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January 1788
1788. Jan. 1, Tuesday
4 Conversed, read Howel’s letters; 9 tea, conversed, letters; 2 Gloucester; 2.30 dinner, conversed, prayer, sleep, prayed, sermon; 4.30 tea, prayed; 6 Matt. vii. 24; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Wednesday 2
4 Prayed, read narrative, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, sermon; 12.30 read; 1.30 dinner, conversed; 2.15 sermon; 4.15 tea, conversed, prayer, prayed; 6 2 Cor. v. 19! prayed; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Thursday 3
4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 sermon; 1 dinner, conversed, prayer; 2 sermon; 4 tea, conversed, prayer; 5.15 prayed; 6 2 Cor. vi. I! society; 7.30 writ narrative; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.
Friday 4
4 Prayed, Journal; 7 Jam. iii. 17, sermon, visited; 1.15 dinner, conversed, on business, tea, prayer; 4 mail coach; 12.
Saturday 5
9 At home, tea, on business; 10.30 at home; 12 Reid; I at T[homas] O[livers’], dinner, conversed, prayer; 3 Reid; 5 tea, prayed, Reid, supper, Pen[ry], on business ; 9.15.
Sunday 6
4 Prayed, read; 8 the preachers; 9.30 prayers, 2 Kings xxiii. 3, communion; 1 dinner; 2 prayed, tea; 3 the Covenant, read narrative; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.
Monday 7
4 Prayed, Matt. v. 48, select society; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 12 select society, dinner, visited; 3.30 Chapel, within, tea, prayed; 6.30 prayers, Rom. v. I, etc., supper, the bands, prayer; 9.30.
Tuesday 8[1]
4 Prayed, Matt. v. 48! on business; 3 tea, conversed, prayer, visited; 9.30 at home, letters; 1.30 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3.15 prayed; 4 visited, tea, conversed, communion, on business, prayed; 6.30 Rom. vi. 24, the leaders; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.
Wednesday 9[2]
4 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, within, prayer; 9 Reid; 1 dinner, conversed; 2 Reid; 3 letters, prayed; 4.30 tea, conversed, letters; 6 Committee; 8 supper, conversed ; 9 prayer; 9.30.
Thursday 10
4 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 on business, [cipher] *; 11 letters; 1 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3.15; 1.15 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3 prayed, letters; 4.30 tea, conversed, prayer; 6.30 prayers, Rom. viii. 3, 4, the bands; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Friday 11[3]
4 Prayed, letters, on business; 12 the females, on business; 2 dinner, conversed, on business; 2 dinner, writ narrative; 4 visited; 4.30 tea conversed, prayer; 5 prayed, writ narrative; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.
Rom. xi. 23.
Saturday 12[4]
4 Prayed, letters; 7.45 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 on business; 1 dinner, conversed, prayer; 2 read Bacon; 3 prayed, within to many; 4.45 tea, conversed;. 6 prayers, Matt. v. 48, communion; 8 supper, Pen[ry], on business; 9.30.
Sunday 13[5]
4 Prayed, letters, on business, Chapel; 9.30 prayers, Matt. xi. 30! communion, 1 dinner, prayer, 2 sleep, prayed, the leaders, prayers, Rom. xi. 25, love feast, coach; 6.30 society, the married; 8 supper, prayer; 9.30.
Monday 14
4 Prayed, Phil. iii. 13, sleep, tea, prayer, letters, visited; 1 coach, Bal[h]am, dinner, conversed, sermon; 5 tea, conversed, prayed, sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Tuesday 15
4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, within, prayed, accounts; 11 Logic, accounts, garden, accounts; 2 Journal; 4 sermon; 5 tea, conversed, sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Wednesday 16
4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, together, prayer, Logic; 10 Journal; 12 walk, sermon; 2 dinner, conversed, read narrative; 5 tea, conversed, prayed, sermon, Heb. ix. 27! 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Thursday 17
4 Prayed, sermon; 8 prayer, tea, conversed, Logic, letters; 2 dinner, conversed; 2.30 sermon; 5 tea,
conversed; 6 sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Friday 18[6]
4 Prayed, sermon, writ narrative; 8 prayer, tea, conversed, Logic, writ narrative; 10 coach with
Mrs. Wo[lff]; 11.30 on business; 12 the females, letters; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer, letters;
4.30 tea, conversed, prayer; 5 letters; 5.30 prayed; 6.30 letters; 8 supper, prayer; 9.30.
Saturday 19
4 Prayed, letters; 6 writ class; 7.30 tea, prayer, writ class; 10 writ letters; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer; 4 writ narrative, tea, conversed, prayer; 5.30 prayed; 6.30 letters; 7.45 supper; 8.15 Pen[ry], on business; 9.30.
Sunday 20
4 Prayed, letters, Sp[italfields]; 9.30 prayers, I Cor. vii. 24! communion, dinner, conversed, prayer; 2.30 sleep, the leaders; 4 tea, prayed; 5 prayed, Rom. xi. 23, society, single men.
Monday 21
4 Prayed, 2 Cor. v. 15, select society, on business, tea, conversed, prayer, letters; 12 select society; 1.15 dinner; 3 within, writ texts; 5 tea, conversed, prayed; 6.30 prayers, I Cor. iii. 11, 12; 7.30 supper, the bands; 9.30.
Tuesday 22
4 Prayed, 2 Cor. v. 15, Mag., tea, within, prayer; 8.30 at home, letters; 1 dinner, conversed, prayer, walk; 3 at sister Beardmore’s, texts; 5 tea, conversed, prayed, texts; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.45.
Wednesday 23
5 Prayed, texts; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 texts, garden; 1 Mr. Rankin; 1.30 dinner, conversed; 4.30 texts; 5 tea, conversed, prayed, conversed, texts; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.
Thursday 24
4 Prayed, texts; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9.30 walk, at home, letters; 2 at Mr. G., dinner, conversed, texts, prayed; 5.30 tea, conversed; 6.30 Jo. iv. 24! communion; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 10.
Friday 25
4 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, texts; 2 dinner, conversed, walk; 3.30 coach; 4.45 at
home, on business; 5 at Miss Owen’s, tea, conversed, writ letters; 8 supper, conversed; 9
prayer; 9.30.
Saturday 26
4 Prayed, letters; 6.15 walk, class, tea, class; 1 dinner, visited, class; 5 tea, within; 6 prayers; 6.45
Cor. v. 15! communion; 8 supper Pen[ry]; 9 on business; 9.30.
Sunday 27
4 Prayed, letters, Chapel; 9.30 prayers, Matt. xxiv. 44, communion; 1 dinner; 2.45 sleep, the
leaders, prayers, I Cor. ix. 24! society, coach, society, single women, supper, prayer; 9.30.
Monday 28
4 Prayed, Lu. i. 70, select society; 7 class, tea, class; 1 dinner, within; 2 class; 5 tea, class; 6
prayers, I Cor. ix. 24, society, coach; 8 supper, conversed; 9 prayer; 9.30.
Tuesday 29
4 Prayed, letters; 6 class, tea, class; 1 dinner; 2 class; 5 tea, on business prayed; 6.30 prayers, I
Cor. x. 12, the leaders, supper, prayer; 9.30:
Wednesday 30
4 Prayed, letters; 6 class, tea, class! 1.30 dinner, letters, tea, prayed, letters; 8 supper; 9 prayer; 9.30.
Thursday 31
4 Prayed, letters, class, tea, class; 1 dinner, class, tea; 5.30 6 I Cor. xii. 3! the bands, supper, prayer; 9.30.
Heb. x. 31, I Cor. xii. 3, Matt. xxiv. 44, I Cor. ix. 24.
[1] On Jan. 8 he wrote from London to Adam Clarke, asking exact details of a Supposed mystery, and inquiring about friends in the islands (Dunn’s Life of Clarke).
[2] On Jan. 9 he Wrote Duncan Wright, who was now at Bolton. He attributes the comfortable account of the work in his circuit to the influence of the Sunday schools, ‘one of the noblest specimens of charity which have from London to been set on foot in England since the time of William the Conqueror.’ (Tyerman’s Life of Wesley, vol. iii. p. 522.) On the same day he wrote from London to Mrs. Fletcher respecting papers she had sent to Joseph Benson, thus satisfying ‘Mr. Ireland, who seems to have, though I cannot tell why, an insuperable objection to me’ (new ed. Wesley Letters).
[3] On Jan. 11 he wrote from London to Mrs. Barton, of Beverley (Works, vol. xii. p. 384).
[4] On Jan. 12 he reprinted a letter on the ‘Case of Birstall House.’ See above, vol. vi. p. 364; Works, vol. xiii. pp. 274-8.
[5] He wrote from London to Mr. Joseph Pascoe, Oxford, against the proposed sale of a house. ‘By-and-by we should bitterly regret the selling of it’ (new ed. Wesley Letters).
[6] On the 18th he wrote from London to Henry Moore, in Dublin, rejoicing that there is no ‘ebb’ in Dublin, in the acquisition of a house in Marlborough Street, and in a beginning in Castle Road; also to Mr. Thomas -- respecting a disappointment in love (new ed. Wesley Letters); and to William Simpson, then in Stockton-on-Tees, approving his enlargement of the number of prayer meetings (Tyerman’s Life of Wesley, vol. iii. p. 522).