Autobiographies (Volume 6); A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Excerpt: ... I referred several till Thursday. God enabled me to give them answers of peace ! How does God work by my unworthy hands ! His mercies melt me down. Oh, that I was thankful! Thursday, January 4. Though my cold continued, and I feared it would prevent my speaking, yet God enabled me to expound with extraordinary power in a private society; and then to preach at Wapping chapel, so that the word pierced the hearers' souls; and afterwards I expounded and prayed for an hour and a half with great power and demonstration of the Spirit, and my heart was full of God. How immediately does Jesus Christ reward me for my poor services ! As soon as my daily work is done, he says, Enter thou into the joy of the Lord: --he commands, and it is done. Friday, January 5. Held a conference at Islington, concerning several things of very great importance, with seven true ministers of Jesus Christ, despised Methodists, whom God has brought together from the east and the west, the north and the south. What we were in doubt about, after prayer, we determined by lot, and every thing else was carried on with great love, meekness, and devotion. We continued in fasting and prayer till three o'clock, and then parted with a full conviction that God was going to do great things among us. Oh, that we may be anyway instrumental to his glory; that he would make us vessels pure and holy, meet for our master's use! Expounded twice afterwards in London with great power, and then was much enlarged for near an hour in prayer, in Fetter-lane society. The spirit of supplication increases in my heart daily. May it increase ever more and more! Did not find the pity I ought, upon seeing a brother full of self-love. Lord enlarge my narrow heart, and give me that charity which rejoices not in iniquity, but in the trut...