Wesley Corpus

Bishop ; who has indeed won the hearts of the people in general by his courteous and obliging behaviour. I heard agood sermon in the church at Carmar- then, (being the Assize sermon,) on, " There is no power but of God." In the evening I preached in the market-place, to, I think, the largest congregation I ever saw in Wales. Thurs- day, 26. On the road I read over Voltaire's Memoirs of himself. Certainly never was amore consummate coxcomb ! But even his character is less horrid than that of his royal hero ! Surely so unnatural a brute never disgraced athrone before ! Cedite, Romani Catamiti ! Cedite, Graii ! A monster that madeit a fixed ruleto let no woman and no Priest enter his palace; thatnot only gloried in the constant practice of Sodomy himself, butmade it free for all his subjects ! What a pity that his father Ye Catamites among the Greeks and Romans, concede to this wretch the palm of criminality.-EDIT . 288 REV. J. WESLEY'S Sept. 1781. had not beheaded him in his youth, and saved him from all this sin and shame ! In the evening I preached in the Town-Hall at Cardiff, and showed the scriptural meaningof that much-mistaken word, "A Christian." Friday, 27. I preached at Newport. I hardly know such another place ; the people hear, and hear, and are as much moved as the benches they sit upon. I spoke as strong as I possibly could, on, "Awake, thou that sleepest; " and I judged, from the number who attended at five in the morning, that it was not all lost labour. Being informed the boat would pass at eight, we hastened to the New-Passage : But we were time enough; for it did not set out till past six in the evening. However, we got into the boat about seven, and before nine reached Bristol. -Dr. Coke, Mr. Whatcoat, and Mr. Vasey, came down from London, in order to embark for America. Wed. SEPTEMBER 1.-Being now clearinmyownmind, I took a step which I had long weighed inmy mind, and appointed Mr. Whatcoat and Mr. Vasey to go and serve the desolate sheep in America. Thursday, 2. I added to them three more, which, I verily believe, will be much to the glory of God.