 
 
 ^ This feems to have been peculiarly intolerable to him, the 
 thought of wha he had loft. 
 
 1| So he had obferved hiru narrowly, though unfeen. 
 
[ *95 ] 
 
 I would go to them, were it only to warn themd : 
 for I doubt, where I am, I lhall get too many to 
 bear me company,” He added, “ Take caiei : 
 There is mifchief laid in Peggy’s || hands : (he 
 will drive to meet you coming from your clafs. 
 I do not fpeak to hinder you from going to it, 
 but that you may be cautious. Letfomeonego 
 with you and come back with you ; tho’ whether 
 you will efcape or no, I cannot tell.” I faid, ‘She 
 can do no more than God will let her.’ He an- 
 fwered. “ We have all too little to do with him. 
 Mention that word no more. As foon as this is 
 decided meet me at Boyldon-hill §, between 
 twelve and one at night.” I faid, ‘ That is a lone 
 place for a woman to go to at that time of night. 
 Iam willing to meet you at the Ballad-hills, or 
 in the church-yard.’ He faid, “ That will not 
 do. But what are you afraid of ?” I anfwered* 
 
 ‘ I am not afraid of youb, but of rude men.’ He 
 faid, “ I will fet you fafe, both thither and back 
 again.” I afked, “ May I not bring a minider 
 with me ?” He replied, “ Are you thereabouts ? 
 I will not be feen by any but you. You have 
 plagued me fore enough already. If you bring any 
 with you, take what follows.” 
 
 1 2 20. Prom 
 
 f Is not tills like the concern of Dives for his five brethren ? 
 Luke xvi. 28. 
 
 } Here at lead, he (hews fome remains of real affeflion! 
 
 [| Her aunt. 
 
 § About half a mile from the town, 
 t No 1 Not though fhc knew him to.be a damned fpiriti 
 
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 so. From this time he appeared every night, be- 
 tween eleven and two. If I put out the fire and can- 
 dle, in hopes I fhould not fee him, it did not avail. 
 For as foon as he came, all the room was light, but 
 with a difmal light, like that of flaming brimffone. 
 But when ever I took up the bible, or kneeled 
 down, yea, or prayed in my heart, he was gone. 
 
 21. On Thurfday, Mav 12, he came about 
 eleven, as 1 was fitting by the fire. I afked, ' In 
 God’s name, what do you want ?’ He faid, “ You 
 mull either go or write to Durham. I cannot 
 ftay from you ’till this is decided;*; : And I 
 cannot flay where I am. ||” When he went away, 
 
 I fell into a violent paffion of crying, feeing no 
 end of my trouble. I11 this agony I continued till 
 after one and then fell into a fit. About two I 
 came to tnyfelf, and faw (landing at the bed-fide, 
 one in a white robe, which reached down to his 
 feet. I cried ‘ In the name of the Father, Son and 
 Holy Ghofl — ’ He faid, “ The Lord is with you, 
 I am come to comfort you. What caufehave you 
 to complain and murmur thus ? Why do you 
 mourn thus for your friends P Prav for them, and 
 leave them to God. Arife and pray.” I faid, ‘ I can 
 pr y none.’ He faid, “ But God will help you : 
 only keep clofe to God ; yon are backward like- 
 wife in praying with others, and afraid to re- 
 ceive the Lord’s Supper. Break through that back- 
 
 wardnef* 
 
 ^ Why ot ? Who can tell ? 
 
 |j And where canft thou ftay with any comfort? Doll not thou 
 carry with thee thy own hell ? 
 
C *97 j 
 
 wardnefs and that fear. The Lord blefs you and 
 be ever with you !” As he went away, I heard 
 many voices fmgkig Hallelujah, with fuch me- 
 lody as I never heard before. All my trouble was 
 gone, and I wanted nothing but to fly away with 
 them. 
 
 22. Sat. 28. About twelve, my grandfather 
 Hood at the bedfide. I faid, “ In God’s name, 
 what do you want ?’ He faid, “ You do not make 
 aneudofthis thing: get it decided as foon as 
 pofiible. My coming is as uneafy to myfelf, as it 
 can be to you.” Before he tame there was a 
 ftrong fmell of bu'rning, and the room was full of 
 fmoke, which got into my eyes, and almoft blind- 
 ed me for forne time after. 
 
 23. Wednefday, June 21. About funfet, I 
 was coming up-ftairs at Mrs. Knot’s, and I faw 
 him coming toward me out of the oppofite room. 
 He went clofe by me on the flair-head. Before 
 I faw him I fmelt a flrong fmel! of burning : and 
 fo did Mifs Hofmer. It got into my throat and al- 
 moft ftifled me. I fat down, and fainted away. 
 
 24. On Friday, July 3. I was fitting atdinner, 
 when I thought I heard one come along the paf- 
 fage, I looked about, and faw my aunt, Margaret 
 Scot of Newcaftle, Handing at my back. On Satur- 
 day I had a letter informing me, that fhe died on 
 that day.” Thus far Elizabeth Hobfon. 
 
 On Sunday, July xo. I received the following 
 I 3 letter 
 
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 letter from a friend to whom I had recommended 
 her. 
 
 “ Sunderland, 6 July 1768. 
 
 “ I wrote you word before, that Elizabeth Hob- 
 fon, was put into poffefhon of the houfe. The 
 fame night her old vifitant, who had not troubled 
 her for fome time came again and faid. “ You 
 muff meet me at Boyldon-hill, on Thurfday 
 night, a little before twelve. You will fee many 
 appearances +, who will call you to come to 
 them : But do not ftir, neither give them any 
 anfwer. A quarter after twelve, I (hall come and 
 call you : but (fill do not anfwer nor ftir. She faid 
 ‘ It is an hardfhip upon me for you to defire me 
 to meet you there. Why cannot you take your 
 leave now P He anfwered, “ It is for your good 
 that I defire it. I can take my leave of you now. 
 But if I do, I muft take fomething from you, 
 which you would notlike to part with.” She faid, 
 * May not a few friends come with me ?’ He faid, 
 “ They may ; but they mufl not be prefent 
 when I come.” 
 
 That night, twelve of us met at Mr. Davifon’sJ 
 and fpent fome time in prayer. God was with us 
 of a truth. Then fix of us went with her to the 
 place, leaving the reft to pray for us. We came 
 thither a little before twelve, and then flood at a 
 fmall diflance from her. It being a fine night, 
 we kept her in our fight, and fpent the time in 
 
 prayer. 
 
 + How ftrange is this ? Who can account for it ? 
 
 £ About a quarter of a mile from the hill. 
 
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 prayer. She flood there ’till a few minutes after 
 one. When wq faw her move, we went to meet 
 her. She faid, ‘ Thank God, it is all over and done. 
 I found every thing as he told me. I faw many 
 •appearances, who called me to them ; but I did 
 not anfwer or ftir. Then he came and called me 
 atadiftance; but I took no notice. Soon after 
 he came up to me and faid, “ You are come well 
 fortified.’’ He then gave her the reafons, why he 
 required her to meet him at that place : and why 
 he could take his leave there, and not in the 
 houfe, without taking fomething from her. But 
 withal he charged her to tell this to no one ; 
 adding, “ If you difclofe this to any creature, I 
 fhall be under a neceflity, of troublingyou as long 
 as you live. If you do not, I lhali never trouble 
 you, nor fee you any more, either in time or eter- 
 nity.” He then bid her farewell, waved his hand, 
 and difappeared. 
 
 Tuefday 31. I made a little excurfion into 
 Wardale, and found a people ready prepared for 
 the Lord. I had defigned to preach abroad, but had 
 fcarce done finging, when a ftorm of rain drove 
 us into the houfe. We had a blelfed opportunity 
 there ; particularly for healing the backfliders. 
 
 Wednefday, June 1. I preached in Teefdale. 
 The fun was fcorching hot when I began, but 
 was foon covered with clouds. Many of the mili- 
 tia were prefent at Barnard caftle, in the even- 
 ing, and behaved with decency. I was well pleaf- 
 
 I 4 ed 
 
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 ed to lodge at a gentleman’s, an old fchooj-feilow 
 Haifa mile from the town. What a dream are the 
 nfty or fixty years that have flipt away, dnce we 
 were at the charter-houfe ! 
 
 Thunday 2. I preached at noon at a farmer’s 
 houfe, near Brough in Weftmoreland. The fun 
 was hot enough ; but fome fhady trees covered 
 both me and moil of the congregation. A little 
 bird perched on one of them, and Tung without 
 intermiftion, from the beginning of the fervice 
 unto the end. Many of the people came from 
 far : but I believe none of them regretted their 
 labour. 
 
 The evening congregation in Sivaledale was far 
 larger, and equally attentive. And the fociety 
 was one of the meft lively, which I have met 
 with in England. Many of them do rejoice in the 
 pure love of God, and many more are earneftly 
 feeking it. 
 
 Friday g. I rode to Richmond, intending to 
 preach near the houfe of one of our friends. But 
 fome of the chief of the town fent to defre me to 
 preach in the market-place. The Yorkfliire militia 
 were all there, juft returned from their exercife. 
 And a more rude rabble-rout I never faw ; with- 
 out fenfe, decency, or good manners. 
 
 In running down one of the mountains yefter- 
 day I had got a fprain in my thigh : it was rather 
 worfe to-day; but as I rode to Barnard-Caftle, 
 the fun fhone fo hot upon it, that before I came 
 to the town, it was quite well. In the evening the 
 
 commanding- 
 
[ 201 ] 
 
 commanding-officer gave orders there ffiould be 
 no exercife, that all the Durham-militia, (What a 
 contrail!) might be atliberty to attend the preach* 
 ing. Accordingly we had a little army of officers 
 as well as foldiers : and all behaved well. A 
 large number of them were prefent at five in the 
 
 morning. 1 have not found fo deep and lively 
 
 a work, in any other part of the kingdom, as runs 
 thro’ the whole circuit : particularly in the vales 
 that wind between thefe horrid mountains. I re- 
 turned to Newcaftle in the evening. 
 
 Sund. 5. I preached in the morning at Placey 
 to fome of the moll lively colliers in England : 
 and about two at Hartley, to a flill larger congre- 
 gation ; but to the largeft of all, in the Caftle- 
 garth, at Newcaftle. 
 
 Tuefday 7. I went down by water to South- 
 Shields, and preached at noon to far more than 
 could hear. We went after dinner to Tinmouth 
 Caftle, a magnificent heap of ruins. Within the 
 walls are the remains of a very large church, 
 which feems to have been of exquifite workman- 
 fhip. And the ftones are joined by fo ftrong a 
 cement, as but for Cromwell’s cannon they might 
 have flood a thoufand years. 
 
 Monday 13. I left Newcaftle, and in the re- 
 fidue of the month, vifited moll of the focieties 
 in Yorklhire. Thurfday, July 14, I crofted over 
 into Lincolnfhire, and after fpending about ten 
 days there, returned by Doncafter, Rotherham 
 1 5 and 
 
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 and Sheffield, and thence croffed over to Madely. 
 On Tuefday, 19. I wrote the following letter : 
 
 Rev. and Dear Sir, Swinfleet, 
 
 July 19, ly 68. 
 
 One of Wintringham informed me yefterday 
 that you faid, “ No fenfible and well meaning 
 man could hear, and much lefsjoin the Metho- 
 dills, becaufe they all aBed under a lie , profeffing 
 themfelves members of the church of England, 
 while they licenfed themfelves as diirenters.” 
 You are a little mifinformed. The greater part of 
 the Methodift preachers, are not licenfed at all. 
 And feveral that are, are not licenfed as Diffen- 
 ters : I inllance particularly in Thomas Adams and 
 Thomas Brifco. When Thomas Adams defired 
 a licence, one of the juflices faid, “ Mr. Adams 
 are not you of the church of England ? Why 
 then do you defire a licence ?” He anfwered, 
 “ Sir, I am of th e church of England : yet I de- 
 fire a licence, that I may legally defend myfelf 
 from the illegal violence of oppreffive men.” T. 
 Brifco being afkedthe fame queflion in London, 
 and the juflice adding, “ We will not grant you 
 a licence,” his lawyer replied, “ Gentlemen, you 
 cannot refuie it. The aft is a mandatory aft. You 
 have no choice.” One alked the chairman, Is 
 this true ? He fhook his head, and faid, “ He is 
 in the right.” The objeftion therefore does not 
 lie at all againftthe greater part of the methodift 
 
 preachers 
 
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 preachers ; becaufe they are either licenfed in 
 this form, or not licenfed at all. 
 
 When others applied for a licence, the Clerk 
 or Jullice faid, “ I will not licenfe you, but as 
 Protedant dilfenters.” They replied, “ We are 
 of the church. We are not dilfenters. But if 
 you will call us fo we cannot help it.” They did 
 call them fo in their certificates. But this did not 
 make them fo. They ftill call themjelves members 
 of the church of England: and they believe 
 themfelvej* fo to be. Therefore neither do thefe 
 a£l under a lie. They fpeak no more than they 
 verilybelieve. Surely then unlefs there are ftrong- 
 er objeflions than this, both well-meaning and 
 fenfible men, may in perfeft confidence with 
 their fenfe and fincerity, not only hear, but join 
 the Methodills. 
 
 We are in truth fo far from being ene- 
 mies to the church, that we are rather bi- 
 gots to it. I dare not, like Mr. Venn, leave- 
 the parilh church where I am to go to an 
 independent meeting. I dare not advife others,, 
 to go thither, rather than to church. I ad- 
 vife all, over whom I have any influence,, fiea- 
 dily to keep to the church. Meantime, I advife- 
 them, to fee that the kingdom of God is within, 
 them : that their hearts be full of love to God; 
 and man : and to look upon all, of whatever opi- 
 nion, who are like minded, as their brothe> > /ind 
 JiJlcr y and mother - — O Sir, what art of men or 
 1 6 devii% 
 
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 devils is this, which makes you fo ftudioufly {land 
 aloof from thofe who are thus minded? I cannot 
 but fay to you, as I did to Mr. Walker, (and I 
 fay it the more freely, becaufe Quid mea refert ? 
 
 1 am neither better nor worfe whether you hear 
 ^or forbear] “ The methodifts do not want you : 
 but you want them.” You want the life, the 
 fpirit, the power which they have : not of them- 
 felves : but by the free grace of God. Elfe how 
 could it be, (Let me fpeak without referve) that 
 fo good a man and fo good a preacher, fhould 
 have fo little fruit of his labour, his unwearied 
 labour, for fo many years ? Have your pariflr- 
 ioners the life of religion in their fouls ? Have 
 they fo much as the form of it ? Are the peo- 
 ple of Wintrir.gham in general any better than 
 thofe of Winterton, or Horton ? Alas ! Sir, what 
 is it that hinders your reaping the fruit of fo much 
 pains and fo many prayers ? 
 
 Is it not poflible this may be the very thing, 
 vour Letting yourfelf again!! thofe whom God 
 owns, by the continual convifdion and conver- 
 !ion of Tinners ? 
 
 I fear, as long as you in any wife oppofe thefe, 
 your rod will not blofTom, neither will you fee 
 the def re of your foul, in the profperity of the 
 fouls committed to your charge. 
 
 I pray God to give you a right judgment in all 
 things, and am, Dear Sir, 
 
 Your affe&ionate Brother, 
 
 John Wesley. 
 
 Sunday 
 
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 Sunday, 31. I preached for Mr. Fletcher in 
 the morning, and in the evening at Shrewfbury. 
 
 Monday, Auguft 1. I lodged at the Abbey in 
 Cardiganfhire : and on W ednefday morning 
 reached Haverfordweft. Here abundance of peo- 
 ple flocked together and willingly fujfered the 
 word of exhortation. Indeed a more quiet, hu- 
 mane, courteous people I have fcarce ever feen. 
 But I fear, they were forfeited with preaching 
 before we fet foot in the town. 
 
 Saturday 6. I went to Pembroke. We were 
 here feveral times before we had any place in 
 Haverford-Wett. But we have reafon to fear left 
 the firft become laft. Sunday 7,1 took a good 
 deal of pains to compofe the little mifunderftand- 
 ings which have much obftrufted the work of 
 God. At ten, I read'prayers, preached and ad- 
 miniftered the facrament to a ferious congregation 
 at St. Daniel’s : and the next morning left the 
 people full of good defires, and in tolerable good 
 humour with each other. 
 
 Monday, 8.1 rode to Lanelly, and preached 
 to a fmall earneft company, onYc urcjaved through 
 faitk : Thence we found a kind of a way to 
 Oxwych, where I prefled the one thing needful, 
 on a plain Ample people, right willing to hear 
 with great enlargement of heart. 
 
 Tuefday, Auguft 9. I took a full view of the 
 caftle, Atuate on the top ofafteep hill, and com- 
 manding a various and extenftveprofpefr, both 
 by fea and land. The building itfelfis far the Jofti- 
 
 eft 
 
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 eft which I have feen in Wales. What a tafte 
 had they, who removed from hence, ro bury 
 themfelves in the hole at Margum ! 
 
 When we came to Neath, I was a little fur- 
 prized, to hear I was to preach in the church : 
 of which the church-wardens had the difpofal, 
 the minifter being juft dead. I began reading 
 prayers at fix, but was greatly difgufted at the 
 manner of finging, 1. twelve or fourteen perfons 
 kept it to themfelves, and quite fhut out the con- 
 gregation : 2. Thefe repeated the fame words, 
 contrary to all fenfe and reafon, fix eight or ten 
 times over : 3. According to the {hocking cuftom 
 of modern mufic, different perfons fung different 
 words at one and the fame moment : an intoler- 
 able infult on common fenfe, and utterly incom- 
 partible with any devotion. 
 
 Wednefday 10. At five I had the pleafure of 
 bearing the whole congregation at the roo raffing 
 with the fpirit and with the underjlanding a'fo : 
 And again, at one in the afternoon at Cowbridge, 
 where I found uncommon liberty of fpeech, 
 while I was explaining to many of the rich 
 and gay, as well as to the poor The kingdom of 
 God is within you. 
 
 I did not reach Cardiff till after feven : where 
 finding the congregation waiting, I began immedi- 
 ately in the town-ball, ftrongly exhorting them* 
 Not to receive the grace of God in vain. 
 
 Friday 12. I preached at that lovely place, 
 Llanbraddock : Saturday, 13. about noon at 
 
 Chepftow. Thence I haftened to the paffage. 
 
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 though every one told me, I had time enough 
 and to fpare. I had fo : for I waited fix hours, 
 the boat being juft gone when we came. About 
 nine we got over, and reached Briftol between 
 eleven and twelve. 
 
 Sunday 14. Hearing my wife was dangeroufly 
 ill, I took chaife immediately, and reached the 
 Foundery before one in the morning. Finding 
 the fever was turned, and the danger over, about 
 two I fet out again, and in the afternoon came 
 (not at all tired) to Briftol. 
 
 Our conerfence began on Tuefday the 16th, 
 and ended on Friday the 19th. O what can we 
 do for more labourers? We can only cry to the 
 Lord of the harvejl. 
 
 Sunday 21. Thoufands of hearers, rich and 
 poor, received the word near the new fquare, 
 with the deepeft attention. This is the way to 
 {hake the trembling gates of hell. Still I fee, 
 nothing can do this fo effeciually as field-preach- 
 ing. 
 
 Monday 22. I rode through impetuous rain to 
 Wefton, a village near Bridgwater. A while ago 
 the people here were lions : but now they are be- 
 come lambs. Tuefday 23, I faw a ferious con- 
 gregation at Taunton ! And fhall we have fruit 
 here alfo ? In the evening I preached to the 
 poor backfliders at Collumpton, on Will the Lord 
 be no more intreated ? 
 
 Wednefday 24. I rode to Launcefton, where 
 
 both 
 
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 both the ferioufnefs and largenefs of the congre- 
 gation, evening and morning, gave us reafon to 
 hope, that all our labour here will not be in 
 vain. 
 
 Friday 26 . 1 came to Camelford, where the fo- 
 ciety is once more fhrunk from feventy to four- 
 teen. I preached in the market-place, on 0 that 
 thou hadjl known, at leajl in this lay day, the things 
 that make for thy peace ! Many were moved for 
 the prefent : as they were the next day, while 
 I was applying thofe awful words, The harveft 
 is paf, the fummer is ended, and we are not 
 faved ! 
 
 Saturday 27. I w r ent on to Port-lfaac, now the 
 livelieft place in the circuit. I preached from a 
 balcony in the middle of the town ; a circum- 
 flancel could not but obferve. Before I came to 
 Port-lfaac the firfttime, oneRichard Scantleburv, 
 invited me to lodge at his houfe : but when I 
 came, feeing a large mob at my heels, he fairly 
 fhut the door upon me. Yet in the very houfe I 
 now lodged : Richard Scantlebury, being gone to 
 his father’s, and the prefent proprietor, Richard 
 Wood, counting it all joy to receive the fervants 
 of God. About this time I wrote to a friend 
 as follows : 
 
 Dear Lawrence, 
 
 By a various tram of providences you have 
 been led to the very' place where God intended 
 
 you 
 
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 you fhould be. And you have reafon to praife 
 him, that he has not buffered your labour there 
 to be in vain. In a fhort time, hew little will it 
 fignify, whether we had lived in the Jammer 
 f lands , or beneath 
 
 “ The rage of Ardos and eternal frofr 
 
 How boon will this dream of life be at an end ! 
 And when we are once landed in eternity, it 
 will be all one, whether we fpent our time on 
 earth in a palace, or had not where to lay our 
 head. 
 
 You never learned either from my converfa- 
 tion, or preaching, or writings, that “ Holinefs 
 confifted in a flow of joy.” I conftantly told 
 you quite the contrary : I told you, it was love: 
 the love of God and our neighbour : the image 
 of God damped on the heart: the life of God in 
 the foul of man : the mind that was in Chrift, 
 enabling us to walk as Chrift alfo walked. If 
 Mr. Maxfield, or you took it to be any thing 
 elfe, it was your own fault not mine. And 
 whenever you waked out of that dream, you 
 ought not to have laid the blame of it upon me. 
 It is true that joy is one part of the fruit of the 
 Spirit, of the kingdom of God within us. But 
 this is firft righteoufnefs, then peace and joy in the 
 Holy Ghojl. It is true farther, that if you love 
 God with all your hearty you may rejoice ever- 
 
 more. 
 
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 more. Nay, it is true ftill farther, that many feri- 
 ous, humble, fober-minded believers, who do 
 feel the love of God fometimes, and do then re- 
 joice in God their Saviour, cannot be content 
 with this, but pray continually, that he would 
 enable them to love and rejoice in the Lord al- 
 ways. And no faff under heaven is more unde- 
 niable, than that God does anfwer this prayer ; 
 that he does for the fake of his Son, and through 
 the power of his Spirit, enable another and ano- 
 ther fo to do. It is alfo a plain faff, that this 
 power does commonly over-fhadow them in an 
 injlant : and that from that time they enjoy that 
 inward and outward holinefs, to which they 
 were utter Grangers before. Pcffibly you might 
 be miftaken in this : perhaps you thought you 
 had received what you had not. But pray do not 
 meafure all men by yourfelf: do not imagine, 
 you are the univeifal flandard. If you deceived 
 yourfelf, (which yet I do not affirm) you ffiould 
 not infer, that all others do. Many think they 
 are juftified, and are not : but we can’t infer, that 
 none are juftified. So neither, if many think 
 they are pefeEled in love and are not, will it fol- 
 low, that none are fo? Bleffed be God, though 
 we fet an hundred enthuftafts afide, we are ftill 
 encompajfed with a cloud of witnejfes, who have 
 teftified and do teftify in life and in death, that 
 perfeElion , which I have taught thefe forty years! 
 Thisperfeffion cannotbeadelufion.unlefs thebi- 
 ble be a delufion too : I mean, “ LovingGod with 
 
 all 
 
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 all our heart, and our neighbour as ourfelves.” I 
 pin down all its oppofers to this definition of it. 
 No evafion ! No fluffing the queftion f Where 
 is the delufion of this ? Either you received this 
 love or you did not : if you did, dare you call it a 
 delufion ? You will not call it fo, for all the 
 world. If you received any thing elfe, it does 
 not at all affe£t the queftion. Be it as much a de- 
 lufion as you pleafe, it is nothing to them who 
 have received quite another thing, namely, That 
 deep communion with the Father and the Son, 
 whereby they are enabled to give him their 
 whole heart; to love every man as their own 
 foul, and to walk as Chrift alfo walked. 
 
 O Lawrence, if After Coughlan and you, ever 
 did enjoy this, humble yourfelves before God, 
 for calling it away : if you did not, God grant 
 you may ! 
 
 Monday 29. I rode to St. Columb, intending 
 to preach there, but finding no place that was 
 tolerably convenient, I was going to take horfe, 
 when one offered me the ufe of his meadow, 
 clofe to the town. A large congregation quickly 
 affembled, to whom I explained the nature and 
 pleafantnefs of religion. I have feldom feen a peo- 
 ple behave fo well the firft time I have preached 
 to them. 
 
 Tuefday 30. Calling at St. Agnes, I found a 
 large congregation waiting, fo I preached with- 
 
 out 
 
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 out delay. At Redruth likewlfe I found the peo- 
 ple gathered from all parts : and God gave a 
 loud call to the backfliders. Indeed there was 
 need: for T. Rankin left between three and four 
 hundred members in the fociety, and I found an 
 hundred and ten ! 
 
 In the evening I preached in the meadow at 
 St. Ives, to a very numerous and deeply ferious 
 congregation. Wednefday 31, I met the chil- 
 dren, a u'ork which will exercife the talents of 
 the mofl able preachers in England. 1 hut fday. 
 Sept. 1. The grafs being wet we could not iland 
 in the meadow, but we found an open fpace, 
 where I called a liltning multitude to return to 
 him, who hath no X. forgotten to be gracious. 
 
 Friday 2. I preached at noon to an earned 
 company at Zennor, and in the evening to a far 
 larger at St. Jud. Here being informed that one 
 of our fiders in the next parith,- Morva, who 
 entertained the preachers formerly, was now 
 decriped, and had not heard a fermon for many 
 years, I -went on Saturday g, at noon to Alice 
 Daniel’s, and preached near the houfe, on, They 
 who Jhall be accounted worthy to obtain that u orld t 
 and the refurrrBion from the dead — are equal unto 
 the angels , and are the children cf God , being the 
 children of the refurreBion. I have always thought 
 there is fornething venerable in perfons w'orn 
 out with age : efpecially when they retain 
 their underftanding, and walk in the ways of 
 God. 
 
 Sunday' 
 
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 Sunday 4. I when to St. Creet church, where 
 I heard an excellent fermon. Between one and 
 two I confirmed it, by explaining that haopy re- 
 ligion, which our Lord defcribes in the eight 
 beatitudes. About five in the evening I preached 
 at Newlin ; about nine the next morning at Pen- 
 zance. Surely God will have a people even in 
 this place, where we have fo long feemed only 
 to beat the air. At noon I preached in St. Hila- 
 ry’s, and at St. John’s, this and the next evening, 
 
 I believe the moll fenfelefs then felt the word of 
 God, fharp as a two-edged fword. 
 
 Wed. 7. After the early preaching the felefl 
 fociety met ; fuch a company of lively believers, 
 lull of faith and love, as I never found in this 
 county before. This and the three following 
 days, I preached at as many places as I could, 
 though I was at firfi: in doubt, whether I could 
 preach eight days together, mofily in the open 
 air, three or four times a day. But my ftrength 
 was as my work ; I hardly felt any wearinefs, 
 firft or laft. 
 
 Sunday 11. About nine I preached at St. Ag- 
 nes, and again between one and two. At five I 
 took my old Hand at Gwenap, in the natural 
 amphitheatre. I fuppofe no human voice could 
 have commanded fuch an audience on plain 
 ground. But the ground rifing all round gave me 
 fuch an advantage, that I believe all could hear 
 diflinftly. 
 
 Monday 12. I preached about noon at Calle- 
 
 ftick. 
 
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 flick, and in the evening at Kerley. It rained 
 all the time ; but that did not divert the atten- 
 tion of a large congregation. At noon, Tuefday 
 13, I preached in Truro, and in the evening, at 
 Mevagizzy. It was a feafon of folemn joy ; I 
 have not often lound the like. Surely God’s 
 thoughts are not as our thoughts ! Can any good 
 be done at Mevagizzy ? 
 
 Wednefday 14. After preaching at St. Awftle 
 and Medros, I rode over to St. Roach, and lpent 
 a comfortable evening with my old acquaintance 
 Mr. Furlv. 
 
 Thurfday 15. We had our quarterly meeting 
 at Medros. But it was not now as thelafl time I 
 was here, when the whole fociety was in a flame : 
 The love of many is now waxed cold. Friday 16. 
 1 rode through heavy rain to Paulpenow. Here 
 the room over which we were to lodge, being 
 filled with pilchards and conger-eels, the per- 
 fume was too potent for me : fo that I was not 
 forry, when one of our friends invited me to 
 lodge at her houfe. Soon after I began to preach 
 heavy rain began : yet none went away till the 
 whole fervice was ended. 
 
 Saturday 17. When we came to Crimble- 
 paffage, w r e were at a full flop. The boatmen 
 told us, the ftorm was fo high, that it was not 
 poffible to pafs. However at length we perfuaded 
 them to venture out : and we did not fhip one 
 fea, till we got over, 
 
 Sunday 18. Our room at the The Dock con- 
 tained 
 
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 tainedthe morning congregation tolerably well. 
 Between one and two I began preaching on the 
 Key in Plymouth. Notwithflanding the rain, 
 abundance of people flood to hear. But one filly 
 man talked without ceafing, till I defired the 
 people to open to the right and left, and let me 
 look him in the face. They did fo. He pulled 
 off his hat, and quietly went away. 
 
 At five I preached in the fquare at The Dock, 
 to an exceeding large congregation. And the 
 rain, though it prevented fomefrom coming, did 
 not caufe any to go away. Monday 19. in the 
 evening, I preached in what is vulgarly called 
 Mr. Whitefield’s room. Afterwards I met the 
 fociety at our own, and exhorted them to Jiand 
 Jaft in one mind and one judgment. I fet out early 
 in the morning ; and in the evening preached at 
 Tiverton. 
 
 Thurfday 22. I rode to Axminfler. The rain 
 prevented my preaching abroad, though the 
 room would ill contain the congregation. Ob- 
 ferving many there who feemed quite unawa- 
 kened, I opened and ftrongly applied, Ezekiel’s 
 vifion of the dry bones. Lord, breathe upon the/e 
 Jlain, that they may live. 
 
 Friday 23. I rode acrofs the country to Charl- 
 ton, and found the congregation waiting : in the 
 afternoon we went on to Lympfham ; but not 
 without fome difficulty. The waters were out, 
 fo that it was no eafy matter either to ride or 
 
 walk. 
 
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 walk. My horfe got into a ditch over his back in 
 water. Nor could I get to my lodgings the foot 
 way, till an honeft man took me on his fnoulders, 
 and fo waded through. 
 
 Saturday 24. 1 returned to Briftol. Tuefday 27. 
 
 I preached in Pensford at eight, in Shepton* 
 Mallet at one, and at Wincaunton in the even- 
 ing, with far greater freedom than I ufed to find 
 among that dead people. About one, Wednef- 
 day 28, I preached at Stallbridge, to a large and 
 ferioufly attentive congregation. Hence I went 
 on to cold, uncomfortable Shaftfburv, and fpoke 
 exceeding ftrong words. All fetioufly attended: 
 fome feemed to underhand, and a few feel what 
 was fpoken. 
 
 Thurfday 29. I rode to Frome. The people 
 here fe-m more alive, than mod I have feen in 
 the circuit. And this is the more flrange, becaufe 
 in this town only, there is fuch a mixture of men 
 of all opinions, Anabaptifts, Quakers, Prefbyteri- 
 ans, Arians, Antinomians, Moravians, and 
 what not ? If any hold to the truth, in the 
 midfl of all thefe, furelv the power muft be of 
 God. 
 
 Friday 30. We obferved as a day of faffing and 
 prayer. And it was a good day for many, who 
 no fooner called, than God anfwered them in the 
 joy of their heart. 
 
 Sunday, Odlober 2. I preached at Kingfwood, 
 upon Quench not the Jpirit. PofTibly this people 
 may now have ears to hear, and may defpifc pro- 
 
 phejyings 
 
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 phefyings no more. Hereby they have frequently 
 quenched the fpirit, and deftroyed his work in 
 their hearts. 
 
 Wednefday g. I rode over to Maiden Bradley, 
 and preached at a little didance from the town, 
 to as ferious a congregation as I ever faw, many 
 of whom were in tears. It is a wonder, there 
 fhould be room for the gofpel here, among fo 
 many lords and gentlemen ! But indeed they 
 neither meddle nor make. And this is all we de« 
 fire of them. 
 
 Fridav 7. I fpent an hour, much to my fatis- 
 faflion, with the children at Kingfwood. There 
 is reafon to hope, that the grace of God is dill 
 working among them. Some are dill alive to 
 God : and all behave in fuch a manner, that I 
 have feen no other fchool-boys like them. 
 
 Sunday 9. I began examining the fociety in 
 Kingfwood, much increafed both in grace and 
 number, chiefly by means of thofe meetings for 
 prayer, which God dill blelTes greatly. On Mon- 
 day and Tuefday I examined the fociety at Brif- 
 tol, and found caufe to rejoice over thefe alfo: 
 although there is dill an heavinefs of fpirit upon 
 many, indeed on all who are not going on to per- 
 feBion. 
 
 Wednefday 12. In the evening I preached at 
 Kingfwood. I have not feen fuch a congregation 
 there on a week day, for above thefe twenty 
 years. Nor have I feen fuch a congregation at 
 Pill for many years, as was prefent on Thurfday 
 Vol. XXXII. K in 
 
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 in the afternoon. It is poflible, even on this 
 barren foil, we may fee a little fruit of much la- 
 bour. 
 
 Friday 14. I dined with Dr. Wrangel, one of 
 the King of Sweden’s chaplains, who has fperi^ 
 feveral years in Penfylvania. His heart feemed 
 to be greatly united to the American Chriflians: 
 and he ftrongly pleaded for our fending fome of 
 our preachers to help them, multitudes of whom 
 are as fheep without a fbepherd. Tuefday 18. 
 He preached at the new room, to a crowded au- 
 dience, and gave general fatisfa&ion by the fim- 
 plicity and life which accompanied his found 
 do£lrine. 
 
 Saturday 22. I was much furprized in reading 
 an if] ay on mufic, wrote by one who is a thorough 
 mafler of the fubje£l ; to find that the mufic of 
 the antients, was as fimple as that of the Metho- 
 diils : that their mufic wholly confifted of melody , 
 or the arrangement of fingle notes : that what is 
 now called ha rmony, finging in parts, the whole 
 of counterpoint and fugues , is quite novel, being 
 never known in the world, till the popedom of 
 Leo the tenth. He farther obferves, that as the 
 finging different words by different perfons at the 
 very fame time, neceflarilv prevents attention to 
 the fenfe, fo it frequently deflroys melody 
 for the fake of harmony; meantime it deflroys 
 the very end of mufic, which is to affefl the paf- 
 fions. 
 
 Monday 24.IleftBriflol,and went by Bath and 
 
 Bradford, 
 
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 Bradford, to Salifbury. Wednefday 26. At one 
 I preached in Rumfey, to a very quiet, un- 
 affected audience : and in the evening at Win- 
 chefter, to a company of as poor people as I have 
 feen for many years. Thurfday 27. The fcene 
 was changed : at Portfmouth rich and poor 
 flocked together from all parts. Abundance of 
 them came again at five in the morning. In the 
 evening the boufe ill contained them. And 
 never did I fee any receive the woid with 
 greater earneftnefs. The next day I returned to 
 London. 
 
 Monday 31. I took horfe at five, and juft then 
 found that my horfe had fcarce a fhoe on his feet. 
 However I was obliged (not having a minute to 
 fpare (to ride as far as Colney. There I pro- 
 cured one to fhoe my horfe all round, and lame 
 him on both his fore- feet. However he halted on 
 to Hockley ; where an honeft and fkilful fmith, 
 fo altered and removed the fhoes, that he did 
 not halt any more. But by this means we had 
 loft fo much time that the fun fet before we 
 reached Whittlebury-foreft. We had then won- 
 derful road ; fome of the ridings (fo called] being 
 belly deep. However between fix and feven we 
 came fafe to Whittlebury. 
 
 James Glafbrook was fo wearied out, that he 
 could fcarce ftir hand or foot. So I defired 
 him to go to reft. I was wrnary enough myfelf, 
 till I began to fpeak. But wearinefs then va» 
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 nifhed away, and we all praifed God with joyful 
 lips. 
 
 Tuefday, November 1 . 1 preached at Weedon, 
 and at five in the morning : about eleven at 
 Towcefter, and in the evening, to many more 
 than the houfe would hold at Northampton. 
 Friday 4. James Glafbrook, (who had a fit of an 
 ague at Whittlebury) undertook to conduct me 
 to Bedford. But he was taken ill on the road : I 
 preached there at feven, on, Azoake lliou that 
 fleepejl. And never was more need : for a more 
 fleepy audience I have not often feen. 
 
 Saturday 5. About noon I preached at Hert- 
 ford in the new room to a large and ferious con- 
 gregation. The mayor’s ufage of Mr. Colley for 
 preaching in the market-place, with Mr. Colley’s 
 firm and calm behaviour, was the means of con- 
 vincing Mr. Andrews, who built this room at 
 his own expence. 
 
 Monday 7 . 1 fet out for Oxfordfhire: preached 
 at Wycombe in the evening, and on Tuefdav 
 and Wednefday at Witney. On Thurfday in my 
 return, I was defiled to preach at Oxford. The 
 room was throughly filled, and not with curi- 
 ous but deeply ferious hearers. Many of thefe 
 defired, that our travelling preachers would take 
 them in their turn ; with which I willingly com- 
 plied. 
 
 In the evening I preached in the chapel at 
 Henley, toaconfiderablenumber of ferious peo- 
 ple. 
 
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 pie. One o.r two of the bafer fort made fome 
 noife : but I reproved them, and for once, they 
 were afhamed. 
 
 Friday 1 1. I returned to London. The next 
 week I vifited the cialfes, and at intervals read Mr. 
 Bofw ell’s account of Corfica, But what a fcene 
 is opened therein ! How little did we know of 
 that brave people ? How much lefs were we ac- 
 quainted with the ch.arafler of their general Paf- 
 chal Paoli ? As great a lover of his country as 
 Epaminondas, and as great a general as Hannibal 
 
 Saturday 19. I read Dr. Nowell’s anfwer to 
 Mr. Hill, concerning the expullion of the ftix- 
 dentsat Oxford. He has faid all that could be faid, 
 for that firetch of power, that inftance oi/ummum 
 Jus-, and he fays quite enough, to clear the 
 church of England from the charge of predeftina- 
 tion : a doftrine which he proves to be utterly 
 inconfiftent, with the common prayer, the com- 
 munion fervice, the office of baptifm, the arti- 
 cles, the homiles, and the other writings of thofe 
 that compiled them, 
 
 Monday 28. In the evening, I preached in the 
 Barracks at Chatham. I fpoke louder than I have 
 done for years : yet the fkirts of the congregation 
 could not hear. Few of thofe that did hear, heard 
 in vain ; for God was in the midft of them. 
 Tuefday 29. at noon, I preached at Sittenburn, 
 to a deeply-attentive audience: and in the even- 
 ing, at Canterbury, in an houfe half filled: a 
 fight I do not often fee. 
 
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 Wednefday 
 
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 Wednefday go. I rode to Dover, and came 
 in juft before a violent ftorm began. It did not 
 hinder the people : many were obliged to go 
 away, aftfer the houfe was filled. What a defire to 
 hear, runs through all the fea-port towns wher- 
 ever we come ! Surely God is befieging this na- 
 tion, and attacking it at all the entrances ! 
 
 Thurfday, December 1. The ftorm was ready 
 to bear away both man and beaty. But it abated 
 about noon : fo that after preaching at Margate, 
 1 had a pleafant ride to Canterbury. 
 
 I made an odd obfervation here, which I re- 
 commend to all our preachers. The people of 
 Canterbury have been fo often reproved, (and 
 frequently without a caufe,) for being dead and 
 cold, that it has utterly difcouraged them, and 
 made them cold as ftones. How delicate a thi ng is 
 it, to reprove ? To do it well, requires more than 
 human wifdom. 
 
 Frid. 2. Thofe who are called Mr. Whitefield’s 
 fociety, at Chatham, offered me the ufe of their 
 preaching-houfe, which I fuppofe, is nearly four 
 times as large as that at the Barracks, In the morn- 
 ing I walked on, ordering my fervant to over- 
 take me with my carriage. And he did fo ; but 
 not till I had walked feven or eight miles. 
 
 Tuefday lg. Having heard an heavy charge 
 brought again ft W — G — , a member of our fo- 
 ciety, I defired the parties concerned to meet me 
 together. But this afternoon we could not get half 
 through. At the fecond hearing I was convinced, 
 
 l. That 
 
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 j. That he hadfpoken unkindly and unjuftiy : 2 
 That he had done wrong, in leaving Mr. D. atfo 
 fhort a warning. But 1 was equally convinced, 3. 
 That there had been no difhonefty on either 
 fide. 
 
 Wednefday 14. I faw the Weftminfter fcho- 
 lars aft the Adelphi of Terence : an entertainment 
 not unworthy of a Chriftian ! O how do thefe 
 Heathens fhame us ? Their very comedies con- 
 tain both excellent fenfe, the livelieft piftitres of 
 men and manners, and fo fine ftrokes of genuine 
 morality, as are feldom found in the writings of 
 Chriilians. 
 
 Monday 19. I fpent an hour with B — a I — n. 
 If the account {he gives is true, what bleffed crea- 
 tures are both thofe gentlemen and their wives j 
 That would ufe the mod fcurrilous language, yea 
 ftrike and drive out of their houfe, and that in a 
 rainy night, a youi g gentlewomen, a (franger, far 
 from home, for “ joining with the Methodifls !” 
 Do thefe call themfelves Chriftians ? Nay, and 
 Proteftants ? Call then Turks. Papifl is too good 
 name ! 
 
 Tuefday 20. 1 went to Shoreham. Here I resd 
 Mr. Archdeacon Blackbtun’s “ Confiderations 
 on the penal laws againft papifts.” In the appen- 
 dix, p. 198.10 my no fmall furprize, I read thefe 
 words, faid to be wrote by a gentleman at Paris. 
 
 “ The Popifh party boaft much of the increafe 
 of the Methodifls, and talk of that feft with rap- 
 ture, how far the Methodifls and Papifts ftand 
 K 4 connefted 
 
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 «onne£led in principles I know not : but I be- 
 lieve, it is beyond a doubt, that they are in con- 
 ftant correfpondence with each other.” 
 
 It feems, this letter was publifhed in the St. 
 James’s Chronicle. But I never faw or heard of 
 it, till thefe words were printed in the Canter- 
 bury Journal, as Mr. Blackburn’s own. 
 
 And he has nearly made them his own by his 
 faint note upon them, “ I would willingly hope, fomt 
 doubt may be made of this.”Indeed he adds, “ Mr. 
 W lift e field took timely care, to preclude all fufpi- 
 cions of his having any connexions with popery.” 
 Yea, and Mr.Wefley much more: even as early as 
 -A.ug.31, 1738. Again in myjournal, Aug. 27, 1739 
 I publifhed the only letter which I ever wrote 
 to a popifli Pried. And it is in proof of this propo- 
 rtion, (an extraordinary proof of my connexions 
 with pof ?ry!) “ No romanift, as fuch, can expe& 
 to be faved, according to the terms of the Chrif- 
 tian covenant.” 
 
 Many things to the famepurpofe occur in the 
 journals, and the appeals to men of reafon and 
 religion : over and above thofe whole treatifes 
 which I have publifhed entirely upon the fubjeft. 
 A word to a protellant,” a “ Roman Catechifm.” 
 and “ The advantages of the members of the 
 “ church of England, over the members of the 
 “ church of Rome.” 
 
 What amazing ignorance then, not to fay im- 
 pudence, does it imply, for any one at this time 
 
 of 
 
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 of day to “ tax me with having any connexions 
 with popery !” 
 
 In the latter end of the month I took fome pains 
 in reading over Dr. Young’s Night thoughts leav- 
 ing out the indifferent lines, correbting many of 
 of the reft, and explaining the hard words ; in 
 order to make that noble work more ufeful to all 
 and more intelligible to ordinary readers. 
 
 Sunday, January i, 1769, we met, as ufual, at 
 Spital-fields chapel, to renew our covenant with 
 God. And we never do this without a bleffing. 
 Many were comforted, and many ftrengthened. 
 
 Monday g. I fpent a comfortable and profit- 
 able hour with Mr.Whitefield, in calling to mind 
 the former times, and the manner wherein God 
 prepared us for a work, which it had not then 
 entered into our hearts to conceive. 
 
 Tuefday 17. I rode to Chelham. )ur own 
 room being neither fo large, not fo convenient, 
 Mr. Spooner the diflenting minifter, gave me the 
 ufe of his meeting. There was a great number of 
 hearers. They were very attentive ; and I doubt 
 that was all. 
 
 Tuefday 24. I went (by land, and water) to 
 Sheernefs. Our place here would by no means 
 contain the congregation. A large number of them- 
 attended in the morning, and feemed juft ripe 
 for the bleffing. It is an advantage to the people 
 here that they, are in a little corner of the land, 
 (hut up, as it were from all the world j but not 
 from the gofpel or Spirit of Chrift. Thurfday 2 6. 
 
 • K 5 Ire- 
 
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 I returned to Chatham and preached in the great 
 meeting on, God forbid that IJhould g'ory, fave in 
 the crofs of our Lord Jfus Chrifl. Friday 27. I 
 returned to London. The fame day Elizaheth 
 Vandome went to reft. A mouth or two ago. when 
 fhe was firft taken ill, {he di&aled the following 
 letter. 
 
 “ Dear and Rev. Sir, 
 
 When I firft heard thegofpel from you, I was 
 convinced of fin, and nothing could fatisfy me, 
 but a fenfe of pardoning love. For a month the 
 garment of weeping was put upon me night and 
 day : till one day, as I was repeating thofe words, 
 
 I truft in him that ftands between 
 The Father's wrath and me ; 
 
 Jefus, thou great, eternal mean, 
 
 I lopk for all from thee : 
 
 I was ftruck down to the ground, and felt the 
 arm of the Lord revealed in me, I knew that God 
 was reconciled, I felt fan&ification begun. The 
 fight of faith enfned, and for three quarters of a 
 yeaT, I was ftruggling with my own will. Some- 
 times I was in an agony : I was ready to weep 
 my life away, fearing the fins I felt in my heart, 
 would never be done away. Yet I believed there 
 was a reft for the people of God, a reft from all 
 fin. One day converfing withone about the things 
 of God, he faid, “ You would have all things be- 
 come 
 
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 come new, before you believe. But that is not 
 the way. You muft believe firft.” When he 
 went away, the fpirit of prayer and fupplication 
 retied upon me. Yet I felt “ bound down with 
 twice ten thoufand ties.’* However I wreftled on, 
 till the Lord broke in upon my foul, like the fun 
 in his glory. He loo fed me at once from all my 
 bonds, and I knew- 1 loved him with all my heart. 
 Jefus appeared with hair as white as wool, and 
 garments down to his feet, and gave me to fit 
 with him in heavenly places. And from that 
 time (which is feven or eight and twenty years 
 ago) I have felt no temper contrary to love. I 
 have no defire contrary to the will of God. On 
 this bed of ficknefs, I have communion with the 
 church triumphant. I know that 
 
 “ Jefus is my brother now, 
 
 “ And God is all my own.” 
 
 When the tempter comes, my foul cleaves to 
 Jefus, and I am kept in perfeft peace. 
 
 I thought it my duty, to leave this fliort ac- 
 count of the gracious dealings of God with my 
 foul : as you was the inftrument he was pleafed 
 to makeufeof, for the beginning and furthering 
 of his work. O may the Lord ftrengthen you and 
 your brother, and increafe in you every fruit of 
 his fpirit. And when you fail on earth, may we 
 meet in heaven and praife the great Three-one to 
 all eternity ! 
 
 K 6 
 
 “The 
 
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 “ This account was written fome time paft, 
 when jhe was Tick jn bed. But fince then God 
 raifed her up, and enabled her ftill to be ufeful to 
 others, though in great weaknefs of body. When 
 fhe took to her bed again about three weeks ago, 
 (he had a remarkable dream. She thought fhefaw 
 Mr. W. labouring with his might, to keep the 
 people from falling into a deep pit, which very, 
 few of them perceived. The concern fhe 
 was in awaked her in great emotion. On Tuef- 
 day evening laft, file defired us to fet her up in 
 bed, to meet her clafs. Her voice faultered much. 
 She earneflly exhorted them all, to live near to 
 God, and to keep clofe together : adding “ I 
 fhall foon join the church above.” She fpoke no 
 more ; all was filent rapture ; till on Friday morn- 
 ing : without figh or groan, fhe reftgned her 
 fpirit to God.” 
 
 Lydia Vandome. 
 
 Such a living and dying witnefs of the perfeft 
 love of God, which fire enjoyed for eight and 
 twenty years, one would think fufficient to filence 
 all the doubts and obje&ions ofreafonable and 
 candid men. 
 
 Saturday, January 28. I began viftting the 
 clafles. In the intervals I looked over the tranfac- 
 tions of the royal fociety. Is not that a little to* 
 fevere, 
 
 " Turpe tjl diffiales habere nugas ?’* 
 
 * 
 
 If 
 
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 If this be true, and if it had been well confidered 
 would half of thefe tranfaftions have had a being? 
 nay, were men convinced of this, what would be 
 come of the greater part of all the philofophical 
 experiments in Europe ? 
 
 Monday Feb. 6. I fpent an hour with a vener- 
 able woman, near ninety years of age, who retain 
 her health, her fenfes, her underffanding, and 
 even her memory to a good degree. In the laft 
 century fhe belonged to my Grand father Annef- 
 ley’s congregation atwhofe houfe her father and 
 fhe ufed to dine every Thurfday, and whom fhe 
 remembers to have frequently feen in his fludy, 
 at the top of the houfe with his window open, 
 and without any fire, winter or fumrner. He lived 
 feventy-feven years, and would probably have 
 lived longer, had he not began water.drinking at 
 feventy. 
 
 Friday 10. I went to Deptford on purpofe 
 to fee honeft William Brown, worn out with age 
 and pain, and long confined to his bed, without 
 the ufe of either hand or foot. But he has the 
 ufe of his underffanding and his tongue, and tefti- 
 fies, that God does all things well. That he has no 
 doubt or fear, but is chearfullv waiting till !his 
 change fhall come. 
 
 Monday 13. jl rode to Colchefler, and had the 
 fatisfa&ion of feeing fuch a congregation, both 
 this evening and the following as I never faw in 
 that houle before. Wednefday jj. I ro g e to 
 Bury, and found not only an attentive audience, 
 
 but 
 
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 but a little fociety athirft for God. Thurfday 16. 
 Suppofingwe had but five and forty miles to Yar- 
 mouth, I did not fet out till near feven, but 
 proved three-fcore; likewife it rained all day and 
 part of the road was very bad. However God 
 ftrengthened both man and beaft ; fo we reached 
 it before fix in the evening. 
 
 As we were both throughly wet, I was a little 
 afraid for my companion, who was much older 
 than me ; though he had not lived fo many years. 
 But neither of us was any worfe. The congre- 
 gation was the Iargeft I ever faw at Yarmouth. 
 And I fpoke far more plainly (if not roughlv) 
 than ever I did before. But I doubt, if after all 
 the flumbling-blocks laid in their way, any thing 
 will fink into their hearts. 
 
 Friday 17 I abridged Dr. Watts’s pretty trea- 
 tife on the pafiions. His 177 Pages will make an 
 ufeful traft of four and twenty. Why do perfons 
 who treat the fame fubjefts with me write fo 
 much larger books ? Of many reafons, is not 
 this the chief ? We do not write with the fame 
 view : their principal end is to get money : my 
 only one, to do good. 
 
 Saturday 18. We rode to Norwich : Sunday 
 19. at feven, I adminifiered the Lord’s Supper 
 to about 170 ferious communicants. One perfon 
 then found peace with God, and many were 
 comforted. In the evening finding the houfe 
 would not contain one third of the congregation 
 I was obliged to Hand in the open air, a fight which 
 
 has 
 
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 has not been feen at Norwich for many years. 
 Yet all the people were dill, and deeply at- 
 tentive, two or three wild antinomians excepted. 
 
 I preached on the gofpel for the day, the woman 
 of Canaan. I believe God fpake to many hearts. 
 But who will obey his voice? 
 
 Wednefday 22. I rode to Lakenheath, and 
 had more hearers there, than I had had for fe- 
 veral years. I fpoke exceeding plain in the even- 
 ing. One fruit of which was, that the houfe was 
 filled at five in the morning. Thence I returned 
 to Bury, and found the fame little lively compa- 
 ny, whofe fpirit feemed to reach the whole con- 
 gregation. I know not when I have obferved 
 fuch a containing power, as while I was en- 
 forcing, Seek ye the Lord while he may he found ; 
 call upon him while he is near. - . 
 
 Friday 24. I rode to Braintree. The (harp 
 froft did not hinder many Irom attending : and 
 all were ferious and well-behaved. Saturday 25. 
 I went on to London. 
 
 Monday 27. I had one more agreeable con- 
 verfation with my old friend and fellow-labourer, 
 George Whitefield. His foul appeared to be 
 vigorous Hill ; but his body was finking apace. 
 And unlefs God interpofes with his mighty 
 hand, he mull: foon finifh his labours. 
 
 Thurfday, March 2. I buried the remains of 
 Michael Hayes, a good old foldier of Jefus 
 Chrift. He had lived above an hundred and 
 four years, and moftly in vigorous health. His 
 
 fpeech 
 
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 fpeech and underftanding continued to the la II, 
 and as he lived, fo he died, prailing God. 
 
 Sunday 5. After preaching at Spital-fields in 
 the morning, and at Weff-ftreet, in the after- 
 noon I went to Brentford ; on Monday to Hun- 
 gerford, and the next day to Bath. On the road 
 I read over Dr. Campbell’s excellent anfwer to 
 David Hume’s infolent book againft Miracles : 
 and Dr. Brown’s keen animadverfions on the 
 Charabieriftics of Lord Shaftfbury, another lively 
 half-thinking writer. 
 
 In the evening my brother read prayers, and I 
 preached in the Countefs of Huntingdon's chapel. 
 The congregation was very large, and very atten- 
 tive. Let us defpair of nothing ! 
 
 Wednefday 8. I preached at Bridal. and met 
 the fociety. The next three days, I examined 
 them as ufual one by one, and found fome in- 
 creafe in number, with much increafe in peace 
 and love. 
 
 Monday 13. I fet out northward. We had fine 
 weather for a while : then the wind rofe.andthe 
 rain came down amain. We were thoroughly 
 wet before we came to Stroud, but took no cold 
 at all. At fix, the houfe was as ufual, quite filled, 
 though the wind and rain kept many Grangers 
 away. The people appeared to be all alive, and 
 ready to devour the word. Afterwards we had a 
 love-feaft, at which many, both men and women, 
 fpoke with all fimplicity what God had done for 
 their fouls. 
 
 Tuefday 
 
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 Tuefday 14. After preaching to a large con- 
 gregation at five, we rode' toward Tewklbury : 
 notice having been given of mv preaching about 
 noon at an houfe a mile from the town. But we 
 could not get to it ; the floods were fo high : fo 
 I intended to go flrait to Worcefter. But one 
 informing me, a congregation from all parts was 
 waiting, we fet out another wav, and waded 
 through the water. This congregation too feemed 
 quite earnefl ; fo that I did not regret my labour. 
 But the going and coming was hard work, fo 
 that I was a little tired, before we came to Wor- 
 cefter. 
 
 I began preaching about fix in the riding- 
 houfe. Abundance of people were deeply at- 
 tentive. But toward the clofe, a large number of 
 boys made a great noife. When we came out, 
 men and boys joined together, in (homing and 
 puftnng to and fro. Many were frighted, but 
 none hurt. Hitherto could Satan come, but no 
 farther. 
 
 Wednefdav 1 5. My horfe being lame, and part 
 of the road very bad, I did not reach Mr. Lee’s 
 of Cotery till noon. The houfe is delightfully 
 fituated in his park, at the top of a fruitful hill. 
 His chaplain had juft begun reading prayers. 
 Afterwards he defired me to give an exhortation. 
 So I could not take horfe till half hour after one, 
 when I had eight and twenty miles to ride on a 
 lame horfe. I came however to Shrewfbury be- 
 tween 
 
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 tween five and fix, and preached to a large artd 
 quiet congregation. As we returned, the rabble 
 was noify enough : but they ufed only their 
 tongues. So all was well. 
 
 Thurfday 16. We rode with a furious wind/ 
 full in our face, to Chefter. Friday 17, and the 
 next days we had a refrefhing feafon, with a lov- 
 ing people, and in a loving family. The con- 
 gregations were not fmall in the mornings ; in 
 the evenings exceeding large. And all who at- 
 tended behaved, as if they not only underftood, 
 but relifhedthe good word. 
 
 Sunday 19. Elizabeth Oldham called upon me. 
 She told me, “ Some time fmce my mother faid,” 
 * Call my fon to fee me die.’ He afked, ‘ Have 
 you any fear of death ?’ She faid, ‘ O no. That 
 is gone long fince. Perfect love caffs out fear. 
 Do not you fee him ? There he is, waiting to 
 receive my foul.’ She then fang with a clear 
 voice, 
 
 Praife God from whom all bleffings flow : 
 
 And ended her fong and her life together. 
 
 Every round my hufband took lately, being 
 doubtful when he took horfe, whether he fhould 
 not drop by the w r ay ; he carried a paper in his 
 pocket, telling who he was, and whether he was 
 going. This day five weeks, being exceeding 
 weak, he feared he fhould not be able to preach. 
 
 But 
 
C 2 35 ] 
 
 But I faid, ‘ My dear, go into the pulpit, and the 
 Lord will ftrengthen thee.’ And after he had 
 fpoke a few words, the Lord did ftrengthen him. 
 Neither did he fpeakin vain: many were com- 
 forted : feveral juflified. One of thefe faid, “He 
 is going to reft foon, and I (hall go with him.” 
 He died in full triumph the next Lord’s day ; and 
 fhe two hours after.” 
 
 “ But a day or two before he died, I felt a kind 
 of unwillingnefs to give him up. I was mourn- 
 ing before the Lord concerning this, when he 
 faid to my inmoft foul, ‘ Wilt thou not give him 
 back tome, whom I have fitted for myfelf?’ I 
 faid, ‘ Lord, Ido, I do give him up.’ And imme- 
 diately he changed for death. 
 
 “ On the Sunday following, I was faying to 
 my little maid, (always a ferious and dutiful child, 
 three years and an half old.) ‘ Hannah, doft 
 thou love God?’ She eagerly anfwered, “Yes, 
 mammy, I do.” She added, “ I will go to 
 God, I will go to God leaned down and 
 died.” 
 
 Tuefday 21 . I went to Park-gate, and about 
 eleven, embarked on board the King George. 
 We had mild weather and fmooth water all day. 
 The next day, the weft wind blew frefh. Yet 
 about five we were in Dublin-bay, where we 
 procured a fifhing-boat, which brought us to Dun- 
 
 lary. 
 
[ 2 3 6 ] 
 
 lary. Here we took a cbaife, and got to Dublin 
 about eight o’clock. 
 
 On Thurfday, Friday and Saturday, I laboured 
 to allay the ferment which bill remained in the 
 fociety. I heard the preachers face to face once 
 and again, and endeavoured to remove their lit- 
 tle mifunderftandings. And they did come a lit- 
 tle nearer to each other : but ftill a jealoufy was 
 left, without an entire removal of which, there 
 can be no cordial agreement. 
 
 March 26. Eafter-day. Many felt the power 
 of the Spirit, which raifed Jefus from the dead. 
 On Monday andTuefday I vifited theclafies, and 
 the refult of my clofeft obfervation xvas, x. That 
 out of five hundred members whom I left here, 
 oniv four hundred and fifty temained : 2. That 
 near half of the believers had fuffered lofs, and 
 many quite given up their faith : 3. That the 
 reft were mote eftablifhed than ever, and foine 
 fwiftly growing in grace. So that confideiing 
 the heavy ftorms they had gone through, if there 
 was caufe of humiliation on the one hand', there 
 was on the other, more abundant caufe of thank- 
 fulnefs, to him who had faved fo many when all 
 the waves went over them. 
 
 Thurfday 30. I was fummoned to the court of 
 confcience b\ a poor creature who fed my horfes 
 three or four times while I v as on board. For 
 this fervice he demanded ten {hillings. I gave 
 him half a crown. When I informed the court 
 
 of 
 
[ 2 37 3 
 
 of this, he was fharply reproved: let all beware 
 
 of thefe land- (harks on our fea-coafts ! My 
 
 fcraps of time this week I employed in reading 
 the account of Commodore Byron. I never be- 
 fore read of any who endured fuch hardfhips, and 
 furvived them. Sure no novel in the world caa 
 be more affefting, or more furprizing than this 
 hiftory. 
 
 Monday, April 3. I took horfe at four ; and 
 notwithflanding the north-eaft wind, came to 
 Newry before five in the evening. It was fo ex- 
 tremely cold, that the congregation in the mar- 
 ket-houfe was but fmall. The next evening it 
 was confiderably increafed. Wednefday 5. I 
 rode to Terryhugan, where the poor people had 
 raifed a tent (fo called) to fcreen me from the 
 north wind. I urged them with much enlarge- 
 ment of heart. Not to receive the grace of God in 
 vain. Thence we rode to Lifburn. The wind 
 was ftill piercing cold : yet it did not hinder a 
 multitude of people from attending at the Linen- 
 hall, an open fquare fo termed, as are all the Li- 
 nen-halls in Ireland. 
 
 Thurfday 6. I defigned to preach at noon in 
 the market-houfe at Belfaft. But it was pre- 
 engaged bv a dancing-mafier : fo I flood in the 
 ftreet, which doubled the congregation, to whom 
 I ftrongly declared. All have fumed, and are come . 
 Jhort of the glory of Gad. But ibis many of them 
 had no ears to hear, being faithful followers of 
 Dr. Taylor. 
 
 Coming 
 
[ 2 38 ] 
 
 Coming to Cairickfergus, I found it was the 
 time of the quarter feffions. This greatly in- 
 creafed the congregation. And moll of them 
 feemed to be deeply affe£fed, rich as well as poor. 
 Friday 7 . I preached at eleven, and I believe, all 
 the gentlemen in the town were prefent. So 
 were all at Newtown in the evening, while I in- 
 forced thofe folemn words, God now commandelh 
 all men, every where., to repent. 
 
 Saturday b. 1 returned to Lifburn, where I was 
 agreeably lurprized by a vifit from Mr. Higgin- 
 fon, redlor of Ballinderry. He faid, “ I was 
 prejudiced in favour of the Moravians, fettled in 
 my parifh, till the late affair. One of my pa- 
 rilhoners, Mr. Campbel, died, leaving by will 
 his fortune to his two daughters, and in cafe of 
 their death, a thoufand pounds to the poor of the 
 parilh. His widow was extremely ill ; notwith- 
 lianding which, fome of the brethren, to whom 
 {he was quite devoted, came in the depth of 
 winter, and carried her by night feveral miles to 
 their houfe. She died in a few days after (lie 
 had made a will, wherein fhe made two of them 
 executors, a third guardian to the children; and 
 in cafe of their death, left the whole ellate to the 
 brethren. They concealed her death fix days. 
 Mean time two of them went to Dublin, and 
 procured letters of adminiftration, and of guar- 
 dianfhip. Soon after I was preffed, to undertake 
 the caufe of the orphans. I went to Dublin and 
 
 laid 
 
 
[ 2 39 ] 
 
 laid the affair before the Lord Chancellor, who 
 after a full hearing, cancelled the fecond will, and 
 ordered the firft to ftand.” 
 
 At my leifure minutes yefterday and to-day, I 
 read Mr. Glanvil’s Sadducifmus Triumphatus. 
 But fome of his relations I cannot receive ; and 
 much lefs his way of accounting for them. All 
 his talk of Acrtal and AJlral Spirits , I take to be 
 ftark nonfenfe. Indeed, fuppofing the fa£Is 
 true, I wonder a man of fenfe fhould attempt to 
 account for them at all. For w'ho can explain the 
 things of the invifible world, but the inhabitants 
 of it? 
 
 Tuefday n.I preached in the market-houfe in 
 Tandragee to one of the livelieft congregations 
 in the kingdom. Thurfday and Friday I preach- 
 ed at Dawfon’s Grove and Kihnararty ; and on 
 Saturday 15, rode to Derry Anvil, a little village, 
 out of all road, furiounded with bogs, juft like 
 my old parifh of Wroote in Lincolnfhire. The 
 congregation however was exceeding large, and 
 exceeding lively. I talked large with feveral of 
 them who believe they are faved from fin, and 
 found no caufe to difbelieve them. And I met 
 with many more in thefe parts, who witnefs the 
 fame confeffion. 
 
 Sunday 16. At nine I preached in a meadow 
 near Cock-hill to a liftning multitude. I fuppofe 
 we fhould have had twice the number in the 
 evening; but the rain prevented. The grafs 
 
 being 
 
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 being wet, I flood in the highway, while 
 many flood in the neighbouring houfes. And 
 the word of God was as the rain upon the tender 
 herb. 
 
 Monday 17, In the evening, and twice on 
 Tuefday 1 preached to a genteel, yet furious au- 
 dience, in Mr. M’Gough’s avenue at Armagh. 
 But God only can reach the heart. Wednefdav 
 10. As it rained, I chule rather to preach in Mr. 
 M’Gough’s yard. The rain increafing, we re- 
 tired into one of his buildings. This was the firft 
 time that I preached in a liable : and I believe 
 more good was done by this, than all the other 
 fermons I have preached at Armagh. 
 
 We took horfe abotlt ten, being defired to call 
 at Kinnard (ten or eleven miles out of the way) 
 where a [little focietv had been lately formed, 
 who were much alive to God. At the town 
 end I was met by a meffenger from Archdea- 
 con C — — e, who defired I would take a bed 
 with him, and foon after by another, who told 
 me, “ The Archdeacon defied I would alight 
 at his door.” I did fo, and found an old friend 
 whom I had not feen for four or five and thirty 
 years. He received me with the mofl cordial af- 
 feftion, and after a time, faid, “ We have been 
 building a new church, which my neighbours 
 expected me to open. But if you pleafe to do 
 it, it will be as well.” Hearing the bell, the peo- 
 ple flocked together, from all parts of the town, 
 and received the word with all readinefs of 
 
 mind. 
 
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 mind. I faw the hand of God was in this, for the 
 ■ftrengthning of this loving people : feveral of 
 whom believe, that the blood of Chrift has 
 cleanfed them from all fin. 
 
 Hence we rode through a pleafant country to 
 Charlemount, where I preached to a very large 
 and ferious congregation, near the Fort, which 
 has a ditch round it, with fome face of a fortifica- 
 tion : and probably (according to cuftom) cofts 
 the government a thoufand a year, for not three 
 farthings fervice ! 
 
 Thurfday 20. I went on to Cafile-Caulfield, 
 and preached on the green adjoining to the caftle, 
 to a plain, ferious people, who ftill retain all their 
 earneftnefs and fimplicity. Thence I rode to 
 Cookfiown, a town confiding of one ftreet, about 
 a mile long, running direbtly through a bog. I 
 preached to moft of the inhabitants of the town : 
 and fo the next day, morning and evening. 
 Many received the word with, gladnefs. Perhaps 
 they will not all be Jlony-ground hearers. 
 
 We took the new road to Dungevan. But it 
 was hard work. 
 
 ' I 
 
 “ Nigh foundered on we fared, 
 
 “ Treading the crude confidence.” 
 
 We were near five hours going fourteen miles, 
 partly on horfe-back, partly on foot. We had as 
 ufual, a full houfe at Londondeny in the even- 
 ing, and again at eight on Sunday morning. In 
 Vol. XXXII. L the 
 
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 the afternoon we had a brilliant congregation : 
 but fuch a fight gives me no great pleafure ; as I 
 have very little hope of doing them good : only 
 with God all things are pojjible. 
 
 Both this evening and the next I fpoke ex- 
 ceeding plain to the members of the fociety. In 
 no other place in Ireland has more pains' been 
 taken by the moll able of our preachers. And to 
 how little purpofe! Bands they have none: four 
 and forty perfons in the fociety ! The greater 
 part of thefe heartlefs and cold : the audience 
 in general dead as Hones. However we are to 
 deliver our melfage. And let our Lord do as 
 feemeth him good. 
 
 Tuefday 25. I fixt again the meeting of the 
 fingers and of the children, both which had been 
 difcontinued. Indeed a general remiffnefs had 
 prevailed, fince the morning preaching was given 
 up : no wonder : wherever this is given up, the 
 glory is departed from us. 
 
 Wednefday 26. Being to preach at Brickfield, 
 four or five (Englifh) miles from Derry, I chofe 
 walking, to fhew thefe poor indolent crea'ures, 
 how to ufe their own feet. Finding the bulk of 
 the hearers quite fenfelefs, I fpoke as ftrongly as 
 I could, on, Where their worm dieth not, and the 
 jire is not quenched. But I did not perceive 
 they were at all affefled. God only can raife the 
 dead. 
 
 Thurfday 27. I went to a village called The 
 
 New 
 
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 New Buildings, about three miles from the city, 
 and preached in a field near the town, to a civil, 
 carelefs congregation. In the evening I preached 
 in our room, on, If thou canjl believe, all things 
 are pojjible to him that believeth. And now firft I 
 faw a profpecl of doing good here, (I mean fince 
 I came lafi.) God did arife to maintain his own 
 caufe : and the ftout-hearted t'rembled before 
 him. 
 
 Friday 28. I preached again at Brickfield ; and 
 God made home impreffion on the ftony hearts. 
 But much more at Derry in the evening. Here 
 he fpoke with his mighty voice : and I believe 
 many were juft on the brink of believing in the 
 name of the Son of God. 
 
 Sunday 28. 1 preached to a very large congre- 
 gation at The New Buildings, who now were 
 all attention. I preached in the evening at 
 Derry, and having taken a folemn leave of 
 the fociety, rode to Brickfield and flept in 
 peace. 
 
 Monday, May 1. I rode to Augher. It being 
 extremely hot, I came in faint and weary : be- 
 fore I finifhed my ferinon, my head turned 
 giddy, and I could hardly Hand. But I had a good 
 night’s reft, and rofe as well as when I left Dub- 
 lin. 
 
 Tuefday 2. I began preaching at Sydare, about 
 half hour after five. And it was a day of God’s 
 power. The impreffion was general, if not uni- 
 verfal : none appeared to be unmoved. This 
 L 2 coniirained 
 
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 conftrained me to inlarge in prayer, as I have not 
 done for fome years. So that I did not difmifs 
 the congregation, till it was almoft eight 
 o’clock. 
 
 Wednefday 3. About neon, I preached in the 
 market-place at Innilkillen, once inhabited only 
 by Proteftants. But it has loll its glorying, hav- 
 ing now at leaft five Papifls to one ProtePiant. 
 There was a large number of hearers, feme civil, 
 fome rude, almoft all totally unaffedied. Thence 
 I rode fix or feven miles to Tonny-Lommon, 
 where was a congregation of quite another kind. 
 Great part of them knew in whom they had be- 
 lieved : all were deeply and fteadily attentive. 
 And many were thoroughly convinced of inbred 
 fin, and groaning for full redemption. 
 
 Thurfday 4. I found near Swadling-Bar, as 
 artlefs, as earned, and as loving a people as even 
 at Tonny-Lommon About fix 1 preached at the 
 town’s end, the very Papifts appearing as atten- 
 tive as the Proteftants. And I doubt not, thou- 
 fands of thefe would foon be zealous Chriftians, 
 were it not for their wretched priefts, who will 
 not enter into the kingdom of God themfelves, 
 and diligently hinder thofethat would. 
 
 Friday 5. I rode over the Black Mountains, to 
 Mannor-bamilton : fo called from a poor wretch 
 who fettled here in the laft century, and was fa- 
 mous for nothing elfe, but hanging up all the 
 Irifh who fell into his hands. There was a gene- 
 ral 
 
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 ral love to the gofpel here, till fimple R. W. 
 preached againft the clergy. ’Tis ftrange every 
 one does not fee, 1. The finfulnefs of railing at 
 the clergy : if they are blind leaders of the blind, 
 then (fays our Lord) Let them' alone : 2. The 
 foolijhnejs of it. It never can do good ; and has 
 frequently done much harm. 
 
 At fix, I preached to a large congregation in 
 the feffions-haufe. All behaved well, but one 
 young gentlewoman, who laughed almoft incef- 
 fantly. She knew there was nothing to laugh at : 
 but fhe thought fhe laughed prettily. 
 
 Saturday 6. In the evening, I preached near 
 the market-houfe in Sligo, to a large and tolerably 
 quiet congregation. But I foon found I was 
 {hooting over their heads, in talking of falvation 
 by faith . So at eight in the morning, Sunday 7. 
 
 I fuited myfelf to their capacity, by preaching 
 on, Where their worm dieth not , and the fre is not 
 quenched. The effeft was, that the evening con- 
 gregation was fuch as I had not feen here for 
 many years. 
 
 Monday 8 . 1 rode to Caftle barr, and at feven 
 preached in the court- houfe. Tuefday 9.. I dined 
 at Sir C. B.’s ; who afked me if it would be con- 
 venient for me to give them a ferrnon in his 
 hall? We fent to the court-’noufe, and the peo- 
 ple w'ho were waiting there, came up without 
 delay. The family were in the parlour, the bulk 
 of the congregation in the hall and the long paf- 
 L 3 fage. 
 
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 fage. Wednefday 10. I preached in the court- 
 houfe, on, Put on the zihole armour of God : and 
 taking horfe early in the morning, Thurfday 11, 
 rode to Galway. 
 
 About feven I preached in the feflions-houfe, 
 a large commodious place, where were hearers 
 of every fort. All were filent and tolerably civil : 
 fome appeared to be a little affe&ed. Many offi- 
 , cers and a confiderable number of genteel peo- 
 ple attended the next evening. And I am in 
 hopes a few of them will not eafily forget what 
 they then heard. 
 
 Saturday 13. We rode to Limerick. This 
 evening I preached in the room ; and at eight in 
 the morning, Whitfunday, but was much fcanda- 
 Jized at the fmallnefs of he congregation. In the 
 evening I preached in the Qld C-unp, where 
 the congregation was larger than it fad been for 
 feveral years. So it was likewife on h >nday and 
 Tuefday evening. But fiill I obferved none 
 wounded among them ; nor any thing more than 
 a calm, dull attention. 
 
 V/ednefday 17. I preached in Ballygarane at 
 noon, and in the evening at Newmarket. One 
 gentlewoman, violently prejudiced againft this 
 way, at fit ft flood at a diftance. Then fhe came 
 a little nearer ; afterwards fat down, and in a Ihort 
 time hid her face. She attended again in the 
 morning, being much convinced of fin, particu- 
 larly of defpifing the real word of God. 
 
 We 
 
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 We obferved Friday lg, as a day of faffing and 
 prayer, for a revival of his work. Many attended 
 both at five, nine, and one, but abundance more 
 at the watch-night. And then it was that God 
 touched the hearts of the people, even of thofe 
 that were twice dead. * 
 
 Sunday 21. I was in hopes of taking the field 
 in the afternoon ; but the rain prevented. Yet I 
 did not repent of the difappointment ; fo great 
 was the power of God in the midft of us. I be- 
 lieve few were untouched : many were deeply 
 wounded; many rejoiced with joy unfpeakable. 
 The fame power was prefent the next morning 
 and evening, both to wound and to heal. God 
 employed his two-edged fword on every fide, in 
 a manner I bad not feen here for many years. O 
 how ready is he to anfwer every prayer, that go • 
 eth not out oj feigned lips. 
 
 Tuefday 23. We had an evening congregation 
 at five, and an exceeding foiemn parting. At fix 
 in the evening I cried to a company a little 
 above brutes. Why zoUl'ye die, 0 houfe. of If rati? 
 This was at Kii finnan. 1 lodged a mile from the 
 town, among fome that were alive to God. 
 
 Thurfday 24. I had a cool pleafant ride to 
 Cork ; where I foon heard how cold and care- 
 lefs the people were. I aiked, ‘ But are not the 
 fociety at leaf! alive ?’ “ No. Thefe are the cold- 
 eft of all.” What then ? Are we to be carelefs 
 too ? Nay, fo much the more let us ftir up the 
 gift of God that is in us. 1 began in the evening 
 L 4 to 
 
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 to fpeak exceeding plain : and I prefently faw 
 fome fruit: the congregation at five in the morn- 
 ing was not much lefs than it was in the evening. 
 Many faw their lofs ; God gave me again very 
 fharp, though loving words. I truft this aifo is a 
 token for good, and Satan fhall not long triumph 
 over us. 
 
 Friday 25. I rode to Bandon. Sirree I was 
 here before, fevera! have gone home rejoicing. 
 But others are come in ti ir place. So that the 
 fociety contains juft as ma ly members as when I 
 left it. And moll of he believers leem much 
 alive ; particularly the young men, maidens and 
 children. 
 
 In the evening we were obliged to be in the 
 houfe. But the next, Friday 26, I Hood in the 
 main ftreet and cried to a numerous congrega- 
 tion, Fear God and keep his commandment s,Jor this 
 is the whole of man. Afterwards I vifited one, 
 that a year or two ago was in high life, an emi- 
 nent beauty, adored by _ her hufband, admired 
 and care fled by fome of the firft men in the na- 
 tion. She was now without hulband, without 
 friend, without fortune, confined to her bed, in 
 conftant pain, and in black defpair, believing 
 herfelf forfaken of God and polfelfed by a legion 
 of devils! Yet I found great liberty in praying 
 for her, and a flrong hope, that Ihe will die in 
 peace. 
 
 Sunday 28. I returned to Cork. The rain 
 drove us into the houfej which was once more 
 
 throughly 
 
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 throughly filled. I fcarce ever fpoke fo plain as I 
 did both this and the two following days. Yet 
 for many years the congregations have not been 
 fo large. Wednefday and Thurfday I vifited the 
 dalles. Decreafing Hill ! Seven years ago we had 
 near four hundred members in this city; five 
 years fince, about three hundred members. Two 
 years ago they were two hundred ; now one 
 hundred and ninety. On Thurfday evening, 
 June 1, I preached at Blackpool, to fuch a con- 
 gregation as I never faw there before. Friday 2. 
 We obferved as a day of fading and prayer. At 
 five and at nine we found God was with us; but 
 much more at one, and moll of all at the watch- 
 night, during the application of thofe awful 
 words, Where their worm dieth not , and the fire is 
 not quenched. 
 
 Saturday 3. I preached at Blackpool again. 
 Again multitudes of publicans and finners drew 
 near, and gladly heard that there is joy in heaven 
 over one fiinner that repenteth. Sunday 4. The rain 
 again prevented my preaching at the Barrack- 
 hill. But God was again prefent at the roonv 
 and filled many fouls with ftrong confolation.. 
 When I took my leave of the fociety, many 
 were moved, fearing we fhould meet no more. 
 If not, is it not enough that we fhould meet 
 again, at the refurreflion of the jud ? 
 
 Monday 5. Having been much importuned, to 
 give them a day or two more, I rode to Lime- 
 L 5 rick.. 
 
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 rick. Tuefday 6. I looked over Mr. Turner’s 
 Remarkable Providences. What pity is it, that the 
 author had not a little judgment as well as piety! 
 What an heap of things has he huddled together, 
 good, bad and indifferent! But how fine a treatife 
 might a man of fenfe colled! out of it ? After en- 
 couraging as many as I could both in public and 
 private, to prefs on toward the mark , on Thurfday 
 8. 1 once more took my leave of this loving peo- 
 ple, and fet out for Waterford. We intended to 
 dine at Tipperary, but were diredled wrong. At 
 length we ftumbled on a little town, called Gold- 
 ing. And here I found poor Michael Wefton, 
 who rambled hither from Weftminfter, fome 
 months fince, in queft of an ellate. I clearly fa w 
 the providence of God, diredling me hither, be- 
 fore he was quite ftarved. Thence we rode to 
 the Garter, near Clonmell, (where we had ex- 
 cellent entertainment :) and the next morning, 
 over exceeding pleafant ami well- cultivated 
 mountains, to Waterford. 
 
 Never was the profpeft more gloomy here 
 than at prefent. Through tire continual negledl 
 of the preachers, the congregation was reduced 
 aixo'ft to nothing: and fo w«s the fociety. Yet 
 1 found much liberty of fpeech in the evening, 
 and a ftrong hope, that God would revive his 
 work. 
 
 I was invited to lodge at Mr. Scot’s, a confr- 
 derable tradefinan. I found a young gentlewo- 
 
 man 
 
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 man there, a vifitant, well-bred, fenfible, good- 
 humoured ; fludious to oblige, and lacking no- 
 thing , but the one thing. Saturday 10. The room 
 was quite filled in the morning. In the evening 
 I preached in the court, to thrice as many as the 
 room would contain. And all were not only quiet 
 but attentive. 
 
 Sunday 1 1. The congregation at eight was ftill 
 larger. But not many feemed to be unaffefled. 
 In the evening the court was filled, and I be- 
 lieve God opened both the underftanding, and 
 the hearts of many. Afterwards I met the fociety, 
 and endeavoured to lift up the hands that hung 
 down. Light began to fpring up. Mifunderftand- 
 ings vanifhed away, and the fpirits of many re- 
 vived. 
 
 Monday 12. I laboured to re-unite the poor, 
 fhattered fociety, and to remove the numberlefs 
 offences which had torn them in pieces. Tuef- 
 day 13. In the evening God began to anfwerfor 
 himfelf. I fcarce ever faw a more deep and ge- 
 neral impreffion made on a congregation. At the 
 meeting of the fociety likewife, he refrefhed us 
 with the multitude of peace. 
 
 Wednefday 14. I preached in the market- 
 houfe at Paffage, to as dull a congregation as 1 
 have feen-. They would have been rude enough 
 too, but that they flood in awe of Mr. Freeftone, 
 who gave one and another, when they did not 
 regard his figns, a ftroke on the head with his 
 L6 flick. 
 
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 flick. By this means the whole multitude was 
 tolerably quiet, and many feemed much affe&ed. 
 
 A little before twelve I came to Old Rofs, and 
 preached to a fmall, ferious congregation. 
 Thence we went on to Innifcorthy : but the dif- 
 ficulty was, where I fhould preach ? It rained, 
 but no houfe would contain the people. We 
 made the belt fhiit we could, by flowing as many 
 as pofftble in the houfe: the reft, as I flood near 
 the door, w'ere quiet without. It was an uncom- 
 mon time, particularly with regard to thofe who 
 had oppofed the truth. One dropt down like a 
 ftone ; many trembled and wept exceedingly. 
 All declared, that fuch a work as this, was never 
 feen at Innifcorthy before. 
 
 Thurfday 15 . 1 began to preach a little before 
 five, on the kingdom of God within us. The hearts 
 of the hearers, one and all, feemed to be as melt- 
 ing wax. Surely it was not for nothing, that Sa- 
 tan fought fo furioufly, to keep the gofpel from 
 this place. 
 
 Indeed there has not been hotter perfecution 
 of late years any where in the kingdom than 
 here. The mob encouraged by their fuperiors, 
 beat and abufed whom they pleafed, broke open 
 their houfes, and did juft what they lifted. A 
 wretched clergyman confirmed them therein, 
 and applied to the Methodift preachers, 2 Tim. 
 iit. 6, 7, (the very text of that unhappy gentle- 
 man at Briftol, which he uttered and dropped 
 flown in the pulpit) After he had painted them 
 
 ' as 
 
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 as black as devils, he added, “ 1 have not time to 
 “ fmlfh now : next Sun. I will give you the reft. 
 But the next morning he was {truck in a ftrange 
 manner. He could not bear to be a moment 
 alone. He cried out, “ i hofe hobgoblins, do 
 not you fee them ? There, t'n^re ! The room is 
 full of them.” Having continued thus fome 
 days, he (creamed out, “ See that hobgoblin at 
 the bed’s feet ! O that roll, that roll which he 
 holds up to me ! All my fins are written therein. - ’ 
 Not long after, without {hewing the lead fign of 
 hope, he went to his account. 
 
 In the afternoon I came to Kilkenny, and in the 
 evening preached in the Tholfel. A more civil 
 and unawakened audience, I know not when I 
 have feen. The bulk of them appeared to be no 
 more affefted, than if I had been talking Greek. 
 However many of them attended the next morn- 
 ing, and more than ever in the evening. And 
 all behaved well but one gentleman, who took 
 much pains to divert thofe that were near him. 
 
 I fixed my eyes upon him, but he did not regard 
 it. I was then obliged to fpeak to him ; and he 
 was filent. 
 
 Saturday 17. I finifired “ Hiftoric doubts on 
 “ the Life and reign of Richard the third.” 
 What an amazing monfter both in body and mind 
 have our hiftorians and poets painted him ! And 
 yet I think Mr. Walpole makes it more clear, 
 than one could expe£t at this diflance of time, 1. 
 
 “ That he was not only not remarkably deform- 
 ed, but on the contrary remarkably handfome. 
 
 2 . That 
 
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 2. That his Queen, whom he entirely loved, 
 died a natural death. 3. That his nephew, Ed- 
 ward the fifth, did fo too : there being no fhadow 
 of proof to the contrary. 4. That his other ne- 
 phew Richard, was the very perfon whom Henry 
 the feventh murdered, after conflraining him to 
 call himfell Perkin-W arheck. 5. That the death 
 of his brother, the Duke of Clarence, was the foie 
 aft, not of him, but Edward the fourth. 6. That he 
 had no hand at all in the murder of Henry the fixth, 
 any more than of his fon. And laflly, That he 
 was clear of all blame, as to the execution of 
 Lord Haltings : as well as of Rivers, Grey, and 
 
 Vaughan.” What- a furprizing thing is it then 
 
 that all our hiltorians fhould have fo readily fwal- 
 lowed the account of that wretch who killed , 
 and alfo took pojfejfion of the throne : and blun- 
 dered on one after another ? Only it is to be 
 obferved, for fifty years, no one could contra- 
 di£l that account, but at the peril of his head. 
 
 Sunday 18. As it rained, I preached morn- 
 ing and evening in the Tholfel, to a multitude 
 of people. I fpoke exceeding plain, and all 
 received it in love. Perhaps fome may bring 
 forth fruit. 
 
 Mond. 19. In the evening I preached at Birr, 
 and removed fome mifunderllandings w T hich had 
 crept into the fociety. Tuefday 20. I went on 
 to Aghrim, and fpoke as plain as poffibly I could 
 to a money-loving people, on God faid unto him. 
 Thou fool ! But I am afraid many of them are fer- 
 
 mon- 
 
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 mon-Droof. Yet God has all power. And fome- 
 times he fends, when and whe-re it pleases hinj, 
 
 “ O’erwhelming fliowers of faving grace. 
 
 But I have never obferved thefe to lad long. And 
 in all the intervals of them, he aSls by his Hand- 
 ing rule, Unto him , that hath, and ufes what he 
 hath Jkall be given : and he Jhall have more abun- 
 dantly : but from him that hath, not , ufes it not, 
 Jhall be taken away even that he hath. 
 
 Wednefday 21. I went on to Athlone. Friday 
 23. I rode to Abidarrig, to the quarterly meet- 
 ing. Many of the people came from far : and 
 God gave them a good reward for their labour. 
 Saturd, 2q. We returned to Athlone. Sund. 25. 
 In the afternoon I Hood in Barrack-Street, and 
 cried aloud to a mixt multitude, Behold I ftand 
 at the door and knock. I never before faw fo 
 quiet a congregation on this fide the water. There 
 was not only no tumult, but no murmur to be 
 heard, no fmile to be feen on any face. 
 
 Monday 26. About noon, I preached on the 
 Green, at Clara, to an exceeding ferious congre- 
 gation : and in the evening at Tuilarnore. Tuef. 
 27. I found a little increafe in the fociety. But 
 there cannot be much without more field-preach- 
 ing. Wherever this is intermitted, the work 
 of God Hands Hill, if it does not go back. 
 
 To-day, I wrote to a pious and fenfible wo- 
 man as follows 
 
 Tuilarnore, 
 
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 Tullamore, 27th June, 1769* 
 
 Dear Madam, 
 
 “ When I had the pleafure of converfing with 
 you fome years fince, you had a regard both for 
 me, and the people called Methodifts. II I am 
 rightly informed you are now of another mind. 
 May I alk, when did that change begin ? Was it 
 at your laft journey to Dublin ? Whenever it 
 was. Suffer me to afk, What were the reafons of 
 it ? I will tell you what I conje&ure, and I do it 
 in writing becaufe I may not have an opportuni- 
 ty of talking with you ; becaufe I can write more 
 freely than I could fpeak : becaufe I can now 
 fay all 1 have to fay at once : whereas, if we 
 were talking together, I might probably forget 
 fome part : and becaufe you may by this means 
 have the better opportunity of calmly confider- 
 ing it. 
 
 “ I conje&ure, (to tell you juft what raifes in 
 my heart) that this change was owing to feveral 
 caufes. Some admired and commended you as a 
 perfon of uncommon fenfe and uncommon attain- 
 ments in religion. Others told you at large from 
 time to time, all the real or fuppofed faults of the 
 Methodifts, In particular, the jarrs which had 
 lately been in Dublin, on account of Mr. Mor- 
 gan and Olivers. This naturally tended to breed 
 and increafe pride on the one hand, and prejudice 
 on the other. Riches increafed : which not only 
 led you ftep by ftep into more comfcrmily to the 
 world, but infenfibly inftilled felf-importance, un- 
 
 willingnefs 
 
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 willinefs to be contradicted, and an over-bearing 
 temper. And hence you was of courfe difguded 
 at thofe who did not yield to this temper, and 
 blamed that conformity. Perhaps fome of thefe 
 profeiTedor expected to be perfeBed in love . They 
 at leafl believed perfeBion. Now this you feemed 
 - to hate with a perfeCt hatred: and on that ac- 
 count dillt ked them the more. 
 
 “ Permit me to add a few words on each of 
 thefe heads. And firft would it not be well, if 
 you darted back from every appearance of ad- 
 miration (which you know is deadly poifon) whe- 
 ther on account of your fenfe or piety ? Aodifyou 
 utterly difcountenanced all, who direCVly or in- 
 direCtly commended you to ) our face ? Yea, and 
 all who told you of the jarrs or faults of the Metho- 
 difts ? Or indeed of any abfent perfon ? 
 
 “ Should you not earnedly drive and pray 
 againd thinking highly of your own underdand- 
 ing, or attainments in religion ? Otherwife this, 
 by grieving the Holy Spirit, would expofe you to 
 dill more prejudice ; efpecially towards thofe 
 who might feem to vie with you in religion, if 
 not in underdanding. 
 
 “ Can you be too fenfible, how hardly they that 
 have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven ? 
 Yea, or into the kingdom of an inward heaven p 
 Into the whole fpirit of the gofpel ? Plow hard is 
 it for thefe (whether you do or no) not to conform 
 too much to the world ! How hard not to be a 
 little overbearing , efpecially to inferiors ? 
 
 “ Is 
 
[ 25 8 ] 
 
 *' Is it right to be dijgujled at triofe who fear 
 you conform too far: who do not fir. ! do /n 
 before you ? Nay, perhaps oppofe youv judgment, 
 or blame your pra&ice : 
 
 6 ‘ And with regard to perfection. Have not 
 they that hold it, the fain at to be angry w;h 
 
 you for denying it, as yo n them for affirm- 
 
 ing it ? 
 
 “ But what is it you are angry at ? What is it 
 you objeft o ? Let us undei nd the gueftion, 
 before we difpute about it. 
 
 “ By Chriftian perfection I mean 1. Lc g 
 God with all our heart. Do you oojeft to this i' I 
 mean, 2. A heart and life all devoted to God. 
 Do you defire lefs ? I mean, 3. Regaining the 
 whole image of God. What objection to this ? I 
 mean, 4. Having^// the mi’id that was in Chrift. Is 
 this going too far ? I mean, 5. Walking uniformly 
 as Chrift walked. And this furely no Chriftian w ill 
 objeCt to. — If any one means any thing more, or 
 any thingelfe by perfection I have no concern with 
 it. But if this is wrong, yet what need of this heat 
 about it, this violence, I had almoft faid fury ofop- 
 pofttion? Carried fo far as even not to lay out anv 
 thing with this man, or that woman who profef- 
 
 fes it. “ Nay fays Mrs. 1 did not refrain 
 
 from it for this only ; but for their efpoufing 
 Mr. Oliver’s caufe againft Mr. Morgan.” 
 Worfe and worfe ! what are people to ftarve (at 
 leaft for me) unlefs they think as I think, or like 
 
 whom 
 
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 whom I like ? Alas, what religion, what numa- 
 nity, what romaon fenfe is this ? 
 
 “ But I have done. I have once for all taken 
 upon myfelf a molt unthankful office. I ha\ e 
 fpoken with all piainnefsand fimplicity, and now 
 leave the event to God. May he open your heart 
 that you may difcern his holy, and acceptable, 
 and perfeft will, that you may have a right judg- 
 ment in all things and evermore rejoice in his 
 holy comfort. 
 
 I am, Dear Madam, 
 
 Your affe&ionate fervant, 
 
 JOHN WESLEY.” 
 
 Wednefday 28. I rode to Mountmelick, and 
 for the fake of fome tender perfons, preached in 
 the new houfe. It was a foletnn time ; in conf'e- 
 quence of which it was pretty well filled in the 
 morning. A ferious awe fpread over the whole 
 congregation : but more remarkably the next 
 evening, while I was opening and applying the 
 Itory of Dives and Lazarus. Friday 30, I rode 
 over to Montrath, a wild place as molt in Ireland, 
 and preached in the (hell of a new houfe to many 
 more than it would contain. All were quiet and 
 attentive. In the middle of the fermon a young 
 woman who was a /inner, endeavoured for a 
 while to hide her tears, by creeping behind ano- 
 ther, till in a few minutes her ftrength failed, and 
 
 ffie 
 
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 frte funk down to the ground, I was forry they 
 carried her away ; otherwife I think fbe would 
 have foon lifted up her head with joy. 
 
 In the evening we had a iove-fealt at Mount- 
 melick, and great was our rejoicing in the Lord. 
 Many were filled with confolation, trailing he 
 would foon make an end of /in, and bring in eve r- 
 lajling righteoufnefs. 
 
 Saturday, July 1 . I Found a far different face of 
 things at Portarlington. Thefociety had once an 
 hundred and thirty members : (an hundred and 
 four I joined in three days.) It had now no more 
 than twenty four ; and fome of thefe had only a 
 name to live. In the evening I applied particularly 
 to the backfliders. But almofl: as foon as I began, 
 alage company of quality (as they called them) 
 came. and embarralfed me not a little, I knew 
 this was heathen Greek to them. But I could not 
 then change my fubjeft. However I diluted my 
 difcourfe as much as I could, that it might not be 
 quite too ftrong for their digeltion. 
 
 Sun. 2 . I read Mrs. Row’s “ devout exercifes 
 of the heart”. It is far fuperior to any thing of 
 her’s which I ever read, in flile as well as in 
 fenfe. Her experience is plain, found and fcrip- 
 tural, no way whimfical or myftical. And her 
 language, is clear, firong and fimple without any 
 of that affeffted floridnefs ; which offends all who 
 have a tolerable ear, or any judgment in good 
 writing. 
 
 At nine we had a ferious congregation, to 
 ^ whom 
 
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 whom I could fpeak of the deep things of God. 
 And the new houfe held them tolerably well : 
 but in the evening it was far too fmall. Sol flood 
 in a little ground adjoining to the houfe. Many 
 tender ones fat within, but the bulk of the congre- 
 gation flood in the meadow, and the gardens on 
 each fide. I have not feen in all the world a peo- 
 ple fo eafy to be convinced or perfwaded as the 
 Irifh. What pity that thefe excellent propenfi- 
 ties fhould not always be applied to the mofl ex- 
 cellent purpofes ! 
 
 Monday 3. I rode to Coolylough (where was 
 the quarterly meeting) and preached at eleven : 
 and in the evening. While we were finging, I 
 was furprized to fee the horfes from all parts of 
 the gound gathering about us. Is it true then 
 that horfes, as well as lions and tigers, have an 
 ear for mufic P 
 
 Wednef. 3. I went on to Tyrrelfpafs. Thurf- 
 day 6. at eleven I preached in the Court-houfe 
 at Molinger, to a very genteel, and yet ferious 
 audience. In the evening I preached at Tyrrelf- 
 pafs again ; and on Friday 7. at Edinaerry. Here 
 I received from Jofeph Fry, a particular account 
 of his late wife, an Ifraelite indeed. Hefaid “ She 
 “ was a drift attendant on all the means of grace, 
 and a fincere lover of the people of God. She had 
 a remarkably good underflanding, and much 
 knowledge of the things of God. Though fhe was 
 of an exceeding bafhful temper, yet fhe was va- 
 -liant for the truth ; not fparing to fpeak very 
 
 plain 
 
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 plain in defence of it, before perfons ofa'l con- 
 ditions. Two years ago {he began to lofe her 
 health, and grew worfe and worfe till September 
 29th. On that day fhe was very refilefs. Obferv- 
 ingher to have an unufual colour, I judged, fhe 
 could not continue long. She was fenhble of it, 
 and faid, ‘ Do not go from me ; for my time is 
 fhort. O ! it is an hard thing to die !’ After a 
 while (he faid, Dear Jefus, fhall it be fo with me 
 as with the wicked ?’ 1 was deeply affe&ed at fee- 
 ing her in luch a Hate : yet fomenting told me, 
 ail will be well. I exhorted her with all my might 
 to lean on Jefus : and found myfelf unfually bleft 
 in fo doing. But Hill {he did not feem to re- 
 ceive it, till I obferved her jaw was fallen. I was 
 then concerned more than ever, left fhe fhould 
 die without hope. I fpoke with more vehemence, 
 while lhe lay fpeechlefs, with her eyes up to 
 heaven. But on a fudden, flte got her lips toge- 
 ther again, and faid with a loud voice, ‘ Now, my 
 love, I experince what you have faid. After aft, 
 my Jefus is mine. The devil is conquered : there, 
 there', ou may fee him going with {hame.’ She 
 then praifed God fo loud, that one might hear 
 her in the ftreet ; and added. ‘ Fine fport, my 
 dear Joe, the devil is cait.’ After rejoicing in God 
 fome time, {he clofed her eyes : but in a little 
 while lhe faid, ‘ O was it not very pretty 
 when the wife virgins went otu in white, to meet 
 their Lord ? Yet what would their robes have 
 
 fignified, 
 
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 fignified, without his righteoufnefs ?’ — And 
 died.” 
 
 The next day I went on to Dublin, and found 
 all things as quiet as I left them. Wednefday 12. 
 I r<>de through a lovely country to Ballymore, in 
 the county of Wexford. Near twenty years ago, 
 ail tb ; rouniry was moved by the preaching of 
 James Mo .ns, Thoufands flocked to hear: but 
 one falfe itep of his quite fcattered them again. 
 The houfe would not near contain the people : 
 fo I flood abroad, in a fair mild evening. And 
 once more God has given them a loud call, to 
 turn unto him, that they may fave their fouls 
 alive. 
 
 Thurfday 13. I rode on to Innifcorthy, and 
 preached on, Is there no balm in Gilead ? To day 
 I faw one of the mofl lively and fenfxbie children 
 that I have met wiih in the kingdom. What a 
 miracle will it be, if flie fnves her foul ! If general 
 admiration does not dePrroy her ! 
 
 Hence I rode to Bunklcdy, a little, ugly, fcat- 
 tered town : but delightfully fuuated. I did 
 not find 1 hat five perfons in the town would come 
 a bow-fhot to hear. So I ordered a table to be fet 
 in the flreet, and a few (lowly crept together. 
 They were as quiet and feemed as much aflfedled 
 as thdtrees. Thence I rode on to Carlow. The 
 under-fheriff had promifed the ufe of the town- 
 hall. But the high fheriff coming to town, would 
 not fuffer it. I thank him : for by this means I 
 was driven to the Barrack-field, where were twice 
 
 as 
 
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 as many as the hall could have contained : over 
 and above many of the poor Papifls who durfl 
 not have come into it. Afterwards I met the little 
 fociety. I ufed to wonder they did not increafe. 
 Now I fhould wonder if they did : fo exquifitely 
 bitter are the chief of them againfVthe church. 
 
 I folemnly warned them againft this evil : and 
 fome of them had ears to hear. 
 
 Friday 14. At noon I preached in Baltinglafs. 
 to an handful of ferious people : and in the even- 
 ing, at Donard, to a much more numerous, but 
 not more ferious congregation. I could not but ob- 
 serve one pretty kind of woman, with a child in 
 her arms. She flood awhile : then walked to and 
 fro : then flood : then walked again ; and appear- 
 ed as perfectly unconcerned, as fome'pretty calves, 
 which flood behind her. Saturday 15. I croff- 
 ed the country to my old pupil, Mr. Morgans, 
 and in the afternoon returned to Dublin. 
 
 All the following week we had a remarkable 
 bleffing both at the morning and evening fer- 
 vice. On Wednefday and Thurfday we had our 
 little conference, at which moll of the preachers 
 in the kingdom were prefent. W e agreed to fet 
 apart Friday the 21ft for a day of falling and pray- 
 er. At every meeting, particularly the laft, our 
 Lord refrefhed us in an uncommon manner. 
 About ten I was a little tired : but before it 
 flruck twelve, my wearinefs was all gone. It 
 feemed to be the fame with all the congregation, 
 and prayer was fwallowed up in praife. 
 
 Sunday 
 
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 Sunday 23. At nine I preached in the Royal 
 fquare at the Barracks, on The dead , [mall and 
 great j landing before God. An huge multitude 
 foon gathered together and liftenedwith deep at- 
 tention. Many of the foldiers were among them. 
 By what but field-preaching could we have 
 reached thefe poor fouls F 
 
 Monday 24. After preaching in the evening, I 
 went on board the pacquet, and the next after- 
 noon, landed at Holyhead. We reached Chefter 
 on Thurfday morning. Here I finifhed Dr. War- 
 ner’s hifiory of the Irilh rebellion. I never faw 
 before, fo impartial an account of the tranfaftions 
 of thofe times. He really feems to be of no fide, 
 but to fpeak the naked truth of all, according to 
 the bed light he could procure. 
 
 Friday 28. I rode to Manchelter. As we were 
 pretty well tired, our friends there infilled on my 
 going on in a chaife. So in the morning, Satur. 
 29, we fet out. When we were on the brow of 
 the hill above Rippondale, fuddenly the faddle- 
 horfe fell, with the driver under him, and both 
 lay without motion. The lhaft-horfe then boggl- 
 ed and turned Ihort, toward the edge ofthe pre- 
 cipice. But prefently the driver and horfe rofe up 
 unhurt, and we went on fafe to Leeds. 
 
 Sunday 30. Mr. Crook being out of order, I 
 read players and preached in Hunflet church, 
 both morning and afternoon. At five I preached 
 at Leeds, and on Monday 31, prepared all things 
 for the enfuing conlerence. Tuefday, Auguft 1. 
 Vol. XXXII. M It 
 
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 It began, and a more loving one we never had. 
 On Thurfday I mentioned the cafe of our breth- 
 ren at New York, who had built the firll Me- 
 thodilfpreaching-houfe in America, and were in 
 great want of money, but much more of preach- 
 ers. Two of our preachers, Richard Boardman, 
 andjofeph Pillmoor, willingly offered themfelves 
 for the fervice : by whom we determined to fend 
 them fifty pounds, as a token of our brotherly love. 
 
 Saturday 5. In the evening I preached at Brad 
 ford to an extremely crowded audience. The 
 heat was hardly fupportable. Such a day I had 
 feldom, if ever, known in England. It was nearly 
 as hot at four in the morning, Sunday 6. But the 
 rain began before five, and in three or four hours 
 quite cooled the air. At One we had, the ufual 
 congregation on the fide ol Birftal-hill. But it was 
 nearly doubled at Leeds in the evening. Mon- 
 day 7. I returned to Manchefler ; and on Tuef- 
 day 8. Went on to Shrew {bury. 1 preached at 
 five ; and foon after, receiving an invitation 
 from Mr.Powis, at Berwick. I went over direilly, 
 gave a fhort exhortation, and returned to Sa'op. 
 
 Wednefday 9. We reached Welchpcol before 
 nine, where notice had been given of my preach- 
 ing, the bailiffbaving granted the ufe of theTown- 
 hall. But he had now changed his mind. So 
 rode on to New Town, and at one we went to 
 the market-houfe. But in a few minutes a poor 
 wretch exceeding drunk, came in curbing and 
 blafpheming, and linking all that Hood in his way. 
 
 His 
 
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 His flick was foon taken from him : but the noife 
 increafing, I removed to the Brynn, and 
 quietly flnifhed my difcourfe. 
 
 At fix in the evening I preached at the Tuffln, 
 the next morning, at Lanidlos, and in the even- 
 ing, at the Abbey. Friday ti. I reached Car- 
 marthen ; The rain continuing, Mr. Peter Wil- 
 liams offered me his preaching-houfe, in which 
 I inforced, God forbid that I fwuld glory, Jave in 
 the cr of s of our ord Jfefus Chrijl. Saturday 12. I 
 preached at Haverford-Weft, Sunday 13. 1 went 
 to St. Daniel’s and after reading prayers, preach- 
 ed on thofe words in the fecond lefibn, What 
 God hath tlcanfd, that call not thou common. The 
 bitrots of all fides feemed afhamed before God, 
 and I truft will not foon forget this day. In the 
 afternoon I real prayers and preached again. I 
 then met the fociety in Pembroke. Once more 
 their little jars are laid afleep : God grant they 
 may rife no more. 
 
 Monday 14. I preached in the town-hall, ' to 
 almofl all the gentry in Pembroke. And I think 
 whatever they had before, they had then aclear 
 call from God. Tuefday 15. In' the evening 
 altho’ the wind was high, yet the .la genefs of the 
 congregation obliged me to ffand on the outfide 
 of the houfe at Haverford-Weft. Wednefday 16I 
 examined the members of the fociety, now the 
 moft lively one in Wales. Many of them are re- 
 joicing in the love of God : and many groaning 
 for full redemption. 
 
 M 2 
 
 To-day 
 
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 To-day I gave a fecond reading to that lively 
 book, Mr. Newton’s account of his own expe- 
 rience. There is fomething very extraordinary 
 therein : but one may account for it without a jot 
 of predeflination. I doubt not but his (as well as 
 Col. Gardiner’s converfionj was an anfwer to his 
 mother’s prayers. 
 
 Thurfday 17. At twelve I preached in the Caf- 
 tle at Carmarthen, in the evening at Lanelly. 
 The behaviour of Sir Thomas’s fervants here 
 (four or five of whom belong to the fociety has 
 removed all prejudice from him, as well as from 
 mod of the town. Indeed they are a pattern to 
 all of their rank, truly adorning the dctlrine of God 
 our Saviour. 
 
 Friday 18. I preached at eleven in Oxwych, 
 and thence haftened to Swanfey, where an effec- 
 tual door is opened once more. The rain drove 
 us into the room, which was hot as an oven, be- 
 ing much crowded both within and without. Sa- 
 turday 19. About eight, I preached at Neath ; 
 about three, in the church ai Bridge-End, (where 
 the rain doubled the congregation, by flopping 
 the harvefl-work) And at feven in the affembly 
 room at Cowbridge, on Lord , Are there few that be 
 Laved? I.was enabled to make a clofe and pointed 
 application : I believe, not without effect. 
 
 Sunday 20. I preached there again at eight, 
 to a congregation who feemed to feel what was 
 fpoken. At eleven the vicar read prayers, and I 
 preached on thofe words in the leffon, Ga/ho 
 
 cared 
 
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 cared for none of tkefe things. Mofl of the hear- 
 ers feemed more awake than I expected, and a 
 few appeared to be affefted. In the evening I took 
 my old Hand, on the fteps of the Caftle at Car- 
 diff. Abundance of people were gathered toge- 
 ther, it being a fair mild evening : on whom I in- 
 forcedj l Jaw thedeadfmall and greatjiand before 
 God. 
 
 Tuefday 22. Mr. Davies read pravers, and I 
 preached in Carphilly church, and in the even- 
 ing at IJanbraddoach. Wednef. 23. I went on to 
 Trevecka. Here we found a concourfe of people 
 from all parts, come to celebrate the Countefs of 
 Huntingdon’s birth-day, and the anniverfary of 
 her fchool, which was opened on the 24th of Au- 
 gufl laft year. I preached in the evening, to as 
 many as her chapel could well contain, which is 
 extremely neat, or rather elegant as is the dining 
 room, the fchool, and all the houfe. About nine 
 Howel Harris defiled me to give a fhort exhor- 
 tation to his family. I did fo and then went back 
 to my Lady’s, and laid me down in peace. 
 
 Thurfday 24. I adminiftred the Lord’s fupper 
 to the family. At ten the public fe'rvice began. 
 Mr. Fletcher preached an exceeding lively fermon 
 in the court, the chapel being far too fmall. 
 After him Mr, William Williams preached in 
 Welfli, till between one and two o’clock. At 
 two we dined : mean time a large number of 
 people had bafkets of bread and meat carried to 
 them in the court. At three I took my turn 
 M 3 there •, 
 
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 there, then Mr. Fletcher, and about five, thc- 
 congregation was difmiffed. Between feven and 
 eight the love-feaft began, at which I believe 
 many were comforted. In the evening feveral of 
 us retired into the neighbouring wood, which 
 is exceeding pleafantly laid out in walks, one or 
 which leads to a little mount, railed in the midft 
 •f a meadow, that commands a delightful prof- 
 pe£l : this is Howell Harris’s work : who has 
 likewife greatly inlarged and beautified his houfe. 
 So that with the gardens, orchards, walks and 
 pieces of water that furround it, it is a kind of 
 little paradife. 
 
 Friday 2,5. We rode thro’ a lovely country to 
 Chepftow. I had defigned to go flrait on : but 
 yielded to the importunity of our friends, to flay 
 and preach in the evening. Meantime I took a 
 walk thro’ Mr. Morris’s woods. There is fcarce 
 any thing like them in the kingdom. They fiand 
 on the top and down the fide of a deep moun- 
 tain, hanging in a femicircular from over the 
 river. Thro’ thefe woods abundance of ferpen- 
 tine walks are cut, wherein many feats and alcoves 
 are placed ; moft of which command a furpriz- 
 ing profpeft of rocks and fields on the other fide 
 of the river. And mud all thefe be burnt up? 
 What will become of us then, if we fet our hearts 
 upon them ? 
 
 Saturday 26. Refolving not to be too late now 
 as I was la it year I took horfe at four. But being 
 earneilly engaged in coverfation, we miffed our 
 
 way, 
 
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 W3y and came to the paffage juft as the boat was 
 gone. About three in the afternoon, it pafted 
 again : and foon after fix we reached Briftol. 
 
 Sunday 27. After preaching at Kingfwood 
 and Briftol, I rode to Crofs, to leffen the next 
 day’s journey. Monday 28. I rode to Tiverton ; 
 on Tuefday to Lancefton, where I ftronglv ap- 
 plied, Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? And I 
 believe, he anfwered for himfelf, in the hearts of 
 feveral backfiiders. 
 
 Being informed, it was between fixty and fe- 
 venty miles to St. John’s, I fent my horfe a few 
 miles forward to nigbt. JWednefday 30. I pur- 
 pofed taking horfe at four : but the horfe was riot 
 brought from the field. So I borrowed another, 
 and rode on without delay to the houfe where my 
 own waited forme. We badinceflant rain, driv- 
 en upon us by a furious wind. However I reach- 
 ed Bodmin about eight : where at the requeft 
 of one of our friends, I preached to & fmall, feri* 
 ous company in theTownhall. The rain accom- 
 panied us moft of the wav to Truro. I knew not 
 where to call, till a friend met me and mid me, 
 “ Mr. Painter had been very ill.” So I rode di- 
 reftly to his houfe. While I was there, one of 
 Redruth came in, who lent me a refh horfe, with 
 which I reached St. John’s about five o’clock. 
 I preached at fix, and was much comiorted among 
 a loving, earned; people. 
 
 Thursday 31. I rode over to St, Juft, but 
 could not preach abroad, becaufe of the violent 
 M 4 wind. 
 
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 wind. However God fpoke to many hearts, both 
 this evening and in the morning. Sept. 1. I now 
 confidered Dr. Erlkine’s account of faving faith. 
 He afferts (if I comprehend him right) “ it is in 
 general, an alfent to the word of God, in which 
 there is a light, a glory, a brightnefs, which be- 
 lievers, and they only perceive. In particular it is 
 an alfent of the underloading, to the gofpel me- 
 thod of falvation ; in which there is an excel- 
 lency and glory, which only believers fee. A 
 fupernatural conviftion of this is faith.” But if 
 this be his judgment, why does he quarrel with 
 me? For how marveloufly fmall is the differ- 
 ence between us ? Only change the word alfent 
 for convi&ion ; (which certainly better anfwers 
 St. Paul’s word And do we not come 
 
 within an hair’s breadth of each other ? Ido not 
 quarrel with the definition of faith in general, 
 “ Kfuper natural ajfent to the word of God 
 though I think, “A fupernatural convichon of the 
 truths contained in the word of God,” is clearer. 
 I allow too, that the holy fpirit enables us to per- 
 ceive a peculiar light and glory in the word, of 
 God, and particularly in the gofpel-method of 
 falvation. But I doubt, whether faving faith be 
 properly, “ An alfent to this light and glory.” Is 
 it not rather, an alfent (if we retain the word) to 
 the truths which God has revealed ? ’ Or more 
 particularly, a divine convifbon, that God was in 
 Chrijl, reconciling the world unto himfelf ? 
 
 The congregation at St. Ives’ in the evening 
 
 was 
 
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 was the largeft I have feen fince I came to Corn- 
 wall. And it was a folemn affembly. We had 
 another happy opportunity at the meeting of the 
 fociety. Saturday 2. Our quarterly meeting was 
 at Redruth. In the evening I preached to eleven 
 or twelve hundred people. But there was no trifl- 
 er, much lefs mocker among them. They heard, 
 as for eternity. 
 
 Sunday 3, We had a very large congrega- 
 tion, and an ufeful fertnon at church. Between 
 one and two I preached to fome thoufandsin the 
 main-flreet : but to abundantly more at five in 
 our amphitheatre at Gwenap : and they were 
 fo commodioufly placed, row above row, that I 
 believe all could hear. 
 
 Monday 4. About noon I preached in the 
 Lower-ftreet at St. Awflle, to a very numerous 
 and very ferious congregation. But at Medros, 
 where was once the livelieft fociety in Corn- 
 wall, I found but a few and moll of thofe faint 
 and weary. Tuefday 5. I rode on to Plymouth- 
 dock, and preached on, Love is the bond of per- 
 feElnefs. What pity that any thing fhort of this, 
 fhould ufurp the name of religion ! 
 
 Laft week I read over, as I rode, great part of 
 Homer’s Odyffey. I always imagined, it was like 
 Milton’s paradife regained, 
 
 “ The faint effort of an expiring mufe.’* 
 
 M 5 v But 
 
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 Bfithow was I midaken? How far has Homer's 
 latter poem the pre-eminence over the former ? 
 
 It is not indeed without its blemifhes, among 
 which perhaps one might reckon his making 
 Ulyffes fwim nine days and nine nights without 
 fudenance; the incredible manner of his efcape 
 from Polyphemus, (unlefs the goat was as ilrong 
 as an ox :) and the introducing Minerva at every 
 turn, without any dignus vmdice nodus. But his 
 numerous beauties make large amends for thefe. 
 Was ever man fo happv in his defcriptions, fo 
 exaCt and confident in his characters, and fo na- 
 tural in telling a dory ? He likewife continually 
 inferts the fined drokes of morality, (which I can- 
 not find inVirgil) on all occafions recommending 
 the fear of God, with juffice, mercy and truth. 
 In this only he is inconfiflent with himfelf. He 
 makes his hero fa) - , 
 
 “ Wifdom never lies.” And 
 
 “ Him, on whate’er pretence, that lies can tell 
 
 “ My foul abhors him as the gates of hell.” 
 
 Meantime he himfelf, on the flighted pretence, 
 tells deliberately lies over and over: nay', and is 
 highly commended for fo doing, even by the 
 goddefs of wifdom ! 
 
 Wednefday 6. I rode to Collumpton; and on 
 Thurfday reded at Tiverton. Friday 8. I preach- 
 ed 
 
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 ed about nine at Taunton, and then rode on to 
 Bridgwater, where the preaching had been dif- 
 continued for fome years. It was fuppofed there 
 would be much difturbance. But there was none 
 at all. The very gentry (all but two or three 
 young women) behaved with good fenfe and de- 
 cency. 
 
 This afternoon I went to the top of Brent hill : 
 I know not, I ever before faw fuch a profpeft. 
 Weflward, one may fee to the mouth of theBuf- 
 tol channel, and die three other ways, as far as 
 the eye can reach. And mod. of the land which 
 you fee is well cultivated, well wooded, and well 
 watered : fothat the globe of earth, in itsprefent 
 condition can hardly afford a more pleafing 
 fcene. Saturday 9, I returned to Briftol. 
 
 Tuefday 12. I enquired into the ftateofKingf- 
 wood-fchool. The grievance now is the number 
 of children. Inflead of thirty (as I defired) we 
 have near fifty, whereby our mailers are bur- 
 dened. And it is fcarce polfible to keep them in 
 fo exact order, as we might do a fmaller number. 
 However this ffill comes nearer a Chriftian 
 fchool, than any I know in the kingdom. 
 
 Sunday 17. I preached to a ferious congrega- 
 tion, in Prince’s-ftreet, many of whom came 
 from the fiiips on the river, and gaped and flared 
 as if they had never heard a fermon before. In 
 the afternoon I preached near the New-fquare,on, 
 M 6 What 
 
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 WkaL God hath cleanfed , that call not thou common. 
 I was in hopes, this would remove rather than 
 increafe prejudice : but I was much miftaken. 
 One of the hearers foon after told his friend, 
 “ Mr. W. is as dark and blind as ever/’ 
 
 Tuefday 19. Between twelve and one I 
 preached at Frefhford ; and on White’s-hill, near 
 Bradford in the evening. By this means many 
 had an opportunity of hearing, who would not 
 have come to the room. I had defigned to preach 
 there again the next evening: but a gentleman 
 in the town defired me to preach at his door. 
 The beafts of the people were tolerably quiet, 
 till I had nearly finifhed my fermon. They then 
 lifted up their voice, efpecially one, called a gen~ 
 tleman, who had filled his pocket with rotten 
 eggs. But a young man coming unawares, clapt 
 his hands on each fide, and malhed them all at 
 once. In an inflant he was prefume all over; 
 though it was not lo fweet as balfam! 
 
 Friday 22. I faw poor Mrs. at Briflol, on 
 
 the very brink of defpair. I prayed for her in 
 faith, and not many days after, found her fweetly 
 rejoicing in God her Saviour. Thurfday 23. I 
 rode to Pill, and preached in the ftreetfthe only 
 way to dp much good there,) to a more numerous 
 and more attentive congregation than I have 
 feen there for many years. 
 
 1 hurfday, October 5. I had the fatisfaftion to 
 find, that two of our brethren, with whom I had 
 
 taken 
 
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 taken much pains, had at length put an end to 
 their Chancery fait, and clofed their debate by a 
 reference. 
 
 Sunday 8. I permitted all of Mr. Whitefield’s 
 fociety that defired it, to be prefent at our 
 love-feaft. I fuppofe, there were a thou- 
 band of us in all. And we were not fent empty 
 away. 
 
 Monday 9. I preached at Briftol, Pensford, 
 Shepton-Mallet ; and in the evening at Win- 
 caunton. The people here had juft as much 
 feeling as the benches on which they fat. Tuef- 
 day 10. I preached in Shaftefbury at noon ; and 
 in the evening at Salifbury. Here I was as in a 
 new world. The congregation was alive, and 
 much more the fociety. How pleafing would it 
 be to be always with fuch ! But that is not our 
 calling. 
 
 Wednefday 11. I preached in Rumfey at 
 noon: in the evening at Winchefter. Thurfday 
 12. I preached at Fareham about one; and at 
 Portfmouth-common in the evening. Friday 13 . 1 
 very narrowly miffed meeting the great PafcalPao- 
 li. He landed in the dock but a very few minutes 
 after I left the water- fide. Surely he who hath 
 been with him from his youth up, hath not fent 
 him into England for nothing. Lord fhew him 
 . what is thy will concerning him ! And give him 
 a kingdom that cannot be moved ! 
 
 Saturday 14. Setting out at two in the morn- 
 
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 ing, I came to London in the afternoon. Sunday 
 15. My brother and I had fuch a congregation at 
 Spitalfields, as has not been there fince the cove- 
 hant-night. The Foundery was equally crowded 
 in the evening : is God about to work here, 
 as he did fome years ago? If fo, having 
 learnt experience by t]ie things we have fujf'ered , 
 I trult we fhall not quench the fpirit, as we did 
 before. 
 
 Monday 16. 1 began my journey into Oxford- 
 fhire, and in the evening preached at Henley. A 
 great part of the congregation was perfebily void 
 both of'fenfe and modefty. But at this time 
 they were unufually quiet, as I did not take 
 them out of their depth, in opening and apply- 
 ing thofe words, It is appointed unto men once to 
 die, 
 
 Tuefdav 17. We went to Wallingford, a town 
 I never faw before, though I lived fo many years 
 at Oxford. How white are the fields here unto 
 theharveft? The whole town feemed flocking 
 together, rich and poor, in the evening, and re- 
 ceived the word with joy. But who will endure 
 to the end ? Abundance of people came again at 
 five in the morning, and were ready to devour 
 the word. How pleafant it is, to fee the dawn of 
 a work of grace ! But we mufl not lay too much 
 flrefs upon it. Abundance ofblofToms! But when 
 the fun is up, how many of thefe will wither 
 away ! 
 
 Having 
 
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 Having appointed to preach in Oxford at ten, 
 
 I was under fome difficulty. I did not like to 
 preach in the diffenting meeting-houfe : and I 
 did not fee how to avoid it. But the proprietors 
 cut the knot for me, by locking up the doors. 
 So I preached in James Mears’ garden : and to 
 fuch a congregation as I had not had in Oxford 
 fince I preached in St. Mary’s church. 
 
 Thence we went on to Witney, where we 
 have now a large and commodious houfe. It was 
 well filled in the evening: and (whoever elfe did) 
 
 I found it good to be there : efpecially at the 
 meeting of the fociety: the Spirit of glory and 
 of Chrift was among them. 
 
 I had defigned to fpend another day here. 
 But two of our friends, who were come on pur- 
 pofe from Broadmarfton, importuned me much 
 to go thuher. So I fet out with them on Thurf- 
 day, and came to Broadmarfton in the after- 
 noon. The lovely family, and the congregation 
 from all parts, made me full amends for my la- 
 bour. Great was our glorying in the Lord. 
 Many felt the two-edged fword, and many were 
 filled with confolation. 
 
 Friday 20. I had appointed to be in Oxford at 
 eight. So I took horfe at two, and took chaifes 
 from Shipfton, which brought me thither at my 
 time. After fpending an hour quite agreeably 
 with a few young, ferious ftudenls, I fet out for 
 Ipftone, near Stoken-chureh. But I was obliged, 
 
 when 
 
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 when we came to the bye-road, to quit my chaii'e 
 and go as I could, part on horfe-back, part on 
 foot. The congregation had waited for me fome 
 time. So I began immediately, on, Fear God , 
 and keep his commandments : for this is the whole 
 of man. In the evening I preached to a lively 
 congregation at High-Wycombe, and on Satur- 
 day reached London. 
 
 Monday 23. I rode to Towcefter, and preach- 
 ed to an heavy, unawakened people, on what 
 they did not feemat all to think of, namely, that 
 they were to die. I believe it fuited them : they 
 appeared to be more affe£led than with any dif- 
 courfe I had ever preached. Tuefday 24. I 
 preached at Alfton, in a large malt-room, where 
 one fide of my head was very warm, through the 
 crowd of people, the other very cold, having an 
 open window to my ear. Between fix and feven 
 I preached at Northampton, and it was an awful 
 feafon. 
 
 This evening there was fuch an Aurora 
 Borealis, as I never faw before : the colours, both 
 the white, the flame-colour, and the fcarlet, were 
 fo exceeding flrong and beautiful. But they were 
 awful too : fo that abundance of people were 
 friejited into many good refolutions. 
 
 Wednefday 2,5. At ten, I was forced to preach 
 abroad at Brighton, by reafon of the great con- 
 courfe of people : and at Haddon, about one. I 
 believe at both places, God applied his word to 
 their hearts. Thurfday 26, About nine I preached 
 
 at 
 
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 at Harpole, to a thirfly multitude: atone, to 
 near the fame number at Weedon ; in the even- 
 ing at Wittlebury. Friday 27, about noon, we 
 had a ferious congregation at Cranfield, and at 
 Bedford in the evening, Saturday 28. 1 preached 
 about one at Hertford, and at Snowfields in the 
 evening : and after preaching three times a day 
 for three days, and four times a day for two m r e, 
 I found no more hoarfenefs or wearinefs man 
 when I fet out from London. 
 
 Monday go. I fet out with a little company of 
 our friends, and the next day came to Nor- 
 wich. At fix I preached in the fhell of the 
 new houfe, crowded enough both within and 
 without. 
 
 Thurfday, November 2. We went to Yar- 
 mouth, a cold, dead, uncomfortable place. Fri- 
 day 3. I laboured to gather up the fragments of 
 the poor fociety, fhatrered to pieces by Prefby- 
 terians, Anabaptiffs, and difputers of all kinds: 
 efpecially by one unhappy man, who had 
 arifen among ourfelves. In the evening I 
 flrongly exhorted them, to r epent and do the firji 
 works. 
 
 Saturday 4. We returned to Norwich. In com- 
 ing to Yarmouth, I had called upon a young wo- 
 man, alive to God, but exceeding ill. She died 
 before I came back. This afternoon I was defired 
 to bury her. I took the opportunity of preach- 
 ing at five in the burying-ground, to a multi- 
 tude of people, who were all attention, as though 
 
 they 
 
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 they had already feen the dead Jlanding before 
 God. 
 
 Monday 6. And the follow ing days, I vifited as 
 many of the people, fick and well, as 1 poffibly 
 could. And on Friday 9, leaving them more 
 united than they had been for many years, I took 
 coach again, ancl the next afternoon came to 
 London. 
 
 In the coach going and coming, I read feveral 
 volumes of Mr. Guthrie's ingenious hi dory of 
 Scotland, I fuppofe, as impartial an one as any 
 to be found, and as much to be depended upon.' 
 I never read any writer before, who gave me fo 
 much light into the real charafler of that odd 
 mixture, King James the firft : nor into that of 
 Mary Queen of Scots, fo totally mifreprefenled 
 by Buchanan, Queen Elizabeth’s penfioner, and 
 her other hireling writers : and not much lefs,by 
 Dr. Robertfon. Them he effectually expofes, 
 fhewing ho\y grofly they contradiH matter of fact, 
 and one another. He likewife points out the 
 many and great miltakes of Dr. R. fuch as feem 
 to imply either great inattention or great partia- 
 lity. Upon the whole, that much injured Queen 
 appears to have been far the grealeft woman of 
 that age, exquifiteiv beautiful in her perfon, of a 
 fine addrefs, of a deep, unaffefled piety, and of 
 a ftronger underftanding even in youth, than 
 Queen Elizabeth had at three-fcore. And pro- 
 bably the defpair wherein Queen Elizabeth died, 
 
 was 
 
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 was owing to her death rather than that of Lord 
 Eflex. 
 
 Friday 17. I preached at a chapel near St. 
 John-ftreet, built on the very fpot of ground, 
 whereon many hundred years ago Pardon church 
 flood. In this and the following week 1 vifited 
 the fociety in London, containing now fcarce 
 nineteen hundred members. So has God 
 cut us floor t knee the wound received by a fake 
 friend, from which we are now (lowly reco- 
 vering. 
 
 Saturday 25. I went down to Mr. Perronet’s 
 juft recovering from a long illnefs. In the even- 
 ing I preached :n the houfe, and at- (even in the 
 morning. On Sunday 26. Mr. P. defigned to read 
 prayers at ten but we thought it not fafe for him 
 to go out. So I read prayers, and then applied, 
 What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to 
 do mJily, to love mercy, oncl to walk humbly with 
 thy God? Many who had conftantly appealed to 
 this text, found themfelves fhort in every parti- 
 cular. 
 
 I read prayers in the afternoon, having been 
 informed, that it was not ufual to preach. But 
 obferving a numerous congregation, quite un- 
 willing to go away, I went into the pulpit, and 
 (hewed them the nature and the pleafantnefs of 
 true religion. At five I preached in the room : 
 I truft our Lord has touched many hearts this 
 day. 
 
 Thurfday 
 
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 Thurfday go. I preached at Wandfworth. For 
 many years the people here were the rnoft dead, 
 but are now the moll alive of any about London. 
 Friday, December the lft, I preach d at Barnet, 
 which was laft year what Wandfworth is now. 
 Monday 4. I went to Chatham: Mr.Whitefield’s 
 people (fo called) refufing me the ufe of their 
 room, I preached in the barracks to a liifening 
 multitude, and our hearts were fweetly enlarged 
 and knit together. One of their fociety, gtieved 
 at the bigotry of his brethren, invited me to 
 preach in hishoufe in the morning ; which I did 
 (the barracks not being open) to as many as it 
 could well contain. Tuefday 5. I went to Sbeer- 
 nefs, and preached in the old play-houfe, filled 
 from end to end. So it was the next night. Our 
 own room contained us in the mornings. I was 
 much comforted among the poor people, which 
 in the midft of difputers, keep ftrait on following 
 after peace and holinefs. 
 
 Thurfday 7. I returned to Chatham, and 
 the next day to London, leaving an earned peo- 
 ple at peace with each other, and with all the 
 world. 
 
 Monday 11. Riding an uneafy horfe, I was 
 much tired before I reached Slaplehurft. But the 
 ferious, earned congregation foon made me for- 
 get my wearinefs, and I was not a little- helped by 
 the fpirit of Mr. C. breathing nothing but faith and 
 love. I was again heartily tired, when I came to 
 
 Mr. 
 
[ ] 
 
 Mr. Holman near Rye. Judging moft of the con- 
 gregation here to be unawakened, I preached on 
 the flory of Dives and Lazarus. God gave me 
 to fpeak ftrong words, fo that I trull fome were 
 pricked to the heart. Wednefday 13 . 1 preached 
 at Ewhuft, (it being the quarterly meeting) both 
 at noon and in the evening. Thurfday 14. We 
 rode through heavy rain to New-bounds, where 
 Mr. I’Anfon and his family gladly received us : 
 and I never faw the houfe fo filled before, as 
 it was in the evening. Friday 17. I preached at 
 Seven -Oaks, and on Saturday returned to Lon- 
 don. 
 
 Being defirous to finifh my winter journies 
 before Chriflmas : on Monday 18. I fet out for 
 Canterbury. Friday 22. I preached at Sitten- 
 burn and Chatham, and on Saturday came to 
 London. 
 
 Monday, being Chriflmas- day, we had fuch a 
 congregation at four, as I have not feen for many 
 years. And from morning to evening we had 
 abundant proof, that God is vifiting and re- 
 deeming his people. 
 
 Tuefday 16. I read the letters from our 
 preachers in America, informing us that God had 
 begun a glorious work there : that both in New- 
 York and Philadelphia multitudes flock to hear, 
 and behave with the deepeft ferioufnefs : and 
 that the fociety in each place already contains 
 above an hundred members. 
 
 Friday 
 
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 Friday 29, we obferved as a day of failing and 
 prayer, partly on account of the confufed date 
 of public affairs, partly' as preparatory to the 
 folemn engagement, which we were about to re- 
 new. 
 
 Monday, January the iff, 1770, about eigh- 
 teen hundred of us met togeiher ; it was a mod 
 folemn feafon. As we did openly avouch the 
 Lord to be our God, fo did he avouch us to be his 
 
 Wednefday 17. In a little journey, which I 
 took into Bedfordfhire, I finilhed Dr. Burnet’s 
 Theory of the Earth. He is doubtlefs one of the 
 full-rate writers, both as to fenfe and Bile ; his 
 language is remarkably clear, unaffected, ner- 
 vous, and elegant. And as to his theory, none 
 can deny that it is ingenious, and confident with 
 itfelf. And it is highly probable, 1. That the 
 earth arofe out of the chaos in fome fuch manner 
 as he deferibes: 2. That the antediluvian earth 
 was without high or abrupt mountains, and with- 
 out fea, being one uniform crufi, inclofing the 
 great abyfs. 3. That the flood was caufed by the 
 breaking ol this crull, and its finking into the 
 abyfs of waters : and 4. 1 hat the prefent date of 
 the earth, both internal and external, fhews it to 
 be the ruins of the former earth. This is the fub- 
 dance of his two former books, and thus far I can 
 go with him. 
 
 I have no objection to the fubdance of his 
 
 third 
 
[ * 8 ; ] 
 
 third book upon the general conflagration, hut 
 think it is one of the nobleft tradls, which is ex- 
 tant in our language. And I do not much objedf 
 to the fourth, concerning the new heavens, and 
 the new earth. The fubliance of it is highly pro- 
 bable. 
 
 Tuefday go. One informed me, that Mrs. 
 Kitely at Lambeth, not expedited to live many 
 hours, had a great deflre to fee me before 
 flie died. I went as quick as poflible: but when 
 I came, fhe feemed fenfelefs, as well as fpeech- 
 lefs. I regarded not this, but fpoke to her imme- 
 diately ; and immediately both her under- 
 flanding and her fpeech returned, to teflify 
 an hope full of immortality. Having had her 
 deflre, fhe fell afleep, two days before her huf- 
 band ; 
 
 “ A perfedl pattern of true woman-hood 1” 
 
 A good wife, a good parent, a good miflrefs. 
 And her works Jhall praife her in the gates. How 
 fuitable was her death to her life! After many 
 years fpent in doing good, fhe redeemed a poor, 
 friendlefs youth out of piifon, took the goal-dif- 
 temper and died. 
 
 Saturday, February g, and at my leifure mo- 
 ments on feveral of the following days, I read 
 with much expedition, a celebrated book, Rouf- 
 feau upon Education. But how was 1 difap- 
 
 pointed ! 
 
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 pointed ! Sure a more confummate coxcomb 
 never faw the fun ! How amazing full of him- 
 felf? Whatever he fpeaks, he pronounces as an 
 oracle. Rut many of his oracles are as palpably 
 falfe, as that “ young children never love old 
 people.” No ! Do they never love grandfathers 
 and grandmothers P Frequently more than they 
 do their own parents. Indeed they love all 
 that love them, and that with more warmth 
 and fincerity, than when they come to riper 
 years. 
 
 But I objefito his temper, more than to his 
 judgment ; he is a mere mifanthrope, a cynic all 
 over. So indeed is his brother infidel, Voltaire : 
 And well nigh as great a coxcomb. But he 
 hides both his doggednefs and vanity a little 
 better : whereas here it flares us in the face con- 
 tinuallv. 
 
 J 
 
 As to his book, it is whimfical to the lafl de- 
 gree, grounded neither upon reafon, nor expe- 
 rience. To cite particular paffages would be end- 
 lefs : but any one may obfetve concerning the 
 whole, the advices which are good, are trite and 
 common, only difguifed under new expreffions. 
 And thofe which are new, which are really his 
 own, are lighter than vanity itfelf. Such difco- 
 veries I always expefl from thofe, who are too 
 wife to believe their bibles. 
 
 Thurfday 8. I went to Wandfworth. What a 
 proof have we here, that God’s thoughts are not 
 as our thoughts? Everyone thought no good 
 
 could 
 
[ ■* 9 ] 
 
 •ould be done here : we had tried for abov# 
 twenty years. Very few would even give us the 
 hearing; and the few that did, feeraed little the 
 better for it. But all on a fudden, crowds flock 
 to hear : many are cut to the heart : many filled 
 with peace and joy in believing : many long for 
 the whole image of God. In the evening, though 
 it was a fharp froff, the room was as hot as a 
 flove. And they drank in the word with all gree- 
 dinefs, as alfo at five in'the morning, while I ap- 
 plied, Jefus put forth his hand and touched him , 
 faying, I will : Be thou clean ! 
 
 Tuefday 13. I read with all the attention I was 
 mafler of, Mr. Hutchinfon’s Life, and Mr. Spear- 
 man’s Index to his works. And I was more con- 
 vinced than ever, 1. That he had not the leaft 
 conception, much lefs experience, of inward re- 
 ligion : 2. That an ingenious man may prove 
 juft what he pleafes, by well-devifed fcriptural 
 etymologies : efpecially if he be in the fafhion, 
 if he affe&s to read the Hebrew without vowels: 
 and 3. That his whole hypothefis, philofophical 
 and theological, is unlupported by any folid 
 proof. 
 
 Friday 23. I was defired to hear Mr. Leoni 
 fing, at the Jewifh fynagogue. I never before faw 
 a Jewifh congregation behave fo decently. In- 
 deed the place itfelf is fo folemn, that it might 
 ftrike an awe upon thofe who have any thought 
 of God. 
 
 Wednefday 28. 1 fat down to read and feri- 
 Vol, XXXII. N oufly 
 
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 oufly confider fome of the writings of Baron 
 Swedenborg. 1 began, with huge prejudice in 
 his favour, knowing him to be a pious man, one 
 of a drong underdanding, of much learning, and 
 one who throughly believed himfelf. But I could 
 not hold out long. Any one of his vifions puts 
 his real character out of doubt. He is one of the 
 mod ingenious, lively, entertaining madmen, 
 that ever fet pen to paper. But his waking 
 dreams are fo wild, fo far remote both from 
 feripture and common fenle, that one might as 
 eafily fwallow the dories of d om Thumb, orjack 
 the Giant-killer. 
 
 Monday, March j. 1 came to Newbury, 
 where I had been much importuned to preach. 
 But where ? The diiTenters would not permit me 
 to preach in their meeiing-houfe. Somethenwere 
 defirous to hire the old play-houfe : but the good 
 mayor would not fuffer it to be fo profaned ! So 
 1 made ufe of a work-fhop, a large, commodious 
 place. But it would by no means contain the 
 congregation. All that could hear, behaved well; 
 and I was in hopes God would have a people in 
 this place alfo. The next evening I preached at 
 Bridol, and fpent the red of the week there. 
 Monday 12. I went to Stroud, where the houfe 
 was filled as ufual. Tuefday 13. 1 went byPainf- 
 wick and Glocederto Tewkefbttry. Wednefday 
 14. 1 preached in the new room, which is jud 
 finifhed at Upton, and thence rode on to Wor- 
 ceder, where I preached in a large, old, awkward 
 
 place. 
 
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 place, to a crouded and much affe&ed audience. 
 Afterwards I met the fociety of about an hun- 
 dred members, all of one heart and one mind, 
 fo lovingly and clofely united together, that I 
 have fcarce feen the like in the kingdom. 
 
 Thurfday 15. I met the feleft fociety. How 
 fwiftly has God deepened his work in thefe ! I 
 have feen very few either in Briftol or London, 
 who are more clear in their experience. The 
 account all whom I had time to examine gave, was 
 fcriptural and rational. And fuppofe they fpoke 
 true,' they are witneffes of the perfection which 
 I preach. Yet that they may fall therefrom, I 
 know ; but that they mu/}, I utterly deny. 
 
 After preaching. at Evefham about noon, we 
 rode through a furious (hower of fnow, driven 
 full in our faces to Broadmarflon. The very un- 
 common feverity of the weather, fo mew hat lef- 
 fened the congregation in the evening. All who 
 were there feemed prepared for that awful fub- 
 je£t, dfazo the dead, frnall and great, Jland before 
 God . 
 
 Saturday 17. We rode, in another bitter day, 
 with the wind and fnow juft in our face, to Bir- 
 mingham. In the evening the people were wedg- 
 ed in as clofe as potTible : yet many were ob- 
 liged to go away. We had juft the fame congre- 
 gation in the morning, Sunday 18. At half hour 
 after one I was to preach at Bromwich-heath ; 
 but the houfe would fcarce contain a fourth .part 
 N 2 of 
 
[ 2 9 2 ] 
 
 of the congregation. So I made a virtue of necef- 
 fity, and preached in a ground, where there was 
 room for all that came. And I believe God kin- 
 dled a fire in many frozen hearts. 
 
 In the evening I preached in the houfe at 
 Wednefbury a funeral fermon for Elizabeth 
 Longmore, I think, the fir/t witnefs of Chriftian 
 Perfe£iion, whom God raifed up in thefe parts. 
 I gave fome account of her experience many 
 years ago. From that time her whole life was 
 anfwerable to her profefiion, every way holy and 
 unblameable. Frequently fhe had not bread to 
 eat ; but that did not hinder her rejoicing ever- 
 more. She had clofe trials from her poor, apoftate 
 liufband, in the mid/t of fharp pain and pining 
 ficknefs. But /he was fuperior to all, /fill fee- 
 ing her Father’s hand, and in every thing 
 giving thanks. Her death was fuitable to 
 her life. 
 
 “ No cloud cou’d arife 
 “ To darken the /kies, 
 
 Or hide for a moment her Lord from her eyes.” 
 
 All was noon day. She praifed God with every 
 breath till he took her to himfelf. 
 
 Monday 19. 1 rode to Craidly. Here alfo the 
 multitude of people obliged me to /land abroad, 
 although the north wind whi/lled round my head. 
 About one I took the field again at Stourbridge. 
 
 Many 
 
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 Many of the hearers were wild as colts untamed. 
 But the bridle was in their mouths. At fix I be- 
 gan at Dudley. The air was as cold as I had 
 almolt ever felt. But I trull God warmed many 
 hearts. 
 
 Wednefday 21. I took my leave of Wednef- 
 buryatfive; preached about ten at Billltone; 
 about one at Bilbrook, and about five in the 
 evening at Wolverhampton. Many here weie 
 wild and ftupid enough ; however the greater 
 part were deeply attentive. 
 
 I now procured an account of two remarkable 
 children, which, I think, ought not to be buried 
 in oblivion. 
 
 “ About three weeks before Chriftmas, 1768, 
 William Cooper, at Walfal in Staffordlhire, 
 then nine years old, was convinced of fin, and 
 would frequently fay, he Ihould go to hell, and 
 the devil would fetch him. Sometimes he cried 
 out, “ I hate him.” Being alked, “ whom ?” He 
 anfwered with great vehemence, “God.” This 
 terrified his mother, who not knowing what 
 was the matter with the child, ftrove to keep it 
 fecret. 
 
 “ But in about a fortnight, it pleafed God to 
 reveal to him his pardoning love. His mouth was 
 then filled with praife, declaring to all what God 
 had done for his foul. 
 
 “ A few days after Billy was awakened, God 
 was pleafed to convince his filter Lucy, then ele- 
 N 3 ven 
 
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 ven years old. He foon put a for.g of praife into 
 her mouth alfo, fo that they mightily rejoiced to- 
 gether in God their Saviour. At the fame time 
 they w ere bo, h heavily affh£led in theii bodies. 
 But fo much the more was the power of God 
 manifested, caufing them to continue in the 
 triumph of faith, throughout their fharpeft 
 pains. 
 
 “ On December 30, one of their fillers com- 
 ing to fee them, Billy' told her, he had been very 
 ill ; but, faid he, “ I -do not mean in my body, 
 but in my foul : I felt my fins fo heavy, that I 
 though! I fhould go to hell, and I law the devil 
 ready to drag me away. Nay, for a week, I 
 thought myfelf juft in the flames of hell. The 
 fins that troubled me fn£>ft were, telling lies and 
 quarrelling with mv fifter. I faw r , if God did not 
 forgive me I was loft. And I knew, quarreling 
 was as great a fin in Lucy as in me, and if five 
 did not get a pardon, and feel the love of Jefus, 
 fire could not go to heaven.” 
 
 “ Lucy faid, “ When I heard Mr. A. deferibe 
 two forts of people, one fort wafhed in the blood 
 of Chrift, and the other not, I found I was not, 
 and therefore if I died fo, mufl go to hell.” Be- 
 ing afked what fin lay moft on her confcience, 
 file replied, “ Taking his name in vain, by re- 
 peating my prayers, when I did not think of 
 God.” 
 
 When Billy was confeffing, that he had loved 
 
 money, 
 
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 money, Lucy Laid, “ And fo did I ; and was an- 
 gry if I had not as much as Billy, I loved mo- 
 ney more than God, and he might jultly have 
 fent me to hell for it.” 
 
 “When Billy was afked, ‘ How he knew his 
 fins were forgiven ?’ He anfwered, “ Chrift told 
 me fo. I had a great ftruggle in my heart with 
 the devil and fin, till it pleafed Jefus to come 
 into my foul. I now feel his love in my 
 heart, and he tells me, he has forgiven my 
 fins.” 
 
 “Being afked, How he did? He replied, 
 
 “ Happy in Jefus: Jefus is fweet to my foul.” 
 
 ‘ Do vou chufe to live or die ?’ He anfwered, 
 “ Neither. I hope, if I live I fiiall praife 
 God : and if I die, I am fure I fhall go to him. 
 For he has forgiven my fins, and given me his 
 love.” 
 
 “ One afked Lucy, how long fhe had been in 
 the triumph of faith ? She anfwered, “ Only this 
 week; before I had much to do with Satan : 
 but now Jefus has conquered him for me.” 
 While fire was fpeaking, feeling great pain of 
 body, fhe faicd, “ O I want more of thefe pains, 
 more of thefe pains, to bring me nearer to Je- 
 fus.” 
 
 “ One fpeaking of knowing the voice of 
 Chrift, fhe faid, “ The voice of Chi iff is a flrange 
 voice to them who do not know their fins for- 
 given. But I know it. For he has pardoned all 
 my fins, and given me his love. And O what a 
 N 4 rneicy, 
 
[ * 9 « ] 
 
 mercy, that fuch a hell-deferving wretch as me, 
 as me, fhould be made to tafteof his love!” 
 
 “ Billy had frequent fits. When he found 
 one coming, he with a fmile laid down his head, 
 faying, “ O fweet love !” or “ O fweet Jefus !” 
 And as foon as he came to himfelf, being afked, 
 How he did ? He would reply, “ I am happy 
 in the love of Chrifl.’’ 
 
 When a gentleman faid, ‘ My dear, you 
 could praife God more, if it were not for thofe 
 ugly fits he replied, “ Sir, They are not ug- 
 ly ; for my dear Jefus fent them. And he has 
 given me patience to bear them. And he bore 
 more for my fins.” 
 
 “ One night a gentleman and his wife 
 came to fee them : and the gendewoman look- 
 ing on Lucy, faid, ‘ She looks as if nothing was 
 the matter with her : fhe is fo pleafant with her 
 eyes.’ She replied, “ I have enough to make me 
 look fo ; for I am full of the love of God.” 
 While fhe fpoke, her eyes fparkled exceedingly, 
 and the tears flowed down her cheeks. At this 
 Billy fmiled but could not fpeak ; having been 
 fpeechlefs for more than an hour. It feemed he 
 was juft going into eternity: but the Lord reviv- 
 ed him a little ; and as foon as he could fpeak, 
 he defired to be held up in bed, and looked 
 at the gemleman, who afked him, How he did ? 
 He anfwered, “ I am happy in Chrift : and 
 I hope you are.” He faid, ‘ I hope I can fay I 
 am.’ Billy replied, “ Has Chrift pardoned your 
 
 fins r 
 
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 fins ?” He laid, ‘ I hope he has.’ “ Sir,” faid Billy, 
 “ Hope will not do. For I had this hope, and 
 yet if I had died then, I fhould furely have gone 
 to hell. But he has forgiven me all my fins and 
 given me a tafte of his love. If you have this love 
 you will know it and be fiire of it : but you can- 
 not know it without the power of God. You may 
 read as many books about Chrift as you pleafe, 
 (He was a great reader) “ But if you read all your 
 life, this will only be in your head, and that 
 head will pei ifh. So that if you have not the love 
 of God in your heart, you will go to hell. But I 
 hope you will not : I will pray to God for you, 
 that he may give you his love.” 
 
 “ Another coming to fee them enquired, 
 how they were ? Billy faid, “ Happier and hap- 
 pier in Chrift ; Are you fo ?” He faid, * No : 
 
 I am not fo happy as you.’ “ Why,” faid Billy, 
 what is the matter ? I am afraid you don’t pray to 
 Chrift, for I am fure he is willing to make you 
 happy.” 
 
 “ One who fat by, feemed ftruck with the 
 difcourfe, but did not fpeak. Billy obferving her 
 faid, “ And you do not pray as you ought. For 
 ifyouhadthe love of Chrft in your heart, you 
 would not look down fo. I wifh you and every 
 one had it” One faid, ‘ My dear would not you 
 give it them if you might ? He anfwered, “ No : 
 for that would be, to take Chrift’s work out of 
 his hands.” 
 
 “ Many who heard what great things 
 N 5 God 
 
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 God had done for them, faid, 4 It will not be fo 
 with you always. If you (hould live to come in- 
 to the wot Id again, he would leave you in the 
 dark.’ They anfwered, 44 We do not think fo : 
 for our Jefus has promifed, that he will never 
 leave us.” 
 
 44 A young woman, who had told them fo 
 before, fpeaking in this manner a fecond time, 
 Billy faid to her, 44 Mifs, are you allured of your 
 intercftf'in Chrift ?” She anfwered, 4 I hope I 
 am in Chrift: but affurance is no way effemial.’ 
 He replied, “But if you have his love, you will be 
 fure you have It. You will know it in your heart. 
 
 I am afraid your hope is only in your head. Do 
 ton 'never quarrel with any body ?” She faid, 
 
 4 No.’ But, fays he, “ You quarrel with God’s 
 word. For he has promifed me, None fhall pluck 
 me out of his hand. And you fay, the wmrld 
 will : fa you make God a ftory-teller.” At this 
 fhe went away difpleafed. 
 
 44 There were few came to fee them, when 
 either of them was able to fpeak, but they enquir- 
 ed into the ftate of them fouls, and without fear 
 told them the danger of dying without an alfur- 
 ance of the love of God. 
 
 44 One coming to fee them, was talked to very 
 clofely by Billy, Lift fhe could bear no more- She 
 turned to Lucy, and faid. ‘You were always good 
 children and never' told ftories.’ “Yes, madam, 
 faid Lucy , 44 but I did, when I was afraid of being 
 beat: and when I faid my prayers ; for I did not 
 
 think 
 
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 think of God. And 1 called him, My Father, 
 when I was a child of wrath. And as to praying, 
 I could not pray, ’till it pleafed him by his fpirit to 
 fhew me my fins. And he fhewed me, we might 
 fay as man}' prayers as we would, and go to church 
 or meeting. Yet all this, if we had not Chrilt for 
 our foundation, would not do.” 
 
 “ When they were afked, if they were afraid 
 to die, they always anfwered, “ No, For what 
 can death do ? He can only lay his cold hand 
 upon our bodies.” 
 
 “ One told Lucy, * Now you may live as you 
 pleafe, fince you are fure of going to heaven.’ 
 She replied, “ No, I would not fin againft my 
 dear Saviour, if you would give me this room 
 full of gold.” 
 
 “ On the Monday before he died, Billy re- 
 peated that hymn, with the mofl triumphant joy, 
 
 “ Come let us join ourchearful forigs 
 “ With angels round the throne !” 
 
 Afterwards he repeated the Lord’s prayer. The 
 laft words he fpoke intelligibly were, “ How 
 pleafant is it to be with Chrifl, for ever, and ever 
 — for ever and ever! Amen! Amen! Amen!” 
 
 “ While he lay fpeechlefs, there came into 
 the room, fome who he feared knew not God. 
 He feemed much affefled, wept and moaned 
 much, waved his hand, and put it on his filler’s 
 mouth ; intimating, as (lie fuppofed, that fhe 
 N 6 fhould 
 
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 fhould fpeak to them. On Wednefday even- 
 ing, February 1. his happy fpirit returned to 
 God.” She died not long after. 
 
 In the following days I went on {lowly, through 
 Staffordfhire and Chefhire, to Manchefler, In 
 this journey, as well as in many others, I ob- 
 {erved a miflake that almoft univerfally prevails. 
 And I defire all travellers to take good notice of 
 it, which may fave them both from trouble and 
 danger. Near thirty years ago I was thinking, 
 “ How is it, that no horfe ever Humbles while 
 I am reading ?” (Hiftory, poetry, and philofo- 
 phy I commonly read on horfe-back, having 
 other employment at other times.) “ No ac- 
 count can poflibly be given but this, becaufe then 
 I throw the reins on his neck. I then fet my- 
 felf to obferve. And I aver, that in riding 
 above an hundred thoufand miles, I fcarce ever 
 remember any horfe, (except tw r o, that would 
 fall head over heels any way) to fall, or make a 
 confiderable Humble, while I rode with a Jlack 
 rein. To fancy therefore that a tight rein pre- 
 vents Humbling, is a capital blunder. I have re- 
 peated the trial more frequently, than moH men 
 in the kingdom can do. A Jlack rein, will pre- 
 vent Humbling, if any thing will : but in fome 
 horfes ; nothing can. 
 
 Thurfday 29. I preached in the new preach- 
 ing-houfe at Rochdale, and on Saturday 31, at 
 CheHer. Tuefday, April 3. I went on to Li- 
 verpool ; 
 
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 verpool: on Wednefday and Thurfday, I read 
 Mr. Sellon’s anfwer to Elifha Cole’s book on 
 God’s fovereignty, fo plaufibly written, that it is 
 no wonder fo many are deceived thereby." 
 
 Friday 6. I preached in Wigan at noon, and 
 in the evening at Bolton. Sunday 8. after preach, 
 ing at eight and one, I hafl.en.gd on to James 
 Edmundfon’s, preached to a few ferious people, 
 and gave direftions to his poor fick daughter, 
 which it is poflible, may fave her life. Monday 
 9.I rode on to Amblefide, onTuefday, to White- 
 heaven. 
 
 Here I found a faintnefs had fpread through 
 all. No wonder fince there had been no morning 
 preaching for fome months. Yet every morning I 
 was here, the congregations were as large as they 
 had been for many years. Thurfday 12. I met 
 fuch a company of children, as I have not found 
 within an hundred miles. Several of them ap- 
 peared to be convinced of fin ; five, rejoicing in 
 God their Saviour. And upon- enquiry, I found 
 their whole behaviour was fuitable to their pro- 
 feflion. 
 
 Good-Friday, 13 . Notice having been given 
 thro’ miftake of my preaching at Carlifle, I was 
 obliged to fet out from Whitehaven, immedia- 
 tely after the morning preaching. I preached in 
 Cockermouth at one and then rode on to Car- 
 lifle. It was here the day of fmall things ; the fo- 
 ciety confiding but of fifteen members. I preach- 
 ed 
 
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 ed at fix, and as many as could hear, behaved 
 with the utmoft ferioufnefs. Afterwards I walked 
 to Houghton, a village two miles from Cailille, 
 and on an hard, clean bed, flept in peace. 
 
 Saturday 14. I preached at five to moft of the 
 village, though on fo fhort a warning: and at 
 night in Carlifle. Leaving Mr. Rankin to preach 
 in the evening, I rode on to Longtown: where 
 finding no better place to fcreen us from the wind, 
 I flood in a large, broad entry, with a room on 
 either hand. Many crouded in here ; the reft 
 flood at the door. Eafter-dav 1 5, Jofeph Guilford 
 preached at five. At eight I preached in a little 
 fquare. But at one I was defired to preach in the 
 market-place, where was a far more numer- 
 ous congregation. Afterwards we took horfe, 
 and before eight, reached an admirable inn at 
 Dumfries. 
 
 Monday 16. We had a fair morning till we 
 began to climb up Enterkine, one of the higheft 
 mountains in the weft of Scotland. We then got 
 into a Scotch mift, and were dropping wet, before 
 we came to the Lead -hills. In the evening we 
 reached Lefmahagow, andGlafgowonTuef. where 
 1 fpent two days with much fatisfadlion. I had 
 defigned to go ftrait from hence to Perth : but 
 being defired to take Edinburgh in my way. I 
 rode thither on Friday and endeavoured to con- 
 firm thofe whom many had ftrove to turn out of 
 the way. What pity is it that the children of 
 God, fhould fo zealoufly do the devil's work ! 
 
 How 
 
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 How is it, that they are {fill ignorant of Sa- 
 tan’s devices ? Lord what is man ? 
 
 Saturday 21. Pufhing through violent wind 
 and rain we came to Perth in the afternoon. 
 This evening the Tolbouth contained the con- 
 gregation ; and at eight in the morning. The ftor- 
 my wind would not fuffer me to preach abroad in 
 the evening. So we retired into the court houfe, 
 as many as could, and had a folemn and comfort- 
 able hour, Monday 23, I walked over to Scone, 
 and took another view of that palace ofantient 
 men of renown, long fince mouldered into com- 
 mon dull. The buildings too are now decaying 
 apace. So pafTes the dream of human greatnefs ! 
 
 Tuefday 24. I fpent a few agreeable hours 
 with Dr. O. an upright, friendly, fenfible man. 
 Such likewife I found Mr. Black, the fenior mi- 
 nifier at Perth, who loon after went to Abraham’s 
 bofom. 
 
 Wednefday 25, Taking horfe at five, we 
 rode to Dunkeld, the firft confiderable town in 
 the Highlands. We were agreeably fuprized ; a 
 pleafanter fituation cannot be eafily imagin- 
 ed. Afterwards we went fome miles on a 
 fmooth delightful road, hanging over the 
 river Tay, and then went on, winding through 
 the mountains, to the caftle of Blair. The 
 mountains for the next twenty miles, were much 
 higher and covered with fnow. In the evening 
 we came to Dalwhinny, the deareft inn I have 
 met with in North-Britain. In the morning, we 
 
 were 
 
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 were informed fo much fnow had fall an in the 
 night, that we could get no farther. And indeed 
 three young women, attempting to crofs the 
 mountain to Blair, were fwallowed up in the 
 fnow. However we refolved, with God’s help, 
 to go as far as we could. But about noon we 
 were at a full flop : the fnow driving together on 
 the top of the mountain, had quite blocked up 
 the road. We difmounted, and ftrjking out of the 
 road warily, fometimes to the left, with many 
 {tumbles, but no hurt, we got on to Dalmagarry, 
 and before funfet, to Invernefs. 
 
 Benjamin and William Chappel, who had 
 been here three months, were waiting for a vef- 
 fel, to return to London. They had met a few 
 people every night, to fing and pray together. 
 And their behaviour, fuitable to their profeffion, 
 had removed much prejudice. 
 
 Frid. 27. I breakfafled with the fenior minifler 
 Mr. M’Kenzie, 3 pious and friendly man. At fix 
 in the evening, I began preaching in the church, 
 and with very uncommon liberty of fpirit. At feven 
 in the morning I preached in the library, a large 
 commodious room. But it would not contain the 
 congregation : many were contained to go a* 
 way. Afterwards I rode over to Fort George, a 
 very regular fortification, capable of containing 
 four thoufand men. As I was juft taking borfe, 
 the commanding officer fent wmrd, “ I was wel- 
 come to preach.” But it was a little too late, I 
 
 had 
 
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 had then but juft time to ride back to Inver- 
 nefs. 
 
 Sun. 29. At feven, the benches being remov* 
 ed, the library contained us tolerably well.- And 
 I am perfuaded, God {hook the hearts, of many 
 outfide Chriftians. I preached in the church at 
 five in the afternoon. Mr. Helton defigned to 
 preach abroad at feven ; but the minifters defired 
 he would preach in the church which he did, to 
 a large and attentive congregation. Many fol- 
 lowed us from the church to our lodgings, with 
 whom I {pent fome time in prayer, and then ad- 
 vifed them, as many as could, to meet together, 
 and fpend an hour every evening in prayer and 
 ufeful converfation. 
 
 Monday 30. We fet out in a fine morning. 
 A little before we reached Nairn, we were met 
 by a meflenger from the minifter Mr. Dunbar; 
 who defired, I would breakfaft with him, and 
 give them a fermon in his church. Afterwards we 
 haftened to Elgin through a pleafant and well 
 cultivated country. When we fet out from hence 
 the rain began, and poured down till we came 
 to the Spey, the mod impetuous river I ever 
 faw. Finding the large boat, was in no hafle to 
 move, I ftepped into a fmall one juft going off. 
 It whirled us over the ftream almoft in a minute. 
 I waited at the inn at Fochaber, (dark and dirty 
 enough in all reafon) till our friends overtook 
 me with the horfes. The outfide of the inn at 
 Keith was of the fame hue, and promifed us no 
 
 great 
 

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 great things. But we were agreeably di {appoint- 
 ed. We found plenty of every thing, and fo 
 dried ourfelves at lerfure. 
 
 Tuefday, May 1 . I rode on to Aberdeen, and 
 fpent the reft of the week there. It fell out 
 well ; for the weather was uncommon ; we had 
 {forms of fnow or rain every day. And it feems 
 the weather was the fame as far as London. So 
 general a {form has fear re been in the memory 
 of man. 
 
 Sunday 6. I preached in the College-kirk at 
 Old- Aberdeen, to a very ferious (though moftly 
 genteel) congregation. In the evening I preach- 
 ed at our own room, and early in the morning 
 took my leave of this loving people. We came 
 to Montrofe about noon. I had defigned to 
 preach there ; but found no notice had been 
 given. However I went down to the green, 
 and fung an hymn. People prefently flocked 
 from all parts. And God gave me great free- 
 dom of fpeech, fo that I hope we did not meet 
 in vain. 
 
 At feven in the evening I preached at Ar- 
 broth, (properly Aberbrothwick.) The whole 
 town feems moved : the congregation was the 
 largeft I have feen fince we left Invernefs. And 
 the fociety, though but of nine months {landing, 
 is the largeft in the kingdom next that of Aber- 
 deen. 
 
 Tuefday 8. I took a view of the fin all remains 
 pf the abbey. I know nothing like it in all 
 
 North- 
 
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 North-Britain. I paced it, and found it an 
 hundred yards long. The breadth is proporti- 
 onable. Part of the weft end, which is ftill 
 ftanding, fhews it was full as high as Weftmin* 
 fter-abbey. The fouth end oi the crofs ifte 
 likewife is ftanding, near the top of which 
 is a large circular window. The zealous re- 
 formers, they told us, burnt this down. God 
 deliver us from reforming mobs ! 
 
 I have feen no town in Scotland which in- 
 creafes fo fall:., or which is built with fo much 
 common fenfe as this. Two entire new-ftreets, 
 and part of a third have been built within the fe 
 two years. They run parallel with each other, 
 and have a row of gardens between them. So 
 that every houfe has a garden: and thus both 
 health and convenience are confulted. 
 
 Wednefday 9 . I rode on to Dundee. Th* 
 minifters here, particularly Mr. Small, are bitter 
 enough: notwithftanding which, the fociety is 
 well eftablilhed, and the congregations exceed- 
 ing large. I dealt very plainly with them at fix, 
 and ftill more fo, the next evening. Yet none 
 appeared to be offended. Friday 11 . I went 
 forward to Edinburgh. Saturday 12 . 1 received 
 but a melancholy account of the ft3te of things 
 here. The congregations were nearly as ufual : 
 but the fociety, which when I was here before, 
 confifted of above an hundred and fixty mem- 
 bers, was now fhrunk to about fifty. Such is 
 the fruit of a fingle preacher’s ftaying a whole 
 
 year 
 
a 308 ] 
 
 year in once place ! Together with the labour* 
 of good Mr. Townlhend. 
 
 Sunday 13. At feven I preached in the cha- 
 pel taken by Lady Glenorchy, which ftands at 
 a great diftance from ours, in the molt honoura- 
 ble part of the city. Between twelve and one 
 I preached in the High School-yard, it being 
 too ftormy to preach on the Caflle-hill. A little 
 before fix I preached in our chapel, crowded 
 above and below. But I doubt, with little ef* 
 fe£l : exceeding few feemed to feel what they 
 heard. 
 
 Monday 14. After ten years enquiry, I have 
 learned, what are the Highlands of Scotland ! 
 Some told me, “ The highlands begin, when 
 you crofs the Tay others, “ when you crofs 
 the North-Efk:’’ and others, “ when you crofs 
 the river Spey but all of them miffed the 
 mark. Tor the truth of the matter is, the high- 
 lands are bounded by no river at all, but by 
 Cams, or heaps of fiones laid in a rosv, fouth-weft 
 and north- eafi, from fea to fea Thefe former- 
 ly divided the kingdom of the Pi£ls, from that 
 of the Caledonians, which included all the 
 country, north of the Cams, feveral whereof are 
 Hill remaining. It takes in Argylefhire, moll 
 of Perthfhire, Murraylhire, with all the north- 
 weft counties. This is called the Highlands, 
 becaufe a confiderable part of it (though not the 
 whole) is mountainous. But it is not more 
 mountainous than North-Wales, nor than many 
 
 parts 
 
[ 309 3 
 
 parts of England and Ireland: nor do I believe 
 it has any mountain higher than Snowdon hill, 
 or the Skidder in Cumberland. Talking Erfe 
 therefore, is not the thing that diflinguifhes 
 thefe from the Low-lands. Neither is this or 
 that river ; both the Tay, the Elk, and the Spey 
 running through the highlands, not fouth of 
 them. 
 
 Thurfday 17. At five in the moning I took a 
 folemn leave of our friends at Edinburgh. About 
 eight I preached .at MulTelborough, and found 
 fome hope, there will be a blefling in the rem- 
 nant. In the evening I preached in the new houfe 
 at Dumbar, the chearfulleft in the kingdom. Fri- 
 day 18. We rode over to the Earl of Hadding- 
 ton’s feat, finely fituated between two woods. 
 The houfe is exceeding large and pleafant, com- 
 manding a wide profpefl both ways. And the 
 earl is cutting walks through the woods, fmooth- 
 ing the ground, and much inlarging and beauti- 
 fying his garden. Yet he is to die ! In the even- 
 ing, I trull; God broke fome of the llony hearts 
 of Dunbar. A little increafe here is in the fociety 
 likewife : and all the members walk unblame- 
 ably. 
 
 Satur. 19. At noon I preached in the Town- 
 hall at Berwick. Coming to Alnwick in the af- 
 ternoon, I found that wife and good man, Wil- 
 liam Coward, had been buried two or three days 
 before. I judged it right to do honour to his 
 memory, by preaching a kind of funeral fermon 
 
 on 
 
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 on, There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, 
 nor wifdom in the grave whither thou goejl. 
 
 Sunday-20. At feven I preached in the houfe; 
 at four and at feven in the market-place. But 
 the multitude was fo great, that I doubt many 
 could not hear, I then met the fociety, and 
 we feemed to breath the fame fpirit with 
 him that was juft entered into the joy of his 
 Lord. 
 
 Monday 21. I preached at Morpeth and at 
 Newcaftle. On Wednefday 23. 1 went over to 
 Sunderland. Saturday 26. We went by w’ater 
 toNorth-Biddick. The preaching here had been 
 difoontinued for many years, as it feemed to be 
 fowing upon the fand. But at length we found 
 the fruit of our labour. Many are both con- 
 vinced and converted to God. In returning, 
 as we were four large boats in company, we 
 made 
 
 “ The mountains and vales his praifes rebound.” 
 
 So is even the water -language now changed ! 
 
 Sunday 27. At eight I preached near the crofs 
 in Sunderland, to fuch an affembly as was never 
 feen there before. But I believe that at Gatef- 
 head-fell was ftill larger: as was that at the Caf- 
 tle-garth in Newcaftle. Monday 28. I began 
 again the meeting of the children, which had 
 been negle&ed for fome months. And we 
 
 had 
 
[ 3 11 ] 
 
 had a token for good : two or three were 
 cut to the heart : and many feemed much af- 
 fefted. 
 
 t On Tuefday the 29th, and the following days, 
 
 I took a little circuit through Weardale, Teef- 
 dale, and Swaledale. The ten days following I 
 fpent in and near Newcaftle. Monday, June 11. 
 
 I took a chearful leave of that loving people; 
 about noon preached at Durham, and in the 
 evening, before Mr. Watfon’s door to a nume- 
 rous congregation at Stockton. luefday 12. At 
 five I preached in the new houfe, ftrangely raifed, 
 when the cafe appeared quite defperate, by 
 God’s touching the heart of a man of fubffance, 
 who bought the ground and built it without de- 
 lay. I preached at Norton at noon, and after- 
 wards met thofe, who can rejoice evermore and 
 pray without ceafng. We bad another comforta- 
 ble' opportunity at Yarm in the evening, where 
 I found a greater number of thofe who believe 
 God has enabled them to love him with all their 
 heart and foul. 
 
 Wednefday 13. I preached at Halfey, ten 
 miles from Yarm, and in the evening at Thirfk. 
 Thurfday tq, about two at Potto, and in the 
 evening at Hutton. Plere, as well as elfewhere, 
 thofe who believe they are faved from fin, un- 
 dergo many trials from their brethren. But fo 
 much the more will the God of all grace, after 
 
 they 
 
[ 3 12 ] 
 
 they have fujfered a while , ejlablijh,jlrengthen and 
 fettle them. 
 
 Friday 15. I was agreeably furprized, to find 
 the whole road from Tliirfk to Stokefley, which 
 ufed to be extremely bad, better than moft turn* 
 pikes. The gentlemen had exerted themfelves, 
 and raifed money enough to mend it effeftually. 
 So they have done for feveral hundred miles in 
 Scotland, and throughout all Connaught in Ire- 
 land. And fo they undoubtedly might do, 
 throughout all England, without fadling the poor 
 people with the vile impofition of turnpikes for 
 ever. 
 
 In the afternoon we came to Whitby. Having 
 preached thrice a day for five days, I was willing 
 to preach in the houfe. But notice had been gi- 
 ven of my preaching in the market-place. So I 
 began at fix, to a large congregation, moft of 
 them deeply attentive. 
 
 Saturday 16. I found our preacher, James 
 Brownfield, had juft fet up for himfelf. The rea- 
 fons he gave for leaving the Methodifts were, 1. 
 That they w'ent to church ; 2. That they held 
 Perfefiiion. I earneftly defired our fociety, to 
 leave him to God, and fay nothing about him, 
 good or bad. In the afternoon I looked over Dr. 
 Prieftly’s Englifh Grammar. I wonder he would 
 publifh it after Bifkop Lowth’s. 
 
 Sunday 17. I met the fele£l fociety, confifting 
 of fixty-five members. I believe, all of thefe were 
 
 favpd 
 
[ S 1 3 ] 
 
 faved from fin : moft of them are ftill in glorious 
 liberty. Many of them fpake with admirable 
 fimplicity. And their words were like fire. Im- 
 mediately the flame kindled, and fpread from 
 heart to heart. At eight I preached ; at nine, met 
 the children, moft of whom had known the love 
 of God. And feveral of them were able ft ill, to 
 rejoice in God their Saviour. Almoft as foon as 
 I began to fpeak, God fpoke to their hearts, and 
 they were ill able to contain themfelves. I ob- 
 ferved one little maid in particular, who heaved 
 and ftrove for fome time, till at length (lie was 
 conflrained to yield, and break out into ftrong 
 cries and tears. 
 
 We had a poor fermon at church. However 
 I went again in the afternoon, remembering the 
 words of Mr. Philip Henry, “ If the preacher 
 does not know his duty, I blefs God that I know 
 mine” 
 
 Between one and two I met the bands, being 
 near two thirds of the fociety. Their opennefs 
 was quite furprizing, as well as the fpirit with 
 which they fpoke. One plain woman cried and 
 fpoke and cried again, fo that they were in tears 
 on every fide. I fuppofe, if I could have flayed fo 
 long, fome or other would have fpoke till 
 night. 
 
 At five I preached in the market-place again, 
 to a far larger congregation than before. Our 
 Iove-feaft took up the next two hours, at which 
 many were filled with folemn joy. Afterwards I 
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[ 3*4 ] 
 
 met a few of the children again, all of whom had 
 tailed that the Lord is gracious. I alked her that 
 cried fo violently in the morning, what was the 
 matter with her ? She faid, “ I was fo over- 
 whelmed with the power and love of God, that 
 I could not hide it-’ 5 When I quellioned her far- 
 ther, fhe faid, “ A quarter of a year ago, one 
 Saturday night, I was quite convinced I was a 
 finner, and afraid of dropping into hell ; but on 
 Sunday I felt the pardoning love of God. Yet I 
 had many doubts till Monday evening, when 
 they were all taken away in a moment. After 
 this I law and felt the wickednefs of my heart, 
 and longed to be delivered from it. And on Sun- 
 day I was delivered, and had as clear a witnefs 
 of this, as of my jullification. But I was fome- 
 times off my watch; then it was not fo clear; 
 and people commended me, till by little and little 
 I loll it. Indeed I ftill feel the love of God ; but 
 not as 1 did before.” 
 
 Monday 18. I preached at Robinhood’s-bay, 
 about noon ; at Scarborough in the evening. 
 W T ednefday 20 . 1 rode to Burlington and preach- 
 ed on the Key, to many plain, and many genteel 
 people. I preached at Hull in the evening, and 
 the next at Beverley. Friday 22. I went on to 
 Y r ork, where there is now more life among the 
 people, than has been for feveral years. We 
 found much of the prefence of God this evening, 
 and much more the next. One young man was 
 
 in 
 
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 in a violent agony, and could not refrain from 
 crying aloud. Several continued with him in 
 prayer till ten o’clock. He was then filled with 
 joy unfpeakable. 
 
 Sunday 24. I met the feleft fociety at fix, and 
 had the pleafure to find, that tome who had loft 
 the great bleffing for months or years, had re- 
 covered it with large increafe. AteightI preached 
 to a people ready prepared for the Lord. At nine 
 I met the children. At five, by taking out the 
 benches, we made room for the greateft part of 
 the congregation. Afterwards I fpent an hour 
 with the fociety, and fo concluded the bufy, 
 happy day. 
 
 Monday 25. I preached in Tadcafter at noon, 
 and at Pateley-bridge in the evening. It rained, 
 as ufual all the time : but the congregation flood 
 as ftill as the trees. And God did fatisfy the 
 hungry with good things, many of whom have 
 given him all thtir heart. 
 
 Tuefday 26. It rained all the time I was preach- 
 ing at Otiey, to a numerous congregation. And 
 they drank in the words of life, juft as the thirft- 
 ing earth the fhowers. The next evening I 
 preached in houfe at Yeadon, the rain not buf- 
 fering us to ftand abroad. 
 
 Thurfday 28 . 1 rode to Mr. Sutcliffe’s at Hoo- 
 ,hole, a lovely valley, incompaft with high moun- 
 tains. I flood on the frnooth grabs before his 
 houfe, (which {lands on a gently rifing ground,) 
 and all the people on the flope before me. It 
 Oa was 
 
[ 3*6 ] 
 
 was a glorious opportunity. I truft, many came 
 boldly to the throne , and found grace to help in 
 time of need . 
 
 I can hardly believe that I am this day entered 
 into the fixty.eighth year of ray age ! How mar- 
 vellous are the ways of God ! How has he kept 
 me, even from a child! From ten to thirteen or 
 fourteen, I had little but bread to eat, and not 
 great plenty of that. I believe this was fo far from 
 hurting me, that it laid the foundation of lafling 
 health. When I grew up* in confequence of 
 reading Dr. Cheyne, I chofe to eat fparingly and 
 drink water. This was another great means of 
 continuing my health, till I was about feven and 
 twenty. I then began fpitting of blood, which 
 continued feveral years. A warm climate cured 
 this. I was afterwards brought to the brink of 
 death by a fever : but it left me healthier than 
 before. Eleven years after, I was in the third 
 flage of a confumption: in three months it 
 pleafed God to remove this alfo. Since that 
 time I have known neither pain nor ficknefs, and 
 am now healthier than I was forty years ago ! 
 This hath God wrought ! 
 
 On Friday and Saturday I preached at Hepton- 
 flall, Coin, and Kighley. Sunday, July 1. Being 
 much concerned for the poor parifhioners of Ha- 
 worth, who hear and hear, and are no more af- 
 fefted than ftones, I fpoke to them in the mod 
 cutting manner I could. May God apply it to 
 their hearts ! 
 
 On 
 
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 On Monday andTuefday I preached at Bing- 
 ley and Bradford, and Wednefday 4, rode to 
 Halifax. Here I had an opportunity of enquir- 
 ing throughly into a very extraordinary cafe. On 
 January 26, 1760, a young woman of two and 
 twenty, felt in the evening an uncommon cold- 
 nefs at her feet. Prefently after, fhe was feized 
 with convulfions. The diforder from that time 
 attended her, more or lefs every day, in fpite of 
 all the medicines, which were adminidered by 
 the moll fkilful phyficians. One of her fits be- 
 gan a little before we went in. At fird fhe fell 
 back in her chair, feemingly fenfelefs, and 
 wrought (like one firangled) in her bread and 
 throat. In two or three minutes, fire fprung up, 
 turned round many times, then dropped down 
 and began beating her head againfi the done- 
 floor. Quickly fhe darted up, leaped right up- 
 wards many times, then ran to and fro with an 
 hundred odd gediculations. She beat herfelf on 
 the head, tore her hair, and attempted to run 
 into the fire. Being put into a chair, fhe fpoke 
 a good deal, but not articulately. She was con- 
 vulfed again from head to foot ; and afterwards 
 faid wildly, “ Where am I ? Who are thefe ? I 
 want my father. I will go to my Father.” In 
 about an hour fhe came to her fenfes. 
 
 I fliould have imagined, the phyficians would 
 have fuppofed all this to be counterfeit. But it 
 ieemsone and all thought that could not be ; as fhe 
 O 3 could- 
 
[ 3 lS 1 
 
 could have no motive to feign, fince fhe gained 
 nothing thereby, living upon the fruit of her 
 own and her lather’s labour. And many of the 
 circumllances could not be accounted for, upon 
 that fuppofition. Such were her tears, her foam- 
 ing at the mouth, her tearing her hair, ftriking 
 herfelf, and beating her head againfl the Hones : 
 her flrong convulfions, and what none can well 
 conceive unlefs he faw it, the change of her 
 countenance, which was horrid and dreadful, 
 yea diabolical, as long as the fits were upon 
 her, but was remarkably pretty and agreeable, as 
 foon as fhe came to herfelf. 
 
 When old Dr. A -r was afked, what her 
 
 diforder was ? He anfwered, “ It is what for- 
 merly they would have called being bewitched .” 
 And why fhould they not call it fo now ? Be- 
 caufe the infidels have hooted witchcraft out of 
 the world : and the complaifant Chriftians in 
 large numbers, have joined with them in the cry. 
 
 I do not fo much wonder at this ; that m3ny of 
 thefe fhould herein talk like infidels. But I 
 have fometimes been inclined to wonder, at the 
 pert, faucy, indecent manner, wherein fome of 
 thofe trample upon men far wifer than them- 
 felves : at their fpeaking fo dogmatically againfl 
 what not only the whole world, Heathen and 
 Chriftian, believed in all paft ages, but thou- 
 fands, learned as well as unlearned, firmly believe 
 at this day. I inftance in Dr. Smollet and 
 
 Mr. 
 
[ 3*9 ] 
 
 Mr. Guthrie, whofe manner of fpeaking con- 
 cerning witchcraft, mufl be extremely offenfive 
 to every fenfible man, who cannot give up his 
 bible. 
 
 Thurfday 5. 1 preached at fix at Daw-green, 
 near Dewfbnry. All things contributed to make 
 it a refrelhing feafon : the gently-declining fun, 
 the ftillnefs of the evening, the beauty of the 
 meadows and fields, through which 
 
 The fmooth clear “ river drew its finuous train 
 
 The oppofite hills and woods, and the earnefl- 
 nefs of the people, covering the top of the hill 
 on which we flood : and above all, the day- 
 fpring from on high, the confolation of the Holy 
 One ! 
 
 Saturday 7. I rode to Mifs Bofanquet’s. Her 
 family is flill a pattern, and a general bleffmg to 
 the country. Sunday 8. I preached at White- 
 chapel, Birflal and Leeds ; at each to as many 
 as my voice could reach, Monday 9, about 
 noon, I preached at Woodhoufe, a village near 
 Leeds, where a flame is fuddenly broke out. 
 Few days pafs without frefh difplays of the grace 
 of God, converting finners to himfelf : and a 
 fpirit of childlike, Ample love runs through the 
 whole body of the people. Tuefday 10. I rode 
 to Harwood, and preached to a large congrega- 
 tion of the fame fpirit with that at Wood- 
 houfe. 
 
[ 3 2 ° ] 
 
 houfe. Here too the word of God runs fwifily ; 
 many are convinced, and many converted to 
 God. 
 
 Wednefday n. I rode to Doncafter, and 
 preached at noon at the new houfe; one of the 
 neateft in England. It was fufficiently crowded, 
 and (what is more flrange) with ferious and atten- 
 tive hearers. What was more unlikely, fome 
 years fince, than that fuch an houfe or fuch a 
 congregation fhould be feen here ! In the evening 
 I preached at Finningly. The church was filled; 
 but I fear few felt the word. 
 
 Thurfday 12. I preached at Epworth. Friday 
 13. We rode through heavy rain to Newton- 
 upon-Trent. The weather clearingup, I preached 
 before the houfe to an edrneft congregation. A 
 people more loving, more artlefs, or more athirfl 
 for God, I have feldom feen. Taking horfe 
 about eleven, we rode broiling in the fun through 
 Lincoln to Horncaftle. Our brethren defiant 
 
 O 
 
 me to preach in the market-place, I cried to an 
 unbroken multitude, What is a man profited, ij 
 he fiall gain the tohole world, and lofe his own 
 foul ? The power of God w T as upon them, and 
 they all calmly attended, till I commended them 
 to God. 
 
 This was the firfl day that I have been weary 
 (the violent heat drinking up my fpirits) fince I 
 fet out from London. Saturday 14. In another 
 fultry day we rode to Lowth, formerly another 
 
 den 
 
[ 3 21 ] 
 
 den of lions. At firft great part of the congrega- 
 tion feemed to care for none of thefe things. But 
 God made them care ; the Lord looked down 
 from heaven, and his arrows went abroad. I have 
 feldom feen perfons more fenfibly ftruck. They 
 gathered clofer and clofer together, till there was 
 not one inattentive hearer, and hardly one unaf- 
 fected. In riding hence the heat was as intenfe 
 as ever : fo that I was again tired, before we 
 reached Grimfby. But I foon recovered, and 
 preached to a congregation of good, old Metho- 
 difts, on, Daniel in the den of lions. 
 
 Sunday 15. I preached at eight and again at 
 two, and then haftened away to Barrow. The 
 people here much refembled thofe at Horncaftle. 
 So I would not take them out of their depth, 
 but explained and inforced thefe folemn words, 
 It is appointed unto men once to die. Monday 1 6. 
 At nine I preached in Awkborough, to a people 
 of quite another kind. So I fpoke to them di- 
 reftly of Chrift crucified; and the lalvation 
 which is through him. About noon I preached 
 to a people of the fame fpirit at Amcoats. In 
 the evening, the houfe at Swinfleet not being 
 able to contain a third of the congregation, I 
 preached on a fmooth, green place, fheltered 
 from the wind, on Heb. vii. 25. Many rejoiced 
 to hear of being faved to the uttermof , the very 
 thing which their fouls longed after. 
 
 Tuefday 17. I preached in the market-place 
 
 at 
 
[ 3 2 2 ] 
 
 at Thorn : all were quiet and tolerably atten- 
 tive. 
 
 Wednefday 18. About noon I preached at 
 Crowle. This is the place, the former rector 
 of which, cotemporary with my father, or- 
 dered thofe words to be infcribed upon his tomb- 
 ffone. 
 
 “ Here lies the body of Solomon Afhburn, 
 Forty years re£tor of this parifh. 
 
 All the day long have I Jlr etched out my hands , 
 Unto a difobedient and gainfaying people. 
 
 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lufls , 
 And let them follow their own imaginations 
 
 They did follow them for many years. But at 
 length God hath vifited them. 
 
 Friday and Saturday I fpent at Epworth. 
 Sunday 22, about eight, I preached at Mifterton: 
 at one about half a mile from Haxey church : and 
 at five onEpworth-crofs to the largeft congrega- 
 tion in Lincolnfhire, on, I am not ajhamed of the 
 gofpel of Chrift. 
 
 Monday 23. I preached at Doncafter and Ro- 
 therham : on Tuefday and Wenefday at Shef- 
 field. On Wednefday evening my heart was fo 
 inlarged, that I knew not how to leave off. Do 
 fome fay, “ I preach longer than ufual, when I 
 am barren ?” It is quite the contrary with me. 
 1 never exceed, but when I am full of matter. 
 
 And 
 
[ 3 2 3 ] 
 
 And flill I confider, it may not be with my au- 
 dience as with me. So that it is flrange, if I ex- 
 ceed my time, above a quarter of an hour. 
 
 OnThurfday and Friday I preached at Creitch, 
 Derby, Burton-upon-Trent andAfbby. Saturday 
 
 28. I rode to Caftle-Donnington ; but hay-mak- 
 ing had emptied the town, till a violent fhower 
 brought all the hay-makers home, who received 
 the good word with gladnefs. 
 
 At feven I preached in Nottingham. Sunday 
 
 29, at Sanjaker, where God was eminently pre- 
 fent. At five in the evening I went to the 
 market-place in Nottingham. Thoufands upon 
 thoufands flocked together : and all were ftill as 
 night, while I opened and applied, I am not 
 afhamed of the gofpel of Chrijl. We clofed the 
 day with a love-feaft, during which four mour- 
 ners found peace with God; two of them could 
 not avoid declaring it, in the prefence of all 
 their brethren. 
 
 Monday 30. I preached at Bingham, ten miles 
 from Nottingham. I really admired the exqui- 
 fite ftupidity of the people. They gaped and 
 flared, while I was fpeaking of death and judg- 
 ment, as if they had never heard of fuch things 
 before. And they were not helped by twofurly, 
 ill-mannered clergymen, who feemed to be juli 
 as wife as themfelves. The congregation at 
 Hooton in the evening was more noble, behav- 
 ing with the utmoft decency. 
 
 Tuefday gi. At nine I preached in the Mar- 
 ket- 
 
[ 3 2 4 3 
 
 ket-place at Loughborough, to almoft as large a 
 congregation as at Nottingham ; and equally at- 
 tentive. Thence I rode to Markfield. Not- 
 withftanding the harveft, the church was quick- 
 ly filled. And great was our rejoicing in our 
 great high-prieft, through whom we came boldly 
 to the throne of grace. In the evening I preach- 
 ed in the Caflle-yard at Leicefter, to a multitude 
 of awakened and unawakened. One feeble at- 
 tempt was made to diflurb them : a man was 
 fent to cry frelh falmon at a little diflance. But 
 he might as well have fpared the pains; for none 
 took the leaf! notice of him. 
 
 Monday, Auguft 1. I rode to Northampton. 
 It being flill extremely hot. I determined not 
 to be cooped up, but took my Hand on the 
 fide of the common, and cried aloud to a large 
 multitude of rich and poor, Acquaint thfelf now 
 with him, and be at peace. 
 
 Tuefdav 2. Some friends from London met 
 us at St. Alban’s. Before dinner we took a 
 walk in the abbey, one of the mod ancient 
 buildings in the kingdom, near a tboufand vears 
 old : and one of the large!!, being five hundred 
 and fixty feet in length (confiderably more than 
 Weflminfler abbey) and broad and high in pro- 
 portion. Near the eaff-end is the tomb and 
 vault of good Duke Humphrey. Some now 
 living remember fince his body was intire. But 
 after the coffin was opened, fo many were curi- 
 ous to tafle the liquor in which it was preferv- 
 
 c-d, 
 
[ 3 2 5 ] 
 
 ed, that in a little time the corpfe was left bare, 
 and then foon mouldered away. A few bones 
 are now all that remain. How little is the fpirit 
 concerned at this ! 
 
 Sunday g. And for five or fix days this week, 
 the heat was as great, as I remember in Georgia. 
 Tuefday 7. Our conference began, and ended 
 on Friday 10. On Sunday evening I fet out in 
 the machine, and the next evening preached at 
 Briftol. Saturday 18. I gave a folemn warn- 
 ing to a large congregation on Redcliff-hill, from 
 thofe awful words, The. time is come, that judg- 
 ment muji begin at the houj'e oj God. Surely it will; 
 unlefs a general repentance prevent a general 
 vifitation. 
 
 Monday 20. I rode to Charlton. The vio- 
 lent heat continuing, I preached in the evening 
 under a tree, to a congregation who were all 
 attention. Tuefday 21. I rode on to Tiverton 
 and thence through Launcefton, Camelford., 
 Port Ifaac, St. Cuthbert, St. Agnes, and Red- 
 ruth to St. Ives, Here God has made all our 
 enemies to be at peace with us, fo that I might 
 have preached in any part of the town. But I 
 rather chofe a meadow, where fuch as would 
 might fit down, either on the grafs or on the 
 hedges, (So the Cornifh term their broad ffone- 
 walls, which are ufually covered with grafs.) 
 Here I inforced, Fear God and keep his command • 
 ments ; for this is the whole of man , 
 
 Vol. XXXII. P 
 
 Suridaj 
 
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 Sunday 26. Being defired to preach in the 
 town, for the fake of fome who could not come 
 up the hill, I began near the market-place at 
 eight, on Without holinefs no man Jhall ft the 
 Lord . We had an ufeful fermon at church, and 
 another in the afternoon, delivered in a ftrong 
 and earneft manner. At five I preached again. 
 Well nigh all the town were prefent, and thou- 
 fands from all parts of the country. To whom 
 I explained, The Son of God was manifjied to 
 dejlroy the works of the devil. 
 
 Monday 27 I was furprized to find, that the 
 feleft fociety had been wholly neglefted. I got 
 a few of them together ; but did not find fo 
 much as one, who had not given up his confi- 
 dence. At nine I renewed ihe meeting of the 
 children,- which had alfo been given up for a 
 long feafon. But fo dead a company have I 
 feldom feen. I found fcarce one fpark of even 
 the fear of God among them. 
 
 In the evening I preached before the houfe at 
 St. Juft, cn l Jaw the dead f nail and great, fand 
 before God. It was a glorious hour. The fame 
 fpirit breathed upon us, at the meeting of the fo- 
 ciety. At fuch a feafon, who does not feel, that 
 nothing is too hard for God ? 
 
 On Tuefday and Wednefday I preached at 
 Newlin, Gulzinny and St. John’s. Thurfday 30. 
 I rode to Falmouth, and preached at two in the 
 afternoon near the church, to a greater number 
 
 of 
 
E 3 2 7 1 
 
 of people than I ever faw there before, except 
 the mob, fiveand twenty years ago. I preached 
 at Penryn in the evening : Friday noon, in 
 Crowan : in the evening at Trevorga near Red- 
 ruth. 
 
 Here I met with an ingenious book, the late 
 Lord Lyttleton’s dialogues of the dead. A great 
 part of it I could heartily fubfcribe to, though 
 not to every word. I believe madam Guion was 
 in feveral miftakes, fpeculative and pra&ical toot 
 Yet I would no more dare to call her than her 
 friend, archbifnop Fenelon, “ adiftra&ed Enthu- 
 fiaft.” She was undoubtedly a woman of a very 
 uncommon underftanding, and of excellent piety. 
 Nor was fhe any more “ a Lunatic,” than fhe was 
 an Heretic. 
 
 Another of this lively writer’s affertions is, 
 “ Martin has fpawned a ftrange brood of fellows, 
 called Methodifts, Moravians, Hutchinfonians, 
 who are madder than Jack was in his worft 
 days.” I would a£k any one who knows whatgood 
 breeding means, is this language for a nobleman 
 or a porter ? But let the language be as it may, 
 is the fentiment juft ? To fay nothing of the 
 Methodifts, (although forae of them too are not 
 quite out of their fenfes) Could his Lordlhip 
 fhew me in England many more fenfible men 
 than Mr. Gambold and Mr. Okely? And yet 
 both of thefe were called Moravians. Or could 
 he point out many men of ftronger and deeper 
 P 2 underftanding 
 
C 328 ] 
 
 underdanding, than Dr. Horne and Mr. Wil- 
 iam Jones ? (If he could pardon them for believ- 
 ing the trinity !) And yet both ofthofe are Hut- 
 chinfonians. What pity is it, that fo ingenious a 
 man like many others gone before him, fhould 
 pafs fo peremptory a fentence in a caufe which 
 he does not underftand ! Indeed how could he 
 underhand it ? How much has he read upon the 
 queftion ? What fenfible Methodift, Moravian 
 or Hutchinfonian did he ever calmly converfe 
 with ? What does he know of them, but from 
 the Caricature’s drawn by bifhop Lavington, 
 or bifhop Warburton ? And did he ever give 
 himfelfthe trouble of reading the anfwers tothofe 
 warm, lively men ? Why fhould a good natured 
 and a thinking man, thus condemn whole bodies 
 of men by the lump ? In this I can neither read 
 the gentleman, the fcholar, nor the Chriftian. 
 
 Since the writing of this, Lord Lyttleton is no 
 more ; he is mingled with common dull. But as 
 his \ book furvives, there Hill needs an anfwer 
 to the unjuft reflexions contained therein. 
 
 Saturday, September the lft, I took a walk to 
 the top of that celebrated hill, Carn-brae. Here 
 are many monuments of remote antiquity, fcarce 
 to be found in any other part of Europe : Druid 
 altars of enormous fize, being only huge rocks, 
 ftrangely fufpended one upon the other : and 
 Rock-bafons, hollowed on the furface of the 
 rocks it is fuppofed, to contain the holy water. 
 
 It 
 
C 3 2 9 J 
 
 It is probable, thefe are at leafi: coeval with Pom- 
 pey’s Theatre, if not with the pyramids of Egypt. 
 And what are they the better for this ? Of what 
 confequence is it either to the dead or the liv- 
 ing, whether they have withftood the waftes of 
 time for three thoufand, or three hundred 
 years ? 
 
 The end of the Thirty-Second Volume; 
 
THE 
 
 CO NTENTS 
 
 Of the Thirty-second Volume. 
 
 Page 
 
 An ExtraR of the Rev. Mr. John WefleyV 
 Journal, Jrom May 27, 1765, to May 
 1 8, 1768. — — 3 
 
 An Exlrahl of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’j 
 Journal, from May 14, 1768, to Sept. 1, 
 1770. — — 178 
 
I>« 
 
 An .EXPLANATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 LATIN SENTENCES. 
 
 Vol. i. P. 306. 
 
 7 T jE C RhaJamanthus hacret duriffima rrgna, 
 Cajligotquc, audit que do/os, fubigitque f uteri 
 Qua quit apud fupcros, furto latatus inani , 
 
 Dijtulit in fcram commijfa piacula mortem. 
 
 O’er thefe drear realms ftern Rhadamanthu s reigns, 
 Detedfs each artful villain, and conftrains 
 To own the crimes, long veil'd from human fight : 
 In vain ! Now all fiand forth in hated light. 
 
 Vol. ii. P. 2gg. 
 
 Ut lippum p'tcta tabula ' , fomenta podagrtim. 
 
 Such help as pictures to fore eyes afford. 
 
 As heap’d up tables to their gouty Lord. 
 
 Vol. iv. P. 42. 
 
 Ejfodiuntur opes , irritamenta malorunj. 
 
 "Wealth is dug up, incentive to all ill. 
 
 Vol. x. P. 18. Ajforc ion pus 
 
 Quum mare , quttm tcllus , cxcelfaque regia caeli 
 Ardeat , tS mundi moles operofa laboret. 
 
 The Sea, the earth, the palace 'of the fkies, 
 
 And all the well- wrought fabrick of the world, 
 Shall per ifh in the all-confuming flame. 
 
 A 
 
ii Latin Sentences L’ranflated. 
 
 P. 22. 
 
 Manraf mentis gratiffimus error. 
 
 Let the pleafing dream remain. 
 
 Vol. -xiv. P. 13. 
 
 The Anima mundi, the Soul of the world, the 
 
 Valiam 
 
 Mens agitans molem tA magna fe corpore mifeens. 
 
 The all-informing foul 
 
 Which fpreads thro’ the vail mafs and moves the whole. 
 Vol. xv. P. 26. 
 
 IJcircn foliddm preebet tibi vcllere barbam Jupiter ? 
 Thinkeit thou, that God is mocked ? 
 
 P. 10. 
 
 Occidit miferos crambe repel it a. 
 
 They are furfeited with the dull repetition. 
 
 AEJluat infelix angujto limite mundi , 
 
 Ut b/evibies claufus Gyaris , parejatjue Scrip bo. 
 
 Frets at the narrow limits of the world, 
 
 As in a priion pent. 
 
 P. 27. 
 
 Jove fpake, and nodded with his fable brow. 
 
 And huge Olympus to his center (hook. 
 
 P. 114. 
 
 Alice tenditntur inancs 
 Sufpenfte ad ventos : alits fub gurgite vajlo 
 Infe Slum cluitur fcelus , ant exuritur igni ; 
 
 Dtnr. 
 
' Latin Sentences Tranflated. iil 
 
 Donee longa dies , exaHo temporis orhe 
 Concretam cxemit labcm , purumque reliqnit 
 jddtbcrcum fenfunt atque aurai Jtniplicis ignern. 
 
 Some to the piercing winds are ftretch’d abroad ; 
 
 Some plunged beneath the watry gulph : The fire 
 In Tome burns out the deep imprinted ftain : 
 
 Till the long courfe of flowly-rolling years 
 Has purg'd out every fpot* and pure remains 
 TIP ethereal Spirit, and Ample heavenly Fire. 
 
 P. it 6. 
 
 Tantutn hsec Religio potuit fuadere mahrum . 
 
 So much mifehief this Religion does ! 
 
 P. 141. 
 
 Scire vetim, verbo pretium, quotas arroget annus ? 
 Howoldmuftabook be, beforeit is good for anything? 
 
 P. 158, 
 
 7aciiitm Sylvas inter rrptare falubres , 
 
 Queer entem quicquid dignum J'apiente bonoque. 
 
 Creeping filent thro* the filVan lhades 
 Exploring what is wife and good in man. 
 
 Vol. 16. P. 103. 
 
 Qjialem commendcs etieim atque etiam afpice , ne mox 
 Jncutiant aliena tibi pcccata pudorem . 
 
 Beware whom you commend, left Tou ftioufd be bla- 
 med for the faults of another man. 
 
 P. 30 g. Solr/tos 
 
 Qui c apt at rifus hominnm, famamque dicacis. 
 
 One that affedls the Drodl, and loves to raife a Horfe- 
 
IV 
 
 Latin Sentences Tranjlated . 
 
 P. 514. 
 
 phiafi re lene ge/Ia. 
 
 As if you had carried your point. 
 
 Vol. xvii. P. 3^. 
 
 Tanquam tutus & in cute nojfes. 
 
 As if you knew 11s infide and out. 
 
 P- 53. 
 
 Tilt par villa res ejl , 
 
 Metiri fe quemque fuo modulo ac pec/e verum cjl. 
 
 You are not upon a level with Bifhop W- — n ; 
 Let every man know his own fize. 
 
 P. 66. & 89. 
 
 Quas nut incuria fudit 
 
 Jlut bumana parum cavit natura. 
 
 'i ■ • « 
 
 Such as efcaped my notice ; or fuch as may be pla- 
 ced to the account of humaii Infirmity. 
 
 P. 8;. 
 
 Ecchfue Seotices direp tie ac gcmentls Prejbyter. 
 
 A Prefbyter of the plundered and groaning Church 
 of Scotland. 
 
 Vol. 18. P. 119. 
 
 Gloria quantalilet , quid erit Ji gloria tantum ? 
 
 "What is glory, without Profit too ? 
 
 P. 130. • 
 
 Virgili i in tumulo , divini pratmia <vaiis , 
 
 Exp lie at en viridem laurca Ucta comam . 
 
 fW 
 
V 
 
 Latin Sentences Tranjlated. 
 
 Quid te defun-clum juvat bac ? Fclicior olim 
 Sub patulie fagi tegmine < vivus eras ! 
 
 See, she green Laurel rears her grateful head 
 O’er Virgil’s tomb ! But can this cheat' the Dead 
 Happier by far thou watt of old, when laid 
 Beneath thy fpreading Beech’s ample ihade. 
 
 P. 268. 
 
 JLab'itur fsf labetur in omne vdtilbilis avum. 
 
 It flows on, and will for e\-er flow. 
 
 Vol. xx. P. 267, 
 
 Ob patriam pngnando vulncra paj/i , 
 
 Spuique pii ■vates^ct Pboebo dign a locutl , 
 
 Invcntas aut qui vitatn excolucre per artes : 
 
 Thofe who died in fighting for their Country, thofe 
 who confecrated themfelves to the M-ufes, and thofe 
 who invented wfelul Arts. 
 
 P. 287. 
 
 Minim l 
 
 Utneque cetlce lupus qnenquam, ncque dente petit bos ! 
 
 Stran.ce ! 
 
 Wolves do not ufe their heels, nor Bulls their fieeth 1 
 Vol. xxii. P. 27. 
 
 In Jlipulam nreluti cum fiamma furcntibus aujlris 
 Incidit , aut rapidus montano jlnmine torrcns 
 JExiit , eppojitafqUe evicit gurgite moles. 
 
 As flames thro’ crackling Hubble pour along 
 Driven by impetuous winds, as rivers fwohi 
 By mountain torrents, bnrft o’er all their banks. 
 
 P. 130. 
 
 Cui<vis facilis rigid. i cenfura cachinni. 
 
 It is eafy to laugh at our neighbours. 
 
vi Latin Sentences T r anjlated. 
 
 P. 22J. 
 
 Si non infaniunt Jatis , infliga. 
 
 If they are not mad enough already,, pufh them on, 
 
 P. 224.. 
 
 Ne puerum coram populo Medea trucidet. 
 
 Let not Medea be introduced as killing her fon, in 
 the fight of the people. 
 
 P- 253- 
 
 Sed nunc non crat his incus. 
 
 There was no place for them here. 
 phto teneam no ul turn mutattfem Protea nodo ? 
 
 How fliall I hold one that is continually changing 
 his fl.ape ? 
 
 Vol. xxvi. P. jo. 
 
 Hci rnihi , quod nullis amor ejl mcdicabiiis her'bis t 
 Ah me ! not all my drugs this love can cure J 
 
 P. 90. 
 
 Miles emeritus. A Soldier paft fervice. 
 
 P. 228. 
 
 Shi a cura nitentes 
 
 Pajcere equos, eadem fequitur Jcl/urc repojios. 
 
 The fame Defires which they cherifhed on earth 
 remain in the world of fpirits. 
 
 Vol. xxvii, P. 
 
 Jigitur de vita et f anguine Tumi. Life is at flake. 
 
 Veftigin nulla rtlrorfnm There is no going back. 
 
Latin Sentences Lr {inflated vli. 
 
 P. *8- 
 
 Imponire Pclio OJfant 
 
 Scilicet, atqne OJJce frondofum involvcrc Olympian . 
 
 To heap Mountain upon Mountain, like the anti* 
 ent Giants, in order to lcale heaven. 
 
 | 
 
 P, 254. 
 
 Sire, turn cantus et Circes pocula nofti ? 
 
 Know’ll thou th’ enchanted cup, and Siren’s Seng ? 
 
 P. 2 $5. 
 
 Ibi omnis cjfuf us labor ! So all the labour’s lof! ! 
 
 P. 507. 
 
 Sincre munclum vadere ut vult , nant vult madcre. 
 
 To let the world go as it will : for it will go. 
 
 Vol. xxviii, P. 27. 
 
 Cui Pud or et 'Juftitia foror 
 Incorrupta F’des , Nudaque Veritas 
 dhiando uilum invenient parem ? 
 
 When will his like be found, for Modelly 
 Unblemilh’d Faithfulnefs, and naked Truth ? 
 
 P. 62. 
 
 Improvifum afpris vcliiti qui fentibus angueni Prejjit. 
 
 As one that has unawares trodden upon a inake. 
 
 P. 216. 
 
 Fnrtunati ambo ! Si qu'd mea pagina poffit 
 Nulla dies unquam memo ri mos eximet cento. 
 
 Long as ray Writings lhall your fame remain. 
 
viii Latin Sentences Tranjlated 
 
 Vol. xxix, P. 
 
 Cum frigida. par-vas 
 
 Pralcrct fpelunca demos , tgncmqut, iaremr.c 
 Et pecus et dominos communi cluude: et umbra. 
 
 The narrow cave a cold retreat affords, 
 
 And beafts and men fereeus with one common fhadc 
 
 Vol. XXX. P. 
 
 Te, Deus: intonji monies , te faxa loqucntur 
 Summa Dcum, dunt montis amat juga peudulus birenj, 
 Saxorumquc colit latcbrofa cunicuius antra. 
 
 This is a beautiful Phrafe on that veife in th 
 104th Pfalm, “ The high hills are a refuge ror th> 
 wild goats and lb are the ftony rocks for the conies.' 
 
 P. 54- 
 
 Sett te, Profcrpina , canum : 
 Pcrfonam capiti detrabet ilia tuo. 
 
 Death will deprive thee of thy borrow’d Hair. 
 Vol. xxxii, P. S6. 
 
 O fortunati nimium , bona Ji fua norint ! 
 
 Too happy, if their ha-ppinefs they knew ! 
 
 P. 155. 
 
 Projiccre ampullas et fefqu pcdaUa verba. 
 
 To lay alide big words that hav.e no determinate 
 meaning. 
 
 P. 204. 
 
 fhtid mea rejert P What is it to me ? 
 
 P, 228. 
 
 Turpe eft difficilcs babere ttuga t, 
 
 It is a lhame to take much pains about trifles. 
 
 INDEX, 
 
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 __ ====^ 
 
 LTrffxVatrctCis^tVctxttiVx&iivi i_mTr\^j^yrc jjv.y^ 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Vol. I. Page. 
 
 G ENERAL Preface 3 
 
 Preface to the Sermons 9 
 
 Sermon on Salvation by Faith 
 
 The Almoft Chriifian 32 
 
 — — — “ Awake thou that deeped/’ 4.6 
 
 Scriptural Chriflianity 6.7 
 
 Jufrification by Faith 94 
 
 • The Righteoufnefs of Faith 1 1.£ 
 
 “ Repent and believe the Gofpel” 13^ 
 
 • The Firll fruits of the Spirit 153 
 
 — 1 The Spirit of Bondage &of Adoption 17.2 
 
 The Witnefs of the Spirit 195 
 
 The Witnefs ot our own Spirit 236 
 
 • On Sin in Believers 257 
 
 The Repentance of Believers 27-3 
 
 The Great Affize 298 
 
 — — The Means of Grace — . 333 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 Sermon 011 The Circumcifion of the heart 
 — — The Great Priviledgeof thole that are 
 
 born of GOD 40 
 
 The Lord our Righteoufnefs 58 
 
 Difcour.es upon our Lords Sermon on the Mount 
 
 Matt, v. i — 4 80 
 
 • 5 — 9 106 
 
 10 — 12 134 
 
 — 13 — 16 162 
 
 ■ 17 2Q I 90 
 
It 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Difcourfes, &c. 
 Matt. Chap. vi. 
 
 Chap. vii. 
 
 I— 
 
 - 
 
 Page. 
 
 220 
 
 16—18 
 
 — 
 
 248 
 
 19—23 
 
 — 
 
 278 
 
 24—54 
 
 — 
 
 308 
 
 I 1 2 
 
 — 
 
 335 
 
 Voi. III. 
 
 Matt. Chap. vii. 13 — j.j. 
 1 3 — 10 
 
 3 
 
 18 
 
 21 — 2 7 
 
 Sermon on The Origin, Nature, Properties 
 Ufe of the Law 
 
 • The Law eltablilhed thro’ Faith 
 
 The Nature of Enrhuiiafm 
 
 . On Bigotry 
 
 - ■ ■ - Cathoiic Spirit 
 
 - Chriftian Perfection 
 
 ■ ■ ■ Wandring Thoughts 
 
 > Satan’s Devices 
 
 — - The Scripture Way of Salvation 
 
 - Original Sin 
 
 ■■■ — - The New Birth. — — 
 
 «»-■ '■ ■ ■ The Wildernefs State ■■■ 
 
 *— — Heavinefs thro’ temptation 
 
 and 
 
 35 
 
 53 
 
 77 
 
 it 2 
 
 *33 
 
 1-56 
 
 17S 
 
 215 
 
 232 
 
 2$2 
 
 2 7 l 
 
 29O 
 
 377 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 
 Sermon on Self-denial — . — 3 
 
 - — — The Cure of Evil'-fpeaking 22 
 
 The Ufe of Money 40 
 
 ■ The Good Steward — - 6r 
 
 - Preached before the Reformation Society 84 
 
 - on the Death or Mr. Whireneid 116 
 
 Advice to the Methodifts, with regard to Drefs 144 
 The Duties of Hufbands- and Waives — 164 
 
 Directions ter Children 218 
 
 Directions to Servants 224 
 
INDEX. 
 
 xu 
 
 Page. 
 
 An Extraft from Mr. Law’s Treatife on Chrif- 
 tian Perfedfion 
 
 C H A P. I. 
 
 Several important conliderations and directions 241 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Chriftianity requires a renouncing of the world, 
 
 and all worldly tempers 
 
 Chap. 
 
 III. 
 
 264 
 
 Chriftianity calleth all men to a date of felf- 
 
 denial and mortification. 287 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 Theneceffityof divine grace, another general 
 
 ground of felf-denial. 313' 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 The neceffity of divine grace, obligeth allChrif- 
 tians to a. conftant purity and holinefs of con- 
 verfat-ion : wherein is fhewn the great dan- 
 •ger and impiety of reading vain and imper- 
 tinent books. — —— 335 
 
 Vol. V. 
 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 Chriftians are called to a conftant flate of prayer 
 and devotion 3 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 All Chriftians are required to imitate the life 
 and example of Jefus Ciirift — — 1 
 
 Chap. VIII. 
 
 An exhortation to Chriftian Petle&ion 59 
 
 An ExtraCt from Mr. Law’s Serious Call to a 
 Holy Life 
 
 C H A P. I. 
 
 Concerning the nature and extent of Chriftian 
 
 devotion 62 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 An enquiry into the reafon why the generality 
 of Chriftians fall fo fliort of the holinefs and 
 devotion of Chriftianity > — - 75 
 
IV 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Chap. III. 
 
 Of the great danger and folly of not intending 
 to be as eminent as we can, in the practice 
 of all Chriftian virtues 
 
 Page. 
 
 81 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 We can pleafe God in no ftate or employment, 
 but by intending and devoting it all to his 
 
 glory 94 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 Perfons that are free from the neceffity of la- 
 bour and employments, are toconfider t'hem- 
 felves as devoted to God in a higher degree, iii 
 C hap VI. 
 
 Plow the imprudent ufe of an eftate corrupts all 
 the tempers, and fills the heart with poor 
 and ridiculous pafiions ; represented in the 
 
 character of Fiavia. 131 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 How the wife and pious ufe of an eftate carri- 
 eth us to all the virtues of the Chriftian 
 life ; represented in the character of Mi- 
 randa — — J40 
 
 Chap. VIII. 
 
 Shewing all orders ot men and women, of all 
 ages, are obliged to devote themfelves to 
 
 God 157 
 
 Chap. IX. 
 
 Shewing that great devotion fills our lives with 
 the greateft peace and happinefs that can be 
 
 enjoyed in this world 17^ 
 
 Chap. X. 
 
 The happinefs of a life wholly devoted unto 
 God, farther proved, from the vanity, and 
 ridiculous, poor enjoyments which they are 
 forced to take up with, who live according 
 to their own humours. This reprefented in 
 
 various characters 196 
 
 Chap. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 v 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. XI. 
 
 That not only a life ot vanity, or fenfuality, 
 but even the moli regular kind of life, that 
 is not governed by great devotion, fuffici- 
 ently fheus its miferies, its wants and emp- 
 tinefs to the eyes of all the world. This re- 
 prefented in various charadters — 213 
 
 Chap. XII. 
 
 Concern : ng that part of devotion which relates 
 to times and hours of prayer. Ot daily 
 early prayer jn the morning. How we may 
 improve our forms of prayer, and increafe 
 
 the fpirit of devotion 230 
 
 Chap. XIII. 
 
 Recommending devotion at nine o’clock in the 
 
 morning, called in feripture, the third hour 
 of the day. The fubjedtof thefe prayers may 
 
 be humility 257 
 
 Chap. XIV. - 
 
 Shewing how the education which men gene- 
 rally receive, makes the dodtrines of humili- 
 ty difficult to be pradtifed. The fpirit of a 
 better education reprefented in the character 
 
 of Paternus 278 
 
 Chap. XV. 
 
 Shewing how the method of educating daugh- 
 ters, makes it difficult forthem to enter into 
 the fpirit ot Chriftian humility. How mife- 
 rably they are injured and abufed by fuch an 
 education. The fpirit ot a better education, 
 reprefented in the character of Eufebia. 297 
 Chap. XVI. 
 
 Recommending devotion at twelve o’clock, cal- 
 led, in feripture, the iixth hour of the day : 
 This frequency of devotion, equally defirable 
 by all orders of people. Universal love is 
 recommended to be the fubjedt of prayer at 
 this hour, Ot interceffion, as an-adt of uni- 
 verfal love — qia 
 
 B 
 
VI 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. XVI L 
 
 Of the neceffity and benefit of intercsfiion, con- 
 fidered as an exercife of univerlal love. 
 
 How all orders of men are to interceed with 
 God for one another : how fuch interceflion 
 amends and reforms the hear t . — 550 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 
 An Extract of Mr. Law’s later Works. 
 
 The cafe of Reafon fairly llated, 
 
 The Introduction, firewing the llateofcontroverfy 30 
 Chap. I. 
 
 Enquiring, whether there be any thing in the 
 nature and condition of man, to oblige him 
 to think, that he is not to admit of any doc- 
 trines or inftitutions, as revealed from God, 
 but fuch as his own reafon can proveto be 
 neceffary from the nature of things. — 32 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Shewing from the relation between God and 
 man, that human reafon cannot be a compe- 
 tent judge of the fitnefs and reafonablenel's of 
 God’s proceedings with mankind, either as 
 to the time, or matter, or manner of an ex- 
 ternal revelation. — 82 
 
 Chap. III. 
 
 Shewing how far human reafon is able to judge 
 of the reafonablenefs, truth, and certainty of 
 divine revelation. — — 93 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 Of the Hate and nature of reafon, as it is in man ; 
 and how its perfection in matters of religion 
 is to be known. ■■ ■ 107 
 
INDEX. 
 
 vit 
 
 Chap. V. Page 
 
 Shewing that all the mutability of our tempers, 
 the diforders of our paflions, the corruption 
 of our hearts, all the reveries of the ima- 
 gination, ail the contradidlions and abfurdi- 
 ties that are to be found in human life, and 
 human opinions, are in effedt the mutabili- 
 ty, diforders, corruption, and abfurd'ities of 
 
 human reafon. 125 
 
 A ferious Anfvver to Dr. Trap 138 
 
 Animadverfions on his Reply 206 
 
 A Confutation of Bilhop Warburton’s Divine 
 
 Legation 2^9- 
 
 Vol. VII. 
 
 An Extraft from Mr. Law’s Spirit of Prayer. 
 
 Part I. Chap. I. 
 
 Treating of fome matters preparatory to the 
 
 Spirit of Praver — 2 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Difcovering the true way of turning to God, 
 and of finding the kingdom of heaven, the 
 riches of eternity, in our fouls. — 7 
 
 PART II. 
 
 The firft Dialogue — — 
 
 The fecond Dialogue 
 
 The third Dialogue — — 
 
 Spirit of Love — — 
 
 . Mr. Law’s Letters — 
 
 Addrefs to the Clergy — 
 
 ■ — — — The Chrifiian Pattern — 
 
 37 
 55 
 66 
 100 
 163 
 229 
 30 ■/ 
 
 Vol. VIII. 
 
 A Treatife on Chrifiian Prudence. 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 Of the end propofed by Chrifiian Prudence, 
 and the general means of obtaining it. 1 39 
 S 2 
 
V1U * 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 How far Chriftian Prudence is concerned jn 
 the manner of keeping God’s commandments i 74. 
 Chap. HI. 
 
 Of the fubordinate means that ferve to aflift us 
 in keeping the commandments of God 165 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 The conduft of a prudent Chfiftian, with re- 
 gard to the government of himfelt. 169 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 A perfuafive to the Rudy of Chriflian Prudence, 
 with fome advices relating to the practice 
 of it. — 176 
 
 Nicodemus : Or a Treatife on the Fear of Man. 194 
 
 Reflections on the conduct of Life, with a refe- 
 rence to Learning. 241 
 
 The Life of God in the foul of Man — 291 
 
 Vol. IX. 
 
 The manners of the ancient Chriftians. 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 Of the life of Chrift. — — 3 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Of the church at Jerufalem. 9 
 
 Chap. III. 
 
 The itate of the Heathens before their conrerfion 13 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 Of their prayer and ftudy of the fcripture 17 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 Of their fads, meals, modelly, and ferioufnefs. 20 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 Of their marriages, their union, and public 
 affemblies. — — — 23 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 Of their perfections — — 28 
 
 Chap. VIII. 
 
 Of their care of the poor lick, their hofpiraliry, 
 and patience. ' — - — 
 
 5-5 
 
INDEX. ix 
 
 Page. 
 
 The doctrine of Salvation, Faith, and Good 
 Works ; extracted from the homilies of the 
 church of England. — — 37 
 
 An Abridgement ot the Pilgrim’s Progrefs 54 
 A Word or Advice to Saints and Sinners 130 
 
 Chriftian Letters by Jofeph Alleine. 14S 
 
 A Word to a Sabbath-Breaker — 276 
 
 • a Swearer — • — 281 
 
 a Drunkard — — 283 
 
 an unhappy Woman — rqo 
 
 a Smuggler — r- ■* — 295 
 
 a condemned MalefaCior — 304 
 
 in Seafon : Or Advice to an Englifh- 
 
 man — — 310 
 
 a Proteftant — — 319 
 
 a Freeholder — 334 
 
 Advice to a Soldier — — 338 
 
 Vol. X. 
 
 Serious thoughts occafioned by the late Earth- 
 
 at Lifbon 3 
 
 A Collection of Forms of Prayer for every Day 
 
 in the week, 26 
 
 A Collection of Prayers for Families — 83 
 
 An Addrefs to the Clergy 124 
 
 A fnort account of the Death of Tho. Hitchens 
 A Ihort Account of the Death of Sam. Hitchens 169 
 A fliort Account of the Life and Death ot Na- 
 thanael Othen. — 7 • — 1S2 
 
 Some Account of the Life and Death of Mat- 
 thew Lee. — • — 1 <58 
 
 ExtraCt of the Life and Death of Mr. John 
 
 jane way 219 
 
 Chap. I. 
 
 An account of him from his childhood, to the 
 
 fb ven teen th year of his age. 219 
 
 B 3 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Of his converfion and carriage when fellow of 
 
 the college. 222 
 
 C^p. III. 
 
 His great love to prayer — — 228 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 His return to King’s-colLege after his father's 
 death and his temptations. — 23 2 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 An account of the later part of his life. 237 
 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 His lalt {icknefs and death — > — 240 
 
 Extract of the Life and Death of Mr. Thomas 
 
 Haliburton 236 
 
 Part I. Chap. I. 
 
 A Ihort account of his birth and life, till ten 
 
 years of age. 260 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 An account of the next two years of his life. 264 
 Chap. III. 
 
 Of the revival of his convictions, and their ef- 
 fects till 1690. 267 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 Of the increafe of his convictions, from Au- 
 tumn 1690, till May 1693. 272 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 Of the liraits he was in, and the courfe he took 
 for relief, from May 1693, to Auguft 1696. 273 
 Part II. Chap. I. 
 
 Of the progrefs of his convictions and tempta- 
 
 tions. 2S3 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Of his deliverance from thefe temptations. 293 
 Part III. Chap. I. 
 
 Of the pleafure of this date t the miltakes at- 
 tending it, and the way of their difcovery. 903 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Of his frelh firugglings w ith fin ; its victories ; 
 and the caufe of them, and God’s goodnefs 
 with refpeCt to this trial. • ■ ■ » 930 
 
INDEX. 
 
 xi 
 
 Page. 
 
 An extraft of the life and death of Mr. Thomas 
 Haliburton. 
 
 Part IV. Chap. I. 
 
 Of his entrance upon the miniitry, and beha- 
 viour at Ceres. . — — 333 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Of his marriage, and conduit in his family, 341 
 Chap. III. 
 
 Of his removal to St. Andrews. — 348 
 
 Vol. XI. 
 
 Part IV. Chap. IV. 
 
 Of his death — — — ■ 3 
 
 An extraft of the life of Monfieur de Renty 
 Chap. I. Of his marriage, birth, and general 
 
 way oflife 36 
 
 . II. His humility — — 43 
 
 III. His felf-denial and mortification 5$ 
 
 IV. His patience • — 63 
 
 V. His faith — — 71 
 
 ■ VI. His hope — 7£ 
 
 VII. His love of God — 77 
 
 VIII. Selt. I. His love of man in general 84 
 
 Sect. II. His charity to the poor 90 
 
 • III. His charity to the fick 9^ 
 
 IV. His zeal for the falvation of his 
 
 neighbour — — 97 
 
 Chap. IX. His outward behaviour and conduft 
 of bttfinefs. — — 112 
 
 Chap. X. His death — — 120 
 
 An ext raff from the life and death of Tho. Walfh- 
 The introduction — — 129 
 
 Chap. I. Of his birth and education 132 
 
 * II. Of his religion, and the druggie which 
 
 he found between nature and grace, till the 
 fifteenth year ot his age. - 133 
 
INDEX. 
 
 xii 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. III. Giving a farther account of him : the 
 corruptions he ilruggled againil, and the 
 means he ufed to l'ubdue them. — 140 
 
 Chap. IV. Of his forfaking the church of Rome 143 
 — • V. Some further account of his progress 
 in the way of life, with other reafons of his 
 conduct, in regard of the church of Rome. 1^7 
 Chap. VI. Of fome particulars previous to his 
 Converfion • — — 161 
 
 Chap. VII. Giving a farther account of his foul 
 particularly of his deep convictions 166 
 
 Chap. VIII. Of his finding reft to his foul 174 
 
 • IX. Of the confirmation or his foul in the 
 
 grace of God, and the happy effects which 
 
 Chap. X. His employment among his ehriilian 
 brethren, and the treatment he met with 
 
 Chap. XI. His providential appointment to la- 
 bour for the good of his neighbour, by 
 
 Chap. I. Of his entire application to the preach- 
 ing the gofpel — — 200 
 
 II. He goes into the provinces of Leinfter 
 
 &Connought, and preaches the word tb re 205 
 — — III. Some further account of the troubles 
 be met with, on account of preaching the 
 gofpel. — — — 2cS 
 
 »■ ■ IV. A fhort account of the endeavours of 
 the Romifh clergy, to prevent his ufetulnefs 
 among their people — — 214 
 
 • V. He goes to England and labours there 225 
 
 VI. His love to fouls, and zeal for pro- 
 moting the glory of God. ~ 229 
 
 ■ VII. His application ro fiudy. love to the 
 
 holy Fcriptures, improvement which he 
 made thereof — — 2 3 : 
 
 it produced in him 
 
 from the world 
 
 preaching the gofpel. 
 
 Chap. XII. He begins to preach. 
 
 PART II. 
 
I N D E X. 
 
 xui 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. VIII. His manner of preaching 246 
 
 IX. Of his frequent ficknels, the exerci- 
 
 les of his mind therein, and the improvement 
 
 which he made thereof 261 
 
 . X. Of his temptations, conflicts, and ex- 
 
 ercifes of foul — — 272 
 
 XI. His communion with God 281 
 
 • XII. Some further particulars, relating to 
 
 the head of his communion with God. 295 
 
 PART III. 
 
 Chap. I. An extraH from Mr. Thomas Wallh’s 
 diary, relating chiefly, to the experience of 
 his own foul, in his courfe ot walking with 
 
 God 307 
 
 II. The extraft from his diary continued 32^ 
 
 III. The fame continued — 34a 
 
 Vol. XII. 
 
 An extraifl of the life and death of Tho. Walfli. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 Chap. IV. Of his laft ficknefs — 3 
 
 Anextra&of the life of the Rev. David Brainerd. 
 Part I. From his birth to the time when he be- 
 gan to devote himfelt to the ftudy of divinity 27 
 Part II. From the time that he began to devote 
 himfelf to the lfudy of divinity, till he was 
 examined and licenfed to preach. 4£ 
 
 Part III. From the time of his being licenfed to 
 preach, till he was appointed miffionary to 
 the Indians. — “59 
 
 Part IV. From the time of his being appointed 
 millionary, to his entrance on his million 
 among the Indians at Kaunaumeck. 70 
 
1NDE X. 
 
 xiv 
 
 Page 
 
 Part V. From his fuA beginning to inftruCt the 
 Indians at Kaunaumeck, to his ordination. 79 
 Part VI. From his ordination, till he began to 
 preach to the Indians at Crofweekfung 1 20 
 Part VII. From his firfl: beginning to preach to 
 the Indians at Crofweekfung, till he returned 
 from his laft journey to Sufquahannah 177 
 Part VIII. After his return from his lafljourney 
 to Sufquahannah, untill his death 509 
 
 Vol. XIII. 
 
 Letters written by Mr. Brainerd — 3 
 
 Some Reflections and Obfervations on the pre- 
 ceding Memoirs of Mr. Brainerd 20 
 
 An ExtraCt from Mary Gilbert’s Journal 37 
 
 An ExtraCt from Elizabeth Harper’s Journal 129 
 A fhort Account of Ann Johnfon — 188 
 
 A fhort Account of Ann Rogers — 199 
 
 A fhort Account of Mary Langfon — 212 
 
 A fhort Account of Hannah Richardfon 213 
 
 A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wefley, by a 
 Gentlewoman — — 234 
 
 An ExtraCt of Mrs. L * * *’s Letters 254 
 
 Vol. XIV. 
 
 ExtraCt of Mrs. L***’s Letters (continued) 3 
 Meditations upon fome texts of Scripture 18 
 
 Letters written by JaneCooper — 38 
 
 Some account of her lire and death 41 
 
 Some account of the experience of E. J. 93 
 
 An earnelt Appeal to Men of Reafon and Re- 
 ligion 104 
 
 A farther Appeal to Men of Reafon and Reli- 
 gion. Part I. 107 
 
INDEX. 
 
 xv 
 
 Vol. XV. 
 
 Page. 
 
 A farther appeal to men of reafon and religion 
 Part II. — — — 3 
 
 A plain account of the people called Methodifts 194. 
 The nature, delign, and general rules of the 
 United Societies — — 231 
 
 Minutes of Come late converfations between the 
 Rev. Mr. Wefleys and others 237 
 
 Minutes ot fome late converfations, between the 
 Rev. Mellieurs John and Charles Wefley, 
 and others — — 277 
 
 The charatfter of a Methodift — 359 
 
 A fhort hillory of Methodifm. — » 374 
 
 Vol. XVI. 
 
 Advice to the people called Methodifts — < 3 
 
 The Principles of a Methodift — — 17 
 
 An Anfwer to the Rev. Mr. Church’s remarks 
 on ihe Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s laft journal, 
 in a letter to that gentleman — 41 
 
 The principles of a Methodift farther explained ." 
 occaftoned by the Rev. Mr. Church’s l'econd 
 letter to Mr. Wefley : in a fecond letter to 
 that gentleman — — 202 
 
 A letter to the Right Rev. the Lord Biftiop of 
 London : occaftoned by his Lordfhip’s late 
 charge to the clergy — 222 
 
 A letter to a Clergyman — 247 
 
 A letter to the Author of The enthufiafm of the 
 Methodifts and Papifts compared 254 
 
 A fecond letter to the author of the enthufiafm 
 of the Methodifts and Papifts compared 277 
 
XVI 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Vol. XVII. 
 
 Page. 
 
 A fecond Letter to the Lord Biffiop of Exeter. 3 
 A letter to the Rev. Mr- Potter — 10 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Dr. Free — 23 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Mr. Downes, occnfioued by 
 a late fradt intitled, J1 'Icthodifm explained, and 
 expofcd. — — — 31 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Dr. Horne, — 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Dr. Rutherford. 87 
 
 A narrative of the late work of God, at and near 
 Northampton, in Nevv-England. 110 
 
 The diftinguifring marks of a work of the Spirit 
 of God. — — — 18S 
 
 Thoughts concerning the revival of religion in 
 Netv-England. — — 24.7 
 
 Vol. XVIII. 
 
 A brief account of the trial at Glocefter. — 3 
 
 Mo dern Chriftianity ; exemplified at Wednef- 
 
 bury, and other adjacent places in Stafibrd- 
 flfire. — ■ — — — — 16 
 
 The cafe of John Nelfon. — — 52 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Mr. Daily of Corke 99 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton, 
 occafioned by his Free Enquiry. 140 
 
 A letter to the Right Rev. the Lord Bilhap of 
 Glocefier : occafioned by his traift on the 
 office and operations of the Holy Spirit. 276 
 
 Vol. XIX. 
 
 A letter to a Roman Catholic — — 3 
 
 A Roman Catechifm ; with a Reply thereto 15 
 
 A Prefervative againlt unfettled Notions in Re- 
 ligion — ■ — — 110 
 
INDEX. xvii 
 
 Page. 
 
 An extract of a fhort and eafy Method, with 
 the Deifts. — — — ut 
 
 A treatife concerning the Godhead of Jefus 
 Chrilt. — — — 126 
 
 The advantage of the members of the church of 
 England, over thofe of the church of Rome 169 
 An extract of a letter to the Rev. Mr. Law, oc- 
 cafioned by his late writings — 182 
 
 A letter to aperfon lately joined with the Qua- 
 kers, in anfwer to a letter wrote by him 256 
 A treatife on baptifm — — 27^ 
 
 A letter to the Rev. Mr. Toogood of Exeter, 
 occafioned by his dilTent from the church of 
 
 England, fully juflified 29S 
 
 Thoughts upon Infant Baptifm — 307 
 
 Serious Thoughts concerning Godfathers and 
 Godmothers — — 335 
 
 Vol. XX. 
 
 The feripture dodtrine ofpredeftination, election, 
 and reprobation — — 3 
 
 An extradi from a fhort view of the difference 
 between the Moravian Brethren (fo called ) 
 and the Rev Mr. John and Charles Wefley 24 
 An extradi from a dialogue between an Antino- 
 
 mian and his Friend. — — >29 
 
 A dialogue between a Predeftinarian and his 
 Friend — — — 43 
 
 Free-Grace : a fermon 56 
 
 Seiious confiderationsconcerningthe dodlrines of 
 eledtion and reprobation — 83 
 
 Serious confiderations on abfolute predeftination 97 
 Serious thoughts upon the perfeverance of the 
 faints — — lag 
 
 Predeftination calmly confidered. 1^4 
 
 The confequence proved 251 
 
 Thoughts on the imputed righteoufnefs of Chrift 2 59 
 
 A blow at the root : or, Chrift {tabbed in the 
 houfe of his friends 
 
 C 
 
xvm 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 A fuflicient anfwer to letters to the author of 
 Theron and Afpafio. — — • 276 
 
 An extradf ot two difcourfes on the conflagration 
 anti renovation of the world — 290 
 
 Vol. XXI. 
 
 The dodtrine of original fln Parti. — ? 
 
 Part II. — — — 81 
 
 Part III. An anfwer to Dr. Taylor’s fupplement 212 
 Of imputed guilt — — ■ ii. 
 
 Sedt. II. Of the nature and defign of our afflic- 
 tions and mortality 217 
 
 Sedt. III. The arguments taken from the cala- 
 mities and finfulnefs of mankind conlidered 221 
 Sedl. IV. The confequences ot the doctrine of 
 
 original fin 253 
 
 Sedt. V. A general argument taken from what 
 God has declared concerning mankind, at the 
 relforation of the world after the deluge 236 
 Sedt. VI. The notion of Adam’s being a federal 
 head, or reprelentative of mankind, con- 
 
 fidered 24.2 
 
 Sedt. VII. Of the formation of our nature in the 
 
 womb 247 
 
 Sedt. VIII. Of original Righteoufnefs 254 
 
 Part IV. Extradt from Dr. Watts and Mr. Heb- 
 
 den. 277 
 
 Part V. 354 
 
 The dodtrine of imputed fin and righteoufnefs. 374 
 Part VI. The dodtrine of original fin explained 
 and vindicated — . — 3S^ 
 
 Part VII. An Evtradt from Mr. Boftan. 417 
 
 Vol. XXII. 
 
 Free thoughts on the prefent flate of public affairs 3 
 
 Thoughts upon liberty 38 
 
 Thoughts concerning the origin of power 59 
 
INDEX, 
 
 xix 
 
 Page. 
 
 Some remarks on Mr. Hill’s review of all the doc- 
 trines taught by Mr. John Wefley 72 
 
 Extract of Mr. Baxter’s aphorifms of j unification 13 1 
 A treatife on j unification ; extracted from Mr. 
 
 John Goodwin — *— 193 
 
 Vol. XXIII. 
 
 A treatife on juftification. Part II. — 3 
 
 Reafons againft a reparation from the Church 
 of England — • — — 116 
 
 The Chriltian facrament and facrifice — 14.1 
 
 ExtraCt from a treatife concerning religious 
 
 affections — — — 177 
 
 Some Remarks on Mr. Hill’s Farrago Double- 
 diftilled — — — 280 
 
 A fhort account of John Diilon — 334 
 
 Vol. XXIV. 
 
 •A plain account of Chrifiian Perfection — 3 
 
 InftruCtions for Chrilliaus — — 123 
 
 Chrifiian Reflections, tranflated from the 
 French — — — 172 
 
 InftruCtions for members of religious focieties, 
 tranflated from the French — 233 
 
 Thoughts on a Angle Life — ~ 232 
 
 A letter to a friend concerning Tea 264 
 
 The Defideratum ; or EleClricity made eafy 283 
 
 Vol. XXV. 
 
 Primitive Phyfic ; or, an eafy and natural way 
 of curing moll difcafes — 3 
 
 Advices with refpeCt to health, extracted from a 
 
 late author ■ 130 
 
 Chap. I. Of the ufualcaufes of popular maladies 137 
 
XX INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Chap. II. Of the caufes which aggravate dif- 
 
 eafes i6z 
 
 III. Of the means that ought to be ufed 
 
 at the beginning of difeafes ; and of the diet 
 in acute difeafes — — • J70 \ 
 
 Chap. IV. Of an inflammation of the lungs 180 ■ 
 
 V. Of the pleurify 19S j 
 
 VI. Of the difeafes of the throat 202- 
 
 VII. Of colds — — 209 
 
 VIII. Of the difeafes of the teeth 214 
 
 IX. Of the apoplexy — 218 
 
 X. Of the violent influence, or ftroke of 
 
 the fun 22^ 
 
 XI. Of the rheumatifm — > 230 
 
 XII. Of the bite of a mad dog 240 
 
 XIII. Of the fmall-pox 247 
 
 XIV. Or'themeafles 260 
 
 XV. Of the burning fever — 265 
 
 XVI. Of putrid fevers — 270 
 
 XVII. Of malignant fevers 277 
 
 XVIII. Of intermitting fevers 283 
 
 XIX. Of the Erifipelas, and bites of ani- 
 mals 292, 
 
 XX. Of inflammations of the breafl, and 
 
 of falfe and bilious pleurifies — 298 
 
 XXL Of colics . 303 
 
 XXII. Of the iliac paflion, and the chole- 
 ra morbus — 31$ 
 
 . XXIII. Of the diarrhoea — 320 
 
 XXIV. Of the dyfentery — 322 
 
 . * XXV. The treatment of difeafes peculiar 
 
 to women — ; — 328 
 
 XXVI. Direct ions concerning children 343 
 
 • XXVII. Directions with refpedf to drown- 
 ed perfons 357 
 
 XXVIII. Of fubftances flopt between 
 
 the mouth and the ftomach — 362 
 
 XXIX. Of external diforders, and fuch as 
 require chirurgical applications. — 3T* 
 
 — — XXX. Of fwoonings — 399 
 
INDEX. 
 
 xxi 
 
 Page. 
 
 XXXI. Of remedies by way of prevention 427 
 
 Table of the prefcriptions and remedies referred 
 to in this treatii'e. — — - 436 
 
 Vol. XXVI. 
 
 An extraCt from Dr. Cadogan’s difiertation on 
 the gout, and all chronic difeafes — 3. 
 
 A Ihort Englifh grammar — — 53 
 
 Directions concerning pronunciation and gelture 67 
 
 Journal I. — An extraCt of the Rev. Mr. John 
 Wefley’s Journal from his embarking for 
 Georgia, 061 . 14, 17 3$, to his return to 
 London, Feb. 1, 1737-8. — 83 
 
 Journal II. — An extract of the Rev. Mr. John 
 Weiley’s Journal, from Feb. 1, 1 737-8, to his 
 ieturn from Germany — 2.42 
 
 Vol. XXVIL 
 
 An extraCt of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s jour- 
 nal, from Aug. 12, 1738, to Nov. 1, 1739. 3 
 
 Au extraCt of the Rev. Mr. John Welley's jour- 
 nal, from Nov. 1, 1739, to Sept. 3, 1741. 162 
 
 Vol. XXVIII. 
 
 An extraCt of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s jour- 
 nal, from Sept. 3, 1741. to OCt. 27, 1743. 3 
 
 An extraCt of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s jour- 
 nal, from OCt. 27, 1743, to Nov. 17, 1746. 189 
 
 Vol. XXIX. 
 
 ExtraCt of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from Nov. 25, 1746, to July 20, 1749. 3 
 
 ExtraCt of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from July 20, 1751, to October 28, 1754. 184 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Vol. XXX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Extra&of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from Feb. x6, 1755, to June 16, 1758. 3 
 
 Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from June 17, 1758, to May 5, 1760. 222 
 
 Vol. XXXI. 
 
 Extraft of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from May 6. 1760, to 0 >ff. 28, 1762. 3 
 
 Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from Oft. 29, 1762, to May 25, 176J. 205 
 
 Vol. XXXII. 
 
 Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 from May 27, 1765, to May 18, 1768. 3 
 
 Extratt of the Rev. Mr. John Wefley’s Journal, 
 fromMayj8, 1768, to Sept, x, 1770. 178 
 
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