Wesley Corpus

I came to Leeds, preached at five, and at eight met the society ; after which the mob pelted us with dirt and stones great part of the way home. The congregation was much larger next evening ; and so was the mob at our return, and likewise in higher spirits, being ready to knock out all our brains for joy that the duke of Tuscany was emperor. What a melancholy consideration is this! that the bulk of the English nation will not suffer God to give them the blessings he would; because they would turn them into curses. He cannot, for instance, give them success against their enemies ; for they would tear their own countrymen in pieces: he cannot trust them with victory, lest they should thank him by murdering those that are quiet in the land. On Saturday and Sunday I preached at Armley, Birstal, and Leeds, and n Monday, 16, rode to Osmotherly. I saw the poor remains of the old chapel on the brow of the hill, as well as those of the Carthusian monastery, (called Mount Grace,) which lay at the foot of it. The walls of the church, of the cloister, and some of the cells, are tolerably entire ; and one may still discern the partitions between the little gardens, one of which belonged to every cell. Who knows but some of the poor, superstitious monks, who once served God here according to the light they had, may meet us, by and by, in that house of God, ' not made with hands, eternal in the heavens 2" ; About five we came to Newcastle, in an acceptable time We found the generality of the inhabitants in the utmost consternation ; news being just arrived, that, the morning before, at two o'clock, the Pretender had entered Edinburgh. A great concourse of people were with us in the evening, to whom I expounded the third chapter of Jonah; insisting particularly on that verse, '¢ Who can tell, if God will return, and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not ?" The mayor (Mr. Ridley) summoned all the householders of the town to meet him at the Town Hall; and desired as many of them as were willing, to set their hands to a paper, importing that they