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ed worthy of the vocation wherewith they were called. On the 23d, he returned to Newcastle..

During the summer, there was a large increase of the work of God, in Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, and in the most savage parts of Lancashire.

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"On August 26th," says Mr. Wesley, while I was speaking to some quiet people at Roughley, near Coln, in Lancashire, a drunken rabble came, the captain of whom said he was a deputy constable, and I must go with him. I had scarce gone ten yards, when one of his company struck me in the face wit. all his might. Another threw his stick at my head: all the rest were like as many ramping and roaring lions. They brought me, with Mr. Grimshaw, the minister of Haworth; Mr. Colbeck of Kighley, and Mr. Mackford of Newcastle, who never recovered the abuse he then received, into a public-house at Barrowford, a neighbouring village, where all their forces were gathered together.

"Soon after Mr. Hargrave, the high constable, came, and required me to promise I would come to Roughley no more, This I flatly refused. But upon saying, I will not preach here now, he undertook to quiet the mob. While he and I walked out at one door, Mr. Grimshaw, and Mr. Colbeck, went out at the other. The mob immediately closed them in, tossed them to and fro with the greatest violence, threw Mr. Grimshaw down, and loaded them both with dirt and mire of every kind. The other quiet harmless people, who followed me at a distance, they treated full as ill. They poured upon them showers of dirt and stones, without any regard to age or sex. Some of them they trampled in the mire, and dragged by the hair of the head. Many they beat with their clubs without mercy. One they forced to leap from a rock, ten or twelve feet high, into the river. And when he crept out, wet and bruised, were hardly persuaded, not to throw him in again.

Such was the recompense we frequently received from our countrymen, for our labour of love."

The year 1749 is distinguished by no important occurrence in Mr. Wesley's life. His labours were as usual incessant, his journies regular, and his exertions in the cause of his master unwearied.

In the beginning of the year 1750, having been informed of the violence of the mobs at Cork, against both the preachers and people, and being in nothing terrified by the adversaries, he determined to visit the scene of riot. Accordingly, on April 7th, he landed in Dublin. Here he received a full account of the shocking outrages which had been committed at Cork, for several months together; and which the good magistrates had encouraged rather than opposed. At the Lent assizes, several depositions were laid before the grand jury, against the rioters: yet they did not find any of those bills! But they presented a poor baker, who when the mob were discharging a shower of stones upon him, fired a pistol without ball over their heads, which put them into such bodily fear, that they all ran away, without looking behind them.

Hang rested ten or twelve days in Dublin, Mr. Wesley began his journey through the country societies towards Cork, where he arrived on May the 19th. The next day, understanding that the house was small, he went about eight o'clock, to Hammond's-Marsh; here he preached, to a large and deeply attentive congregation. In the afternoon, two of the ministers went to the mayor, and asked, if it would be disagreeable to him, that Mr. Wesley should preach on the Marsh? He answered, Sir, I will have no more mobs and riots." One of them replied, Sir, Mr. Wesley has made none. then spake plainly, "Sir, I will have no more preaching. And if Mr. Wesley attempts it, I am prepared

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for him." "I would not therefore, attempt to preach on the Marsh, but began in our own house about five. The good mayor, mean time, was walking on the Change, and giving orders to his serjeants and the town drummers, who immediately came down to the house, with an innumerable mob attending him. They continued drumming, and I continued preaching, till I had finished my discourse. When I came out, the mob presently inclosed me. Observing one of the serjeants standing by me, I desired him to keep the king's peace. But he replied, 6 Sir, I have no orders to do that.' As soon as I came into the open street, the rabble threw whatever came to hand. But all went by me, or over my head; nor do I remember that any thing touched me. I walked straight through the midst of the rabble, looking every man before me in the face; and they opened to the right and left, till I came near Dant's Bridge. A large party had taken possession of this: but when I came up, they likewise shrunk back, and I walked through them to Mr. Jenkins's house. But a stout Papist-woman stood just within the door, and would not let me come in, till one of the mob, aiming I suppose at me, knocked her down flat. I then went in, and God restrained the wild beasts, so that no one attempted to follow me.

"But many of the congregation were more roughly handled; particularly Mr. Jones, who was covered with mud, and escaped with his life almost by a miracle. Finding the mob were not inclined to disperse, I sent to alderman Pembrook, who immediately desired alderman Wenthrop, his nephew, to go down to Mr. Jenkins's : with whom I walked up the street, none giving an unkind or disrespectful word.

"All the following week it was at the peril of his life, if any Methodist stirred out of doors. And the case was much the same, during the whole mayoralty of

Mr. Crone. But the succeeding mayor, declared in good earnest, There shall be no more mobs or riots in Cork. And he did totally suppress them. So that from that time forward, even the Methodists enjoyed the same liberty with the rest of his Majesty's subjects.

"In the mean time the work of God went on with lit tle opposition, both in other parts of the county of Cork, at Waterford, and Limerick; as well as in Mountmelick, Athlone, Longford, and most parts of the province of Leinster. On my return from Cork, I had an opportunity of visiting all these. And I had the satisfaction of observing, how greatly God had blessed my fellow-labourers, and how many sinners were saved from the error of their ways.

"All this time God gave us great peace at Bandon, notwithstanding the unwearied labours, both public and private of Dr. B. to stir up the people. But Saturday 26, many were under great apprehensions of what was to be done in the evening. I began preaching in the main street at the usual hour, but to more than twice the usual congregation. After I had spoken about a quarter of an hour, a clergyman, who had planted himself near me, with a very large stick in his hand, according to agreement opened the scene. Indeed his friends assured me, he was in drink, or he would not have done it.' But before he had uttered many words, two or three resolute women, by main strength pulled him into an house, and after expostulating a little, sent him away through the garden.-The next champion that appeared, was a young gentleman of the town.-But his triumph too was short: for some of the people quickly bore him away, though with much gentleness and civility. The third came on with far greater fury : but he was encountered by a butcher of the town, not one of the Methodists, who used him as he would an ox, bestowing one or two heavy blows on his head. This

cooled his courage, especially as none took his part. So I quietly finished my discourse."

Mr. Wesley continued his labours in Ireland, till July 22, when he sailed for Bristol. He staid there a few days only, and then visited the societies through the West of England, as far as Cornwall.

Previous to this period, Mr. Wesley had formed a resolution to marry. But Mr. Charles Wesley, found means to prevent the marriage, for reasons which appeared to him of sufficient importance to authorize him to interfere. Mr. John Wesley, however, thought otherwise, and this was the first breach of that union and harmony which had now subsisted between the two brothers, without interruption, during twenty years. Notwithstanding this disappointment, Mr. Wesley having fixed this choice of a partner, proposed the matter to Mr. Perronet. February 2, 1775, he received Mr. Perronet's answer, in favour of the marriage. Immediately after, he married Mrs. Vizelle, a widow, lady of independent fortune. But before the wedding, he settled her fortune upon herself, refusing to have the command of one shilling of her property. Mr. Wesley's constant -habit of travelling through Great-Britain and Ireland, the number of persons who visited him, and his extensive correspondence with the members of the society, were circumstances unfavourable to that social intercourse, mutual openness and confidence, which form the basis of happiness in the married state. These circumstances, indeed, would not have been very important, had he espoused a woman who could have entered into his views, and accommodated herself to his situation but had he searched the whole kingdom, he could not have found a woman more unsuitable in these re spects, than the lady whom he married..

She first left him, in 1771: and they finally separated about four years after that occurrence. When she was

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