warmest acknowledgements-he left that port on the 25th of October :-on the evening of the 28th they encountered a most violent storm, which raged with so much fury, and the ship filled so fast with water, that it became necessary to cut away the mizen-mast; the gale abated on the 30th, and after a common passage for that season of the year, they arrived opposite Deal on the 3d of December, and he immediately landed. When he arrived in London, he was received with much joy as one returned from the dead, it having been reported that the vessel in which he had sailed, was drowned: and one lady was reading an account of his death when he vi sited her. He found letters, and a journal of all the proceedings in Georgia from the time of his departure, which his brother had forwarded. Before he finally quitted America, Mr. Charles Wesley had written to his brother, freely expressing his sentiments of some persons-but had cautiously inserted their names in Greek: this letter the latter dropt, and it was in the possession of his enemies, to whom he was so candid as to explain who were designated; the writer had escaped from those them, therefore the enmity raged with increased violence, and the receiver was obliged to bear all its fury.

Most of the Trustees for Georgia were Dissenters; and they must have possessed unbounded liberality of sentiment, to approve of the Messrs. Wesleys as preachers of the gospel in their colony; they being men of high church principles. On the 7th of December one of them called upon Mr. C. W. "We had much discourse of Georgia", says Mr. W. " and of my brother's persecution among that stiff-necked people. He seems a truly pious humble christian; full of zeal for God, and love to man." Mr. Oglethorpe arrived in London on the seventh of January 1737, and prevailed upon Mr. Wesley to retain his office as Secretary and to return to Georgia. He expected to have sailed in October,

but the appointment was delayed-and on the third of April 1738 he resigned his office, in consequence of his Physician's opinion, who peremptorily forbade his voyage, and the advice of his friends who solicited him to stay at Oxford; Mr. Oglethorpe offered him a deputy until his health permitted him to enter upon his duties, but he altogether relinquished his intention of revisiting Georgia.

Early in 1737, Count Zinzendorff arrived in England; the principal object of his journey was to unite the English and Moravian churches in Georgia, and to procure the sanction of them as such in England. The Count had been informed of the piety and zeal of the two brothers, and on the nineteenth, a few days after his arrival, he sent for Mr. Charles Wesley. He went, and the Count saluted him with all possible affection, and made him promise to call every day. He was acquainted with the object of the Count's voyage to England. From him he went to the Bishop of Oxford, who received him with equal kindness, and desired him to call as soon as he could, without ceremony or further invitation. They had much talk of the state of religion among the Moravians, and of the object of the Count's visit. Mr. Wesley spent this year in attending on the Trustees and the Board of Trade; in visiting his friends in London, Oxford, and different parts of the country; and his brother and mother in the West of England. He preached occasionally at the places in which he rested and was every where zealous for God, and remarkably useful to a great number of persons by his religious con

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In August he was requested to carry up the Address from the University of Oxford to his Majesty. Accordingly, on the 26th, he waited on the King with the Address, at Hampton-Court, accompanied by a few friends.

Peter Bohler visited England about the time of Mr. John Wesley's return from Georgia, February 1738; his acquaintance with the two brothers soon commenced, and Mr. C. Wesley consented to assist him in acquiring he English language. Immediately after this Mr. C. W. was attacked by the pleurisy.. On the 24th, the pain became so violent as to threaten sudden death. Whilst he was in this state, Peter Bohler came to his bed side. "I asked him, "adds Mr. Wesley," to pray for me.

seemed unwilling at first; but beginning faintly, he raised his voice by degrees, and prayed for my re66 covery with strange confidence. Then he took me by the hand and calmly said you will not die now. I thought within myself, I cannot hold out in this pain till morning-He said, Do you hope to be saved?" I answered, yes. "For what reason do

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you hope to be saved?" Because I have used my best endeavours to serve God. He shook his head and said no more."

On May the 17th, Mr. Wesley first saw Luther on the Galatians, which Mr. Holland had accidentally procured. They immediately began to read him; " And my "friend," adds Mr. Wesley, "was so affected in hearing him read, that he breathed sighs and groans unutter"able. I marvelled that we were so soon and entirely removed from him that called us into the grace of

Christ, unto another gospel. Who would believe "that our Church had been founded on this important "article of justification by faith alone? I am astonished that I should ever think this a new doctrine; especial

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while our Articles and Homilics stand unrepealed, "and the key of knowledge is not yet taken away. "From this time I endeavoured to ground as many of

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our friends as came to see me, in this fundamental "truth.-Salvation by faith alone-not an idle dead "faith, but a faith which works by love, and is inces"santly productive of all good works and all holiness.”

"Behold the Saviour of mankind,

Nail'd to the shameful tree;

How vast the love which him inclin'd,

To bleed and die for thee."

"It was one of the most triumphant hours which I have ever known. Yet on July 19th I rose very heavy and "backward to visit them for the last time. At six in the

morning, I prayed and sung with them altogether. "The Ordinary would read prayers, and he preached "most miserably." Mr. Sparks and Mr. Broughton were present; the latter of whom administered the sacrament, and then prayed; Mr. Wesley prayed after him. At half past nine o'clock, their irons were knocked off, their hands tied, and they prepared for the solemn journey and the fatal hour. The Clergymen went in a coach, and about eleven the criminals arrived at Tyburn. Mr. Wesley, Mr. Sparks, and Mr. Broughton got upon the cart with them: the Ordinary endeavoured to follow; but the poor prisoners begged that he would not, and the mob kept him down. They were all cheerful; full of comfort, peace and triumph; firmly persuaded that Christ had died for them, had taken away their sins, and waited to receive them into paradise.-They shewed no natural terror of death; no fear, no crying, no tear. "I never saw," says Mr. Wesley, "such calm triumph, "such incredible indifference to dying. We sang se "veral hymns; particularly,

A guilty, weak and helpless worm,

Into thy hands I fall;

Be thou my life, my righteousness,
My Jesus and my all.

"I took leave of each in particular. Mr. Broughton "bid them not to be surprised when the cart should "draw away. They cheerfully replied, they should "not. We left them, going to meet their Lord. They "were turned off exactly at twelve o'clock; not one "struggled for life. I spoke a few suitable words to the

"crowd, and returned full of peace and confidence in "our friends happiness."

He consented on the 20th to take charge of Mr. Stonehouse's parish at Islington, as Curate; in which church he officiated daily; and was incessantly employed in the Redeemer's service, either in reading prayers, preaching in the churches, or in holding meetings in private houses to pray and expound the Scriptures; and the number of persons converted to God was very great.

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During the month of October the two brothers waitupon the Bishop of London to answer to some complaints which had been made concerning them: and on November 14th Mr. Charles Wesley alone conversed with him-at both these interviews the Bishop exhibited that candour and liberality for which he was so highly distinguished.

Immediately after this last conference with the Bishop, Mr. Charles Wesley met Mr. Whitefield in Oxford, who urged him to accept of a college living-and his brother with all his other friends strenuously argued in favour of his settlement at Oxford; which clearly demonstrates that the plan of itinerant preaching had not then been agitated.

Having judged it prudent to remove any incorrect opinion which the heads of the Church might have formed from the variety of false reports that had been propagated with regard to their ministerial labours, Messrs. John and Charles Wesley stated in person to the Archbishop of Canterbury their doctrines, object and success : the prelate behaved to them with much affection, and assenting to their doctrines, merely cautioned them against giving unnecessary offence, and against the use of exceptionable phrases.

Mr. Whitefield whilst staying in Bristol, frequently preached in the open air in the early part of the spring

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