JULY 1, Sun.-At seven I strongly exhorted a large congregation not to be conformed either to the wisdom, spirit, or fashions of this world, if ever they desired to be transformed in the spirit of their mind, according to the perfect and acceptable will of God. In the evening I opened and applied those awful words, ‘Lord, are there few that be saved?’

 

Tues. 3.-A few friends took me to Marino, a seat of Lord Charlemont’s,[1] four miles from Dublin. It contains a lovely mixture of wood, water, and lawns, on which are several kinds of foreign sheep, with great plenty of peacocks; but I could not hear any singing-birds of any kind. I a little wondered at this, till I afterwards recollected that I had not heard any singing-bird, not even a lark, a thrush, or a blackbird, within some miles of Dublin. In the evening I strongly enforced those awful words, ‘Strive to enter in at the strait gate,’ upon a numerous congregation; who had ears to hear, and hearts to receive the whole gospel.

 

Wed. 4.[2]-I spent an hour at the New Dargle,[3] a gentleman’s seat four or five miles from Dublin. I have not seen so beauti­ful a place in the kingdom. It equals the Leasowes in

 

JULY 1, Sunday

 

4 Prayed, Journal; 7 Rom. xii. 2, Journal, tea, prayed; 11 prayers, communion, visited; 2.30 at Mr. Sm[ith’s], dinner, conversed; 4 sleep, writ narrative, prayed; 5 tea, conversed; 5.30 Lu. xiii. 23! 7 society, walk, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 2

 

4 Prayed, I Jo. iii. 8, etc., letters; 8 tea, conversed; 9 coach, Marino, conversed; 1.30 at home; 2 dinner, conversed; 4.30 tea, conversed, prayed; 6.30 Luke xiii. 24! walk; 8.30 supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 3

 

4 Prayed, letters; 6.30 writ Minutes; 8 tea, conversed, writ narrative; 10.15 coach; 11.30 New Dargle, coach; 2 dinner, writ letter, prayer; 4.30 tea, conversed, prayer; 6.30 Dr. Coke; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Wednesday 4

 

4 Prayed, I Jo. iii. 12-16, writ Conf[erence]; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, letters; 11 Parliament House! 12 

 

L[-], coach; 2 dinner. conversed, writ Conf[erence], tea; 5.30 prayed, Heb. iv. 9; 7.30 sister Arms! [in the Dublin List of Members the name Hann. Armstrong occurs], the leaders, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

­Warwickshire,[4] and it greatly exceeds them in situation, all the walks lying on the side of a mountain, which commands all Dublin Bay, as well as an extensive and finely variegated land prospect. A little river runs through it, which occasions two cascades, at a small distance from each other. Although many places may exceed this in grandeur, I believe none can exceed it in beauty. Afterwards I saw the Parliament House.[5] The House of Lords far exceeds that at Westminster; and the Lord-Lieutenant’s throne as far exceeds that miserable throne (so-called) of the King in the English House of Lords.[6] The House of Commons is a noble room indeed. It is an octagon, wainscoted round with Irish oak, which shames all mahogany, and galleried all round for the convenience of the ladies. The Speaker’s chair is far more grand than the one of the Lord­ Lieutenant. But what surprised me above all were the kitchens of the house, and the large apparatus for good eating. Tables were placed from one end of a large hall to the other; which, it seems, while the Parliament sits, are daily covered with meat at four or five o’clock, for the accommodation of the members. Alas, poor Ireland I Who shall teach thy very senators wisdom? War is ceased; the 6th, our Conference began; and ended as usual on Tuesday the 10th. We had no jarring string, but all, from the be­ginning to the end, was love and harmony.

 

Sed saevior armis, 

 

Luxuria incubuit![7]

 

Thur. 5.-Most of our preachers came to town. Friday

 

Thursday 5

 

4 Prayed, Gen. xvii. I, letters; 8 tea, conversed, letters; 2 dinner, con­versed; 3.30 on business, prayed; 6.30 I Tim. vi. 20, select society, at brother Keen[e]’s, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Sun. 8.[8] - I preached at our room at seven. At eleven the service began at Bethesda. The congregation was exceeding large. I preached on part of the Second Lesson, Luke xx. 34; and many had a large taste of the powers of the world to come. At the love feast in the evening many spoke freely who were deeply experienced in the ways of God. Indeed they have fairly profited in the divine life. I have rarely heard such a conversation even in England. On Tuesday evening likewise many spoke with equal fire, tempered with meekness of wisdom.            .

 

Wed. 11.-At five I took an affectionate leave of this

 

Friday 6

 

4 Prayed, Mark iv. 27, Conf[erence] ; 8 letters; 9 Conf[erence]; 2 dinner; 3 Conf[erence]; 4.30 on business, tea; 5.30 tea, conversed; 6.30 Deut. xxx. 6, singers! 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 7

 

4 Prayed, writ narrative; 6 Conf[erence]; 8 tea, within; 9 Conf[erence] ;     2.30 dinner, letter, prayed; 4.30 tea; 5 visited; 6 Deut. xxxiii. 26, visited; 8 supper, conversed, prayer, on business; 10.

 

Sunday 8

 

4 Prayed, letter; 7 Mal. iii. I! tea, letters; 11 Bethesda, prayers, Lu. xx. 34, etc.! 2.30 dinner, conversed; 4 sleep, tea, prayed; 5.30 I Sam. xvii. ! 7 lovefeast! supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 9

 

4 Prayed, I Pet. iv. II, Conf[erence]; 8 tea; 9 Conf[ erence]; 1 writ narra­tive; 2 dinner, Conf[erence]; 4.30 writ narrative; 5 married E. Freeman! tea, conversed, christened, tea; 6.30 Zech. iv. 7, within, supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 10[9]

 

4 Prayed, Matt. v. 45, Conf[erence]; 8 tea, within; 9 Conf[erence]; 12 letters; 2 dinner; 3 Conf[erence]; 4 prayed, tea, conversed, visited, prayed; 6.30 Matt. viii. 2, the bands, supper; 9 prayer; 9.30.

 

Wednesday 11

 

4 Prayed, 1 Pet. v. 10! letters; 8 tea, prayer, writ narrative, letters, within to many; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer; 4.30 tea; 5.30 in the boat; 6.30 in the Prince of Wales, prayed, within; 9.30.

 

loving people; and, having finished all my business here, in the afternoon I went down with my friends, having taken the whole ship, and went on board the Prince of Wales, one of the Parkgate packets.[10] At seven we sailed with a fair, moderate wind. Between nine and ten I lay down, as usual, and slept till near four, when I was waked by an uncommon noise, and found the ship lay beating upon a large rock, about a league from Holyhead. The captain, who had not long lain down, leaped up, and, running upon the deck, when he saw how the ship lay, cried out, ‘Your lives may be saved, but I am undone!’ Yet no sailor swore, and no woman cried out. We immediately went to prayer; and presently the ship, I know not how, shot off the rock and pursued her way, without any more damage than the wounding a few of her outside planks. About three in the afternoon we came safe to Parkgate, and in the evening went on to Chester.

 

Fri. 13.-I spent a quiet day; and in the evening enforced to a crowded audience the parable of the Sower. I know not that ever I had so large a congregation.

 

Thursday 12

 

4 Prayed, the Little Mouse! prayer; 5 [-], prayed; 7 tea, read Dr. Beattie; 12 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3 Parkgate, at Mr. Simcox’s, tea, conversed; 4 chaise; 6 Chester, on business; 8.45 supper, prayer; 9.45.

 

Friday 13

 

4.45 Prayed, Journal; 9 writ Conf[erence]; 1 dinner, conversed, read prayers; 4 letters, prayed, tea, conversed; 6.45 Mark iv. 3! At brother Brisco’s, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 14

 

4 Prayed, Mark iv. 26, tea, conversed; 6.15 chaise, Ha[-]; 9 tea, within; 1.0 chaise; 11.45 Knuts[fo]rd, dinner; 1 chaise; 3 Macc[les­fiel]d, letters; 5 tea, prayed, letters; 7 2 Cor. xv. 55 [sic], supper, conversed, prayer, on business; 9.30.

 

Sun. 15.-I preached at the new church[11] in the morning, on Matt. v. 20; in the afternoon, on 1 Cor. xv. 55; Mr. [John] Broadbent in the room at eight in the morning, and between five and six in the evening.

 

Mon. 16.-The house was well filled at five in the morning. At noon I took a view of Mr. Ryle’s silk-mill, which keeps two hundred and fifty children in perpetual employment. In the evening I preached on Mark iii. 35; and we had a comfortable opportunity.

 

Tues. 17.[12]-About noon I preached in the new chapel at Bullock Smithy,[13] and in the evening at Stockport. Being informed that the people in general were dead and cold, I strongly applied ‘Now it is high time to awake out of sleep.’ God was pleased to speak in His word and that with a mighty 

 

Sunday 15

 

4 Prayed, letters, tea, letters; 10 prayers, Matt. v. 20, dinner, conversed; 1.30 sleep, prayed, prayers, .Matt xx. 16, tea, conversed; 5 prayed, letter, society, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.15.

 

Monday 16

 

4 Prayed, Psa. ciii. 14, letters; 7.30 tea, conversed, letters; 12 walk! letters; 12.30 dinner; 1.30 letters; 4.45, at Mr. Roe[’s], tea, con­versed; 5.15 prayed; 6 Mark iii. 35! 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 17

 

4 Prayed, Matt. xii. 43! letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 chaise; 11 Bull[ock]smit[hy], within; 12 Rom. iii. 23, chaise; 1 at sister Mare’s [Mayer’s], dinner, letters; 5 tea, prayed; 6.30 Stockp[ort], Rom. xiii. 12! society, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

voice; but still more powerfully at five in the morning, Wednesday the 18th, while I was enforcing that promise,  ‘The Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to His temple.’ I then retired to a little house of Mr. Brocklehurst's, two miles beyond Manchester. Here Adam Oldham lived![14]  Oh what did riches profit him! How strange the providence which put me in his place!

 

The rest of this week I spent in writing.[15] On Saturday the 21st I returned to Manchester.

 

Sun. 22.-0ur service began at ten. Notwithstanding the severe cold which has continued many 

 

days, the house was well filled; but my work was easy, as Dr. Coke assisted me. As many as could crowded in the evening; but many were obliged to go away. Afterwards I spent a comfortable hour with the society.

 

Wednesday 18

 

4 Prayed, Mal. iii. I! chaise; 7.30 Manc[heste]r, tea, within; 9 chaise, letters; 1 dinner, within for Conf[erence]; 4.30 walk, tea, prayed; 6.30 Mag.; 8 walk; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Thursday 19

 

4 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 accounts, texts; 12 walk, writ narrative; 1.15 dinner, within; 2 writ narrative; 4 Coheleth,[16] prayed; 5.30 tea, walk; 7.30 Coheleth; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Friday 20

 

4 Prayed, Coheleth; 12 garden; 1 dinner, conversed, Coheleth; 5 prayed, tea, conversed, prayed; 6.30 writ sermon, read Smith’s Tour [Sir James Smith’s Tour on the Continent, which had been recently published], supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 21

 

4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, prayer, sermon; 12.30 walk, read Smyth’s [Tour?]; 1.30 dinner; 2.30 sermon; 4.15 chaise; 5 Manc[heste]r, tea, together; 6 prayed, sermon; 8 supper, together, prayer, on business; 9.45.        

 

Sunday 22

 

4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, sermon; 10 prayers, Rom. vi. 23! communion; 1 dinner; 2.30 sermon; 4 prayed, tea; 5.30 Prov. xxii. 6, society, sermon; 8 supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Mon. 23.-I preached morning and afternoon. In the even­ing I met the bands, and admired their liveliness and simplicity. After preaching on Tuesday morning I retired again to Broughton.[17]

 

Thur. 26.-About noon I preached in the new preaching-­house,[18] to as many as it would well contain, on Isaiah Iv. 5, 6. To-day I read upon the road a very agreeable book, Mr. Dobbs’s Universal History.[19] It gave me a clearer view of ancient times than ever I had before; but I still doubt of many famous incidents, which have passed current for many ages. To instance in one: I cannot believe there was ever such a nation as the Amazons in the world. The whole affair of the

 

Monday 23

 

4 Prayed, Psa. 1. 23, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, sermon; 10.30 read narrative, walk; 1 dinner, conversed; 2 read narrative, visited; 4 prayed, tea, conversed; 6.30 Lu. viii. 18, visited, the bands; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 24

 

4 Prayed, Levit. xix. 17, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, visited; 10 E.R.! chaise; 11.30 Bruton [Broughton], letters; 1.30 dinner; 2.15 sermon, prayed; 5.15 tea, conversed; 6 sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 8.15.

 

Wednesday 25

 

4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, sermon; 12.30 garden; 1 dinner, together; 2 sermon; 4 prayed; 5 tea; 6 sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer! 9.30.

 

Thursday 26

 

4 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, writ narrative; 10 chaise; 11.30 Bury, within; 12 Isai. Iv. 6! 1 dinner, prayed, read; 3.30 chaise; 5 Rochda[le], tea, conversed, prayed; 6 Matt. v 47, walk! supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Argonauts I judge to be equally fabulous, as Mr. Bryant[20]  has shown many parts of ancient history to be. And no wonder, considering how allegories and poetic fables have been mistaken for real histories.

 

After preaching at Rochdale I was agreeably surprised by a young woman that called upon me. Several years [ago] a girl thirteen or fourteen years old was remarkable for piety; but a year or two after, when I called upon her with great expec­tation, she had not the least savour of it left. She came on purpose to inform me that God had restored her, and she was now determined to live and die to Him. God grant she may! She will either be an abandoned apostate or a shining Christian.

 

Fri. 27. - The house was well filled at five. I have not seen so large a morning congregation, in proportion to the size of the town, since I returned to England. I was invited to breakfast at Bury by Mr. Peel,[21] a calico-printer, who, a few years ago, began with five hundred pounds, and is now supposed to have gained fifty thousand pounds. Oh what a miracle if he lose not his soul!

 

Thence we went on to Bolton. Here are eight hundred poor

 

                        Friday 27

 

4 Prayed, Mal. iii. I! chaise; 8 at Mr. Peele’s, tea, conversed; 9.15  chaise; 10.30 Bolton, writ diary; 12.45 dinner, conversed; 1.45 letter, rode; 4 prayed, visited, tea, Deut. v. 7, society! Supper, Anthem! prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 28

 

4 Prayed, 2 Cor. iv. 7! chaise; 7.30 Manch[este]r, on business; 8 tea, conversed, the Com[mittee]; 12.15 letters; 1 dinner, conversed, letters; 3 prayed; 4 Com[mittee]; 5 christened, tea, within to many; 8 prayed, supper, on business; 9.30.

 

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children taught in our Sunday schools[22] by about eighty masters, who receive no pay but what they are to receive from their Great Master. About a hundred of them (part boys and part girls) are taught to sing; and they sang so true that, all singing together, there seemed to be but one voice. The house was thoroughly filled while I explained and applied the first commandment. What is all morality or religion without this? A mere castle in the air. In the evening, many of the children still hovering round the house, I desired forty or fifty to come in and sing­-

 

Vital spark of heavenly flame.[23]

 

Although some of them were silent, not being able to sing for tears, yet the harmony was such as I believe could not be equalled in the King’s chapel.[24]

 

Sunday 29

 

4 Prayed, Committee; 6 letters; 8 tea, conversed, on business; 10 prayers, Jo. xvii, 3! communion; 1 dinner, conversed; 2 letters; 4 prayed, tea; 5 Matt. vii. 16, society, Committee; 8.30 supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 30

 

4 Prayed, Matt. xiii. 31, writ letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 letters, within to many; 1 dinner, together; 2 writ narrative, prayed; 4 read letters, tea: 6.30 Zech.iv.6! the [-]; 8.15 supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 31

 

4 Prayed, Committee; 6 Conf[erence]; 8 tea, conversed, prayer; 9 Conf[erence]; 12 writ narrative: 1 dinner; 2 Conf[erence]; 5 tea, conversed, prayer; 6 within; 6.30 Isa. v. 4! Committee; 8 supper, within: 9.30.

 

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John Wesley's Journal

 

(July 1787.

 

Jthe 6th, our Conference began; and ended as usual on Tuesday the loth. We had no jarring string, but all, from the be­ginning to the end, was love and harmony.

 

Sun. 8.1_1 preached at our room at seven. At eleven the service began at Bethesda. The congregation was exceeding large. 1 preached on part of the Second Lesson, Luke xx. 34; and many had a large taste of the powers of the world to come. At the love feast in the evening many spoke freely

 

. who were deeply experienced in the ways of God. Indeed they have fairly profited in the divine life. I have rarely heard such a conversation even in England. On Tuesday evening likewise many spoke with equal fire, tempered with meekness of wisdom. .

 

 Wed. II.-At. five 1 took an affectionate leave of this

 

Friday 6

 

4 Prayed, Mark iv. 27, Con£(erence] ; 8 letters; 9 ConfTerence); 2 dinner;

 

         3 ConfTerence]; 4.30 on business, tea; 5.3° tea, conversed; 6.30

 

            Deut. xxx. 6, singers! 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.3°.

 

       Saturday 7

 

 4 Prayed, writ narrative; 6 ConfTerence); 8 tea, within; 9 Conf[erence] ;

 

            2.3° dinner, letter, prayed; 4.3° tea; 5 visited; 6 Deut. xxxiii. 26,

 

            visited; 8 supper, conversed, prayer, on business; 10.

 

Sunday 8

 

4 Prayed, letter; 7 Mal. iii. I ! tea, letters; I I Bethesda, prayers, Lu. xx.

 

        34, etc.! 2.3° dinner, conversed; 4 sleep, tea, prayed; 5.3° I Sam.

 

            xvii. ! 7 lovefeast ! supper, conversed, prayer; 9.3°.

 

        Monday 9

 

4 Prayed, I Pet. iv. II, ContI erence]; 8 tea; 9 Con£( erence]; I writ narra­tive; 2 dinner, Con£(erence); 4.3° writ narrative; 5 married E. Freeman! tea, conversed, christened, tea; 6.30 Zech. iv. 7, within, supper, prayer; 9.3°.

 

     Tuesday 10'

 

 4 Prayed, Matt. v. 45, Con£(erence); 8 tea, within; 9 Conf[erence]; 12

 

 letters; 2 dinner; 3 Conf)erence); 4 prayed, tea, conversed, visited,

 

         prayed; 6.30 Matt. viii. 2, the bands, supper; 9 prayer; 9.3°'

 

  Wednesday I I

 

 4 Prayed, 1 Pet. v. 1O! letters; 8 tea, prayer, writ narrative, letters,

 

 within to many; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer; 4.3° tea; 5.3° in the

 

         boat; 6.30 in the Prt'nce of Wales, prayed, within; 9.3°.

 

 1 He wrote from Dublin to Mrs. Jane to Samuel Bradburn and to Mrs. BalI

 

Freeman (new ed. Wesley Letters). (Works. vol. xiii. p. 125, and neW ed.

 

   2 On July 10 he wrote from Dublin Wesley Letters).

 

JulY 1787.J

 

To Parkgate and Chester

 

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loving people j and, having finished all my business here, in the afternoon 1 went down with my friends, having taken the whole ship, and went on board the Prince of Wales, one of the Parkgate packets.! At seven we sailed with a fair, moderate wind. Between nine and ten 1 lay down, as usual, and slept till near four, when 1 was waked by an uncommon noise, and found the ship lay beating upon a large rock, about a league from Holyhead. The captain, who had not long lain down, leaped up, and, running upon the deck, when he saw how the ship lay, cried out, 'Your lives may be saved, but I am undone! ' Y etno sailor swore, and no woman cried out. We immediately went to prayer j .and presently the ship, 1 know not how, shot off the rock and pursued her way, without any more damage than the wounding a few of her outside planks'. About three in the afternoon we came safe to Parkgate, and in the evening went on to Chester.

 

Fri. 13.-1 spent a quiet day; and in the evening enforced to a crowded audience the parable of the Sower. I know not that ever 1 had so large a congregation.

 

Thursday I_

 

4 Prayed, the Little Mouse! prayer; 5 [_], prayed; 7 tea, read Dr. Beattie; 12 dinner, conversed, prayer; 3 Parkgate, at Mr. Simcox's, tea, conversed; 4 chaise; 6 Chester, on business; 8.45 supper, prayer; 9-45.

 

Friday 13

 

4-45 Prayed, Journal; 9 writ Conf[erence]; 1 dinner, conversed, read

 

        prayers.; 4 letters, prayed, tea, conversed; 6.45 Mark iv. 3! at

 

        brother Brisco's, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.3°.

 

                        Saturday 14

 

4 Prayed, Mark iv. 26, tea, conversed; 6.15 chaise, Ha[_]; 9 tea, within; 1.0 chaise; 11.45 Knuts[fo ]rd, dinner; 1 chaise; 3 Macc[les­fiel]d, letters; 5 tea, prayed, letters; 7 2 Cor. xv. 55 [sic], supper, conversed, prayer, on business; 9.3°.

 

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'James Rogers, who at the Conference of this year was stationed for Cork, found

 

it necessary, before entering upon his new

 

apPointment, to go with his wife to

 

Macclesfield. On board the packet there

 

:-vas quite a large company of Methodists,

 

Including Wesley, Dr, Coke, and other

 

preachers and their wives. He describes

 

the peril of the voyage and the remark. able interposition in answer to prayer. See Westey's Veterans, vol. vii. pp. 171-2, or E.M.P. vol. iv. pp. 321-2; also Life oj Hester Ann Rogers, p. 66; F. F. Bretherton's Meth. in and around Chester, p. 135; and Meth. Rec. Winter No., 19<>3, p. 49.

 

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[1] James, the first Earl. See above, vol. vi. p. 204; Young's Tour, June 13, 1776; and Forster’s Goldsmith, pp. 367 and 425.

 

[2] He wrote from Dublin to Lady Max­well (Works, vol. xii. p. 351).

 

[3] Identified by Mr. Robert Morgan with Glensouthwell, Harold’s Grange, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. See correspondence in the Irish Times of May 26, 1904, where an extract is quoted from R. Lewis, author of the Dublin Guide, 1787, who gives a graphic description of the glen as he saw it on August 19, 1787, one month later than Wesley’s visit. (W.H.S. vol. v. p. 75.)

 

[4] See above, vol. vi. p. 361. Doubtless a lapsus calami for Worcestershire; but, curiously, in Wesley’s lime it formed part of an  ‘island’ -part of Shropshire, Some seven miles in length, lying in the body of Worcestershire. It was annexed to the latter county in 1844.

 

[5] Now the Bank of Ireland.

 

[6] The reference, of course, is to the old house, destroyed by fire in 1834.

 

[7] This quotation is from Juvenal, vi. 292-3. The whole couplet reads:

 

Nunc patimur longae pacis mala; saevior

 

armis

 

Luxuriaincubuit, victumque ulcisciturorbem.

 

‘Now we are suffering the ills of long continued peace; luxury; more cruel than war, has come upon us, and is avenging our conquest of the world.’

 

Cf. Hor. Od. I. 3, 30-31. The ‘sed’ is Wesley’s, and should be read as part of the text. (W.H.S. vol. v. P.9I.)

 

[8] He wrote from Dublin to Mrs. Jane Freeman (new ed. Wesley Letters).

 

[9] On July 10 he wrote from Dublin to Samuel Bradburn and to Mrs. Hall (Works. vol. xiii. p. 125, and new ed. Wesley Letters).

 

[10] James Rogers, who at the Conference of this year was stationed for Cork, found it necessary, before entering upon his new appointment, to go with his wife to Macclesfield. On board the packet there was quite a large company of Methodists, including Wesley, Dr, Coke, and other preachers and their wives. He describes the peril of the voyage and the remarkable interposition in answer to prayer. See Wesley’s Veterans, vol. vii. pp. 171-2, or E.M.P. vol. iv. pp. 321-2; also Life of Hester Ann Rogers, p. 66; F. F. Bretherton’s Meth. in and around Chester, p. 135; and Meth. Rec. Winter No., 1903, 

 

p. 49.

 

[11] In Macclesfield. This is made cer­tain by the Diary, and also by the fact that on the day following, July 16, he wrote from Macclesfield to Freeborn Garrettson, who had just left Nova Scotia for the United States. The Baltimore Conference of 1787 refused to agree to Wesley’s suggestion that Garrettson shou1d be appointed superintendent of the British dominions in America. (See Steven’s History of the M.E. Church, vol. ii. p. 324; Tipple’s Life of Freeborn Garrettson, published by C. H. Kelly.) Amongst other things the letter is interesting for the information it gives respecting the price of printing:

 

Before I had printing-presses of my own, I used to pay two and thirty shillings for printing two and-twenty pages duodecimo. The paper was from twelve to sixteen shillings a ream. I do not blame you for printing those tracts. (Works, vol. xiii. p. 72.)

 

[12] He wrote from Manchester to Samuel Bradburn (Works Vol. Xiii. P.126)

 

[13] Bullock Smithy is now Hazel Grove again. The chapel, which once was a chapel of-ease to Norbury, built by the Rev. David Simpson, passed to the Methodists in 1784 (Meth. Rec. Winter No., 1899. p. 75, and below, p. 373), he origin of the name is simple, Bullock being the smith. The London and Buxton coach-roads met at that point.

 

[14] See above, vol. v. p. 452. The reasonable inference is that this was Broughton, mentioned below (24th). See a letter from A[dam] O[ldham] to the ‘Rev. Mr. Wesley,’ Jan. 8, 1763 (Arm. Mag. 1782, p. 331).

 

[15] On the 19th he wrote from near Manchester to Mrs. Armstrong in Athlone -contrary to my ‘common rule not to write first to anyone.’ On the 20th to Adam Clarke at Guernsey (new ed. Wesley Letters).

 

[16] Choheleth; or, the Preacher. See above, vol. v. p. 248. In the Richmond College Library there is a copy which has been freely annotated by Wesley.

 

[17] On the 24th he wrote from near Manchester to John Ogilvie, then stationed in the Isle of Man; to Mrs. Jones, Fonmon Castle; and to Arthur Keene a family letter (W.H.S. vol. viii p. 46).

 

[18] At Bury. See Diary.

 

[19] A Summary of Universal History, published in 4 vols. 1787 (in 1800,9 vols.).

 

[20] His ‘extirpating spirit,’ says Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, would have consented to give up the Homeric heroes (Mrs. Carter’s Letters, vol. iii. p. 107). See WH.S. vol. iv. P.236.

 

[21] Later in life Mr. Peel related to his Methodist workmen his version of this invitation, saying Mr. Wesley ‘agreed, on condition that he might bring some of his children with him. Of course I 

 

consented, and he came accompanied by six-and-thirty of his itinerant preachers.’ He cherished a warm affection for the Methodists, often worshipping in their chapels, and selecting the managers of his mills from among them. He was created a baronet in 1800, and died in 1830. His eldest son, the second Sir Robert, became the famous Minister of State. See Tyerman’s Life of Wesley, vol. Hi. p. 499; W.M. Mag. 1903, p. 442; and Wesley Studies, p. 189.

 

[22] See below, p. 377: Arm, Mag 1788, p. 489; Musgrave’s Bolton Methodism, P.29 The school was begun in 1785.

 

[23] The opening line of Pope’s Ode, The Dying Christian to his Soul, sung to E. Harwood’s popular setting, Sacred Harmony, p. 139. See W.H.S. vol. v. p. 157, and Lightwood’s Hymn. Tunes and Their Story, p. 220.

 

 [24]  On July 28 he wrote from Manchester to Adam Clarke ‘announcing a visit to Jersey with Dr. Coke, Mr. Brackenbury, and possibly John King (new ed. Wesley Letters).