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once again, to try if we could yet come to any agreement: but O, what an interview was there! He seriously told me he was going to sell his living ; only the purchaser did not seem quite willing to come up to his price. He would fain have proved to me the lawfulness of doing this; and in order thereto he averred roundly, 1. That no honest man can officiate as minister in the Church of England. 2. That no man can, with a good conscience, join in the prayers of the Church; "because," said he '"' they are all full of horrid lies." A woman came to me from Deptford, sent (as she said) from God. I gave her the hearing : and she spoke great words and true. But I remembered, " Judge nothing before the time." I went with Mr. Ingham to Islington, purposely to talk with Mr. Molther. But they said, he was so ill, he could not be spoken to. In the evening I went to Fetter-lane, and plainly told our poor, confused, shattered society, wherein they had erred from the faith. It was as I feared: they could not receive my saying. However, I am clear from the blood of these men. A great part of our society joined with us in prayer, and kept, I trust, an acceptable fast unto the Lord. My brother set out for Bristol. At six I preached in Mary-le-bone Fields, (much against my will, but I believed it was the will of God,) "repentance and remission of sins." All were quiet, and the far greater part of the hearers seemed deeply attentive. Thence went to our own society of Fetter-lane : before whom Mr. Ingham (being to leave London on the morrow) bore a noble testimony for the ordinances of God, and the reality of weak faith. But the short answer was, ' You are blind, and speak of the things you know not." We discovered another snare of the devil. The woman of Deptford had spoke plain to Mr. Humphreys, ordering him not to preach, to leave off doing good, and, in a word, to be still. We talked largely with her, and she was humbled in the dust, under a deep sense of the advantage Satan had gained over her.