FEB. 1, Friday

 

4 Prayed, letters, class; 8 tea, conversed, class; 1 on business, dinner; 2 at brother Wo[o]ll[ey]’s; 2 class; 4.30 at brother Sh[-]well’s, class, tea, conversed, prayer; 6 prayed, A. J. [cipher]*; 7.30 writ narrative, supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 2

 

5.30 On business; 6 class, tea, class; 11 letters; 1 dinner, conversed, letters; 4 prayed, walk; 5 tea, conversed; 6 prayers, Lu. i. 70, etc., communion, coach, supper, Mr. Colb[-]; 8.15 Pen[ry], on business; 9.30.

 

Sunday 3

 

   4 Prayed, letters; 8 the preachers; 9.30 prayers, Heb. x. 31! communion; 1 dinner, conversed, prayer; 2.30 

 

            sleep, prayed; 3 the leaders; 4 tea, prayed; 5 prayers, I Cor. xiv. 3! society, within; 8 supper, 

 

            conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 4

 

 4 Prayed, Heb. iv. 9, select society; 7 class, tea, class; 12 select society, communion, dinner; 2 class; 5 

 

         tea, conversed, prayed; 6.15 I Cor. xiv. 3! supper, the leaders, on business, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 5

 

4 Prayed, letters, prayed; 6 class, tea, class; 1 dinner, conversed; 2 class; 5 Westm[inste]r, tea, conversed; 6.15 class, coach, supper, within, on business, prayer; 9.30.

 

Wednesday 6

 

 4 Prayed, writ narrative, class, tea, class; 2 dinner, coach, Brentford; 5 tea, conversed, prayed; 6.30 Heb. 

 

         ix. 25! class! at brother Blake’s,              supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Thursday 7

 

  4 Prayed; 6 Heb. iv. 9, chaise; 8 at brother Bate’s, tea, conversed, prayer; 10 at Mr. [-], writ society; 2 

 

           dinner, conversed, society; 4.30 tea, conversed, prayer; 6.30 2 Cor. viii. 9; 7 class; 8.30 supper, 

 

           conversed, prayer; 9.45.

 

Friday 8

 

 4 Prayed, writ society; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 walk; 10 class; 1.30 dinner, walk; 3 Lambeth, class, tea, prayed; 6.30 Gal. vi. 14, society, supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 9

 

4 Prayed, letters; 6 Lu. i. 72, the leaders, tea, writ society; 1 at brother Du.’s, dinner, society; 4 prayed, tea, conversed; 6 2 Cor. v. I, etc.; 8 supper, Pen[ry ] on business; 9.45.

 

Sunday 10

 

4 Prayed, letters, coach, Chapel; 9.30 prayer, Matt. xxv. 34; 12 com­munion; 1 dinner, sleep; 3 the leaders; 3.30 prayers, 2 Cor. vi. I, tea; 5 society, coach, society, prayed, supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 11[1]

 

4 Prayed, Heb. vi. I, select society, letters; 8 tea, within, writ society; 1.30 at Mr. Clul[ow’s]; 2 dinner, 

 

        conversed, prayer, on business, coach; 5 Wandsw[orth], tea, prayed; 6.30 Heb. x. 31! society,

 

supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 12

 

4 Prayed, writ narrative; 6 I Cor. ix. 24! tea, conversed, coach; 9 at home, writ society; 1 coach; 2 Deptf[ord], at Mr. Do[rnford’s], dinner, class, tea, class; 6.30 Heb. x. 35! society, at P. Liev[re’s],

 

        supper, conversed, prayer; 10.

 

Wednesday 13

 

4 Prayed, letters; 7.30 tea, conversed, prayer, coach; 9 at home, society;     1 at sister Key[sall’s], dinner, conversed; 2 prayer; 3 walk, coach; 4.30 Stratf[ord], writ society, tea, conversed, prayer; 6 Class.;

 

6.30 Heb. x. 31! [-] prayed; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

­Thursday 14

 

4 Prayed, writ class; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, class; 1 dinner; 2 on business, walk, coach, walk; 5 at brother Teag., tea, within; 6 Rom. viii. 34, class, walk; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30 Com­munion, in talk, sleep; 10.

 

Friday 15

 

4.15 Prayed, writ society, tea, prayed, walk; 9.30 at home, writ society; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3.30  

 

             writ society; 5 tea, conversed, prayed, society; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 16

 

4 Prayed, writ society, tea, conversed, prayer, writ society [cipher]*; 12.30 within; 1 dinner, prayer; 2 writ 

 

         society, prayed; 4 prayed, visited; 5 tea, conversed, prayer; 6 prayers; ,7 Heb. vi. I! com­munion, 

 

         supper, Pen[ry], on business; 9.30.

 

Sunday 17

 

4 Prayed, on business, Sp[italfields]; 9.30 communion, I Thes. iv. 3! communion; 1 dinner, Writ; 2.30 on business, sleep; 3 the leaders, tea, prayed; 5 prayers, Matt. xxv. 35! 6.30 society, within, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 18[2]

 

4 Prayed, Heb. ix. 13! select society, Writ narrative; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, on business; 11.30 Highbury Pl[ace], letters; 2 dinner, letters, prayed; 5 tea, conversed, letters; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Matt. xxiv. 27.

 

Tuesday 19[3]

 

4 III; 5 prayed, letters; 8 tea, prayer, letters; 2.30 dinner, letters; 5.30 tea, prayed; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Wednesday 20[4]

 

4 Prayed, letters; 7 tea, conversed, walk; 8 at home, letters; 11 coach, Camberwell; 12 read Will Jones; 2 dinner, conversed; 3.30 read narrative, prayed; 6 tea, conversed; 8 read; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 10.30.

 

1788. FEB. 25, Mon.-I took a solemn leave of the con­gregation at West Street, by applying once more what I had enforced fifty years before, ‘By grace are ye saved through faith.’ At the following meeting the presence of God, in a marvellous manner, filled the place. The next evening we had a very numerous congregation at the new chapel, to which I declared the whole counsel of God. I seemed now to have finished my work in London. If I see it again, well; if not, I pray God to raise up others, that will be more faithful and more successful in His work!

 

Thursday 21

 

5 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 read Jones; 11 conversed, prayer; 12 coach; 12.45 Bal[h]am; 1 within; 1.30sermon; 2 dinner, conversed; 3 sermon; 5 tea, conversed, prayed, sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Friday 22

 

4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, sermon; 1 dinner, conversed; 2.30 coach, visited; 4.45 tea, conversed, prayer; 5.30 prayed, letters; 8.30 prayer, Mal. iii. [-], prayer; 10.30.

 

Saturday 23

 

5.30 Prayed; 7 letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, married Ada Hann.; 10 on business; 12 visited; 1.30 at sister Shakespe[are’s], dinner, conversed, read Madan! tea; 6 prayers, Heb. ix. 13! communion, supper, Pen[ry], on business; 9.30.

 

Sunday 24

 

4 Prayed, letters, Chapel; 9.30 Matt. xviii. 3! communion, dinner, sleep; 3 the leaders; 5 prayers, Eph. ii. 8, society, coach, general love­feast; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 25

 

4 Prayed, I Thes. v. 23, select society, tea, Mag.; 10 Painter’s, select society, at S. Wells, dinner, prayer, at Charles’s, conversed, prayer; 4.30 tea, conversed, prayer; 5.30 prayed; 6.30 prayers, Eph. ii. 8! supper, the bands; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 26

 

4 Prayed, I Thes. v. 23, within to many; 8 tea, conversed; 10 at the Pai[nter’s], dinner, visited, letters; 1.45 writ narrative, on business; 6.30 prayers, Eph. iii. 17, etc.; 7.30 the leaders, supper, conversed; 9.30.

 

Wednesday 27

 

4 Prayed, letters, tea, prayer; 8 letters, Mag.; 1 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3 writ narrative, letters; 5 prayed, writ narrative; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Thur. 28.[5]-I set out in the mail-coach, and the next morning came to Bath. Here I found a pleasing prospect. The congregations are larger than ever. The society is, at length, at unity in itself; and, consequently, increases both in grace and number.

 

Thursday 28

 

  4 Prayed, letters, within; 7.30 tea, within; 8 visited some; 9 on business, letters; 1 dinner; 2 on 

 

           business, letters; 5 tea, conversed, prayer; 6 Ro. xi. 25, supper; 8 coach; 10 sleep.

 

Friday 29

 

        6 Conversed, read, tea, conversed; 11 Bath, at brother Fowl, writ   narrative; 1 dinner, within, letters; 

 

                   5 tea, conversed, prayed; 6.45        I Cor. ix. 24, within, supper, prayer; 9.30.

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[1] On Feb. 11 he wrote to Robert Dan (Tyerman’s Life of Wesley, vol. iii. p. 532).

 

[2] On Feb. 18 he wrote to his brother Charles, who was dying: ‘Dear brother,- You must go out every day, or die. Do not die to save charges. You certainly need not want anything as long as I live.’ Jackson’s Life of Charles Wesley, vol. ii. p. 437.)

 

[3] He wrote from near London to Henry Moore: On the Marlborough Street House, just opened; on George Dice, who had been ill- ‘Nurse him tenderly, and he will come to good’; on Bethesda; and on Dr. Coke in Dublin (new ed. Wesley Letters)

 

[4] He wrote from London to Miss Jane Bisson, of St. Heliers, Isle of Jersey, a letter of highest affection, and esteem. (Full version, new ed. Wesley Letters.)

 

[5] On the 27th he wrote from London you now take up your cross (for that it to Robert Carr Brackenbury. He hopes to see him at Raithby in June (Works, vol. xiii. p. 8). On the 29th he wrote from Bath to David Gordon, at the Preaching-house in Waterford (new ed. Wesley Letters).