Wesley Corpus

It ends thus : ** Ahout a quarter before six the next morning, after Unng qaiet a while, she broke out, * Peace be unto thee ;' (her husband;) " peace be unto this house ; the peace of God is come to my soul ; I know that my Redeemer liveth.^ And for several days her mouth was filled with his praise, and her talk was wholly of his wondrous works." Had not these words been left out, neither could this have passed for an instance of despair. Though still I do not know but it might have stood for an instance of confusion, &c. I must not forget that this was cited at first as a proof of my enthusiasm ; as an instance of a private revelation, *' which," you say, " I seem to paj great credit to, -- representing the conjectures of a woman, whose brain appears to have been too much heated, as if they had been owing to a paiticular and miraculous spirit of prophecy." {Remarks^ p. 64.) I answered, " Descant, sir, as you please on this enthusiasm ; 00 the credit I paid to this private revelation ; ard my representing the conjectures of this brain-sick woman as owing to a miraculous power of the Spirit of prophecy : and when you have done, I vnil desire you to read the passage once more ; where you will find ray express words are, introducing this account : • Sun. 1 1 . I met with a surprising instance of the power of the devil.' Such was the credit I paid to this revelation! AU which I ascribe to the Spirit of God is, the enabling her to strive aninst the power of the devil, and at length restoring peace to her soul." (Jjitirer, p. 288.) I was in hopes you had done with this instance. But I am disappointed : for in your Second Letter I read thus :-- -