Wesley Corpus

we "must do to be saved." One of our company seemed a little offended when I had done, at "a vile fellow, notorious all over the country, for cursing, swearing, and drunkenness ; though he was now grey-headed, being near four-score years of age." He came to me, and catching me hold by the hands, said, " Whether thou art a good or a bad man, I know not; but I know the words thou speakest are good. I never heard the like in all my life. O that God would set them home "pon my poor soul!' He then burst into tears, so that he could speak no more. I rode to Nottingham again, and at eight preached at the market-place, to an immense multitude of people, on, "' The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live." I saw only one or two who behaved lightly, whom I immediately spoke to; and they stood reproved. Yet, soon after, a man behind me began aloud to contradict and blaspheme ; but upon my turning to him, he stepped behind a pillar, and in a few minutes diappeared. In the afternocn we returned to Markfield. The church was so excessive hot, (being crowded in every corner,) that I could not, without difficulty, read the Evening service. Being afterward informed that abundance of people were still without, who could not possibly get into the church, I went out to them, and explained that great promise of our Lord, "1 will heal their backslidings : I will love them freely." In the evening expounded in the church, on her who " loved much, because she had much forgiven."