laid against him, less or more. Hugh Saunderson preaches in connexion with him. What then? Was not the Sheriff strangely overseen?

Mr. Sutherland furiously insisted, that the officer should carry us to the Tolbooth without delay. However, he waited till two or three of our friends came, and gave a bond for our appearance on the 24th instant. Mr. S. did appear: the cause was heard, and the prosecutor fined one thousand pounds.

Sunday 5, About eight I preached at Ormiston, twelve miles from Edinburgh. The house being small, I stood in the street, and proclaimed, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The congregation behaved with the utmost decency. So did that on the castle-hill in Edinburgh at noon; though I strongly insisted, that God now commandeth all men every where to repent. In the eyening the house was thoroughly filled; and many seemed deeply affected. I do not wonder, that Satan, had it been in his power, would have had me otherwise employed this day.

Wednesday 8, I took my leave of our affectionate friends, and in the evening preached at Dunbar. Thursday 9, the wind being high, I preached in the court-house at Alnwick, but it was intolerably hot. Friday 10, about eleven I preached in the little square, adjoining to the preachinghouse in Morpeth. In the evening I preached at Newcastle; and in the morning, Saturday 11, set out for the Dales. About noon I preached at Wolsingham; and in the evening, near the preaching-house in Weardale.

Sunday 12, The rain drove us into the house, both morning and afternoon. Afterwards I met the poor remains of the select society but neither of my two lovely children, Peggy Spence nor Sally Blackburn were there. Indeed a whole row of such I had seen before; but three in four of them were now as careless as ever. In the evening I sent for Peggy Spence and Sally Blackburn. Peggy came, and I found she had well nigh regained her ground, walking in the light, and having a lively hope of recovering all that she had lost. Sally flatly refused to come, and then ran out

of doors. Being found at length, after a flood of tears, she was brought almost by force: but I could not get one look, and hardly a word from her. She seemed to have no hope left: yet she is not out of God's reach.

I now enquired into the causes of that grievous decay in the vast work of God which was here two years since; and I found several causes had concurred. 1, Not one of the preachers that succeeded was capable of being a nursing father to the new-born children. 2, Jane Salkeld, one great instrument of the work, marrying, was debarred from meeting the young ones; and there being none left, who so naturally cared for them, they fell heaps upon heaps. 3, Most of the liveliest in the society were the single men and women: and several of these, in a little time, contracted an inordinate affection for each other; whereby they so grieved the Holy Spirit of God that he, in great measure, departed from them. 4, Men arose among ourselves, who undervalued the work of God, and called the great work of sanctification a delusion by this they grieved some, and angered others, so that both the one and the other were much weakened. 5, Hence the love of many waxing cold, the preachers were discouraged; and jealousies, heart-burnings, evil surmisings, were multiplied more and more. There is now a little revival: God grant it may increase!

Monday 13, At eleven I preached in Teesdale, and at Swaledale in the evening. Tuesday 14, we crossed over the enormous mountain, into lovely Wensleydale, the largest by far of all the dales, as well as the most beautiful. Some years since many had been awakened here, and joined together by Mr. Ingham and his preachers: but since the bitter dissension between their preachers, the poor sheep have all been scattered. A considerable number of these have been gleaned up and joined together by our preachers. I came into the midst of them at Redmire. As I rode through the town, the people stood staring on every side, as if we had been a company of monsters. I preached in the street, and they soon ran together, young and old, from every quarter. I reminded the elders of their having seen me thirty years be

fore, when I preached in Wensley church, and enforced once more, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. When I rode back through the town, it wore a new face. The people were profoundly civil: they were bowing and curtsying on every side. Such a change in two hours I have seldom seen.

Hence we hasted to Richmond, where I preached in a kind of square. All the Yorkshire militia were there; and so were their officers, who kept them in awe, so that they behaved with decency. At six I preached at the end of our house in Barnardcastle. I was faint and feverish when I began. But the staying an hour in a cold bath, (for the wind was very high and sharp) quite refreshed me, so that all my faintness was gone, and I was perfectly well when I concluded.

Wednesday 15, I went on by Durham to Sunderland. Saturday 18, I preached at Biddick. It was fair while I was preaching, but rained very hard both before and after. Sunday 19, I preached at the east end of the town, I think, to the largest congregation I ever saw at Sunderland. The rain did not begin till I had concluded. At two I preached at the Fell, at five in the Orphan-house.

Monday 20, About nine I set out for Horseley, with Mr. Hopper and Mr. Smith. I took Mrs. Smith, and her two little girls, in the chaise with me. About two miles from the town, just on the brow of the hill, on a sudden, both the horses set out, without any visible cause, and flew down the hill, like an arrow out of a bow. In a minute John fell off the coach-box. The horses then went on full speed, sometimes to the edge of the ditch on the right, sometimes on the left. A cart came up against them: they avoided it as exactly as if the man had been on the box. A narrow bridge was at the foot of the hill; they went directly over the middle of it. They ran up the next hill with the same speed ; many persons meeting us, but getting out of the way. Near the top of the hill was a gate, which led into a farmer's yard; it stood open: they turned short, and run through it, without touching the gate on one side, or the post on the

other. I thought, " however the gate which is on the other side of the yard, and is shut, will stop them." But they rushed through it as if it had been a cobweb, and gallopped on through the corn-field. The little girls cried out, "Grand-papa, save us." I told them, "nothing will hurt you do not be afraid:" feeling no more fear or care, (blessed be God!) than if I had been sitting in my study. The horses ran on till they came to the edge of a steep precipice. Just then Mr. Smith, who could not overtake us before, gallopped in between: they stopped in a moment. Had they gone on ever so little, he and we must have gone down together.

I am persuaded, both evil and good angels had a large share in this transaction; how large we do not know now, but we shall know hereafter.

I think some of the most remarkable circumstances were, 1, both the horses, which were tame and quiet as could be, starting out in a moment just at the top of the hill, and running down full speed: 2, the coachman's being thrown on his head with such violence, and yet not hurt at all: 3, the chaise running again and again to the edge of each ditch, and yet not into it: 4, the avoiding the cart: 5, the keeping just the middle of the bridge: 6, the turning short through the first gate, in a manner that no coachman in England could have turned them, when in full gallop: 7, the going through the second gate, as if it had been but smoke, without slackening their pace at all: this would have been impossible, had not the end of the chariot-pole struck exactly on the centre of the gate: whence the whole, by the sudden impetuous shock, was broken into small pieces: 8, that the little girl, who used to have fits, on my saying, nothing will hurt you," ceased crying, and was quite composed: lastly, that Mr. Smith struck in just then; in a minute more we had been down the precipice: and had not the horses then stopped at once, they must have carried him and us down together. Let those give thanks, whom the Lord hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy!

Friday 24, I read over Dr. Wilson's tract, on the Circulation of the Blood! What are we sure of but the Bible? I thought nothing had been more sure, than that the heart is the grand, moving power, which both begins and continues the circulation. But I think the Doctor has clearly proved that it does not begin at the heart: and that the heart has quite another office; only receiving the blood, which then moves on through its channels, on the mere principle of suction, assisted by the ethereal fire, which is connected with every particle of it.

Sunday 26, In the morning I preached at the Ballast-hills, among the glass-men, keel-men, and sailors. As these had nothing to pay, I exhorted them, to buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Monday 27, I took my leave of this lovely place and people, and about ten preached to a serious congregation at Durham. About six I preached at Stockton-upon-Tees, on a text suited to the congregation, Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Tuesday 28, This being my birth-day, the first day of my seventy-second year, I was considering, How is this, that I find just the same strength, as I did thirty years ago? That my sight is considerably better now, and my nerves firmer than they were then? That I have none of the infirmities of old age, and have lost several I had in my youth? The grand cause is, the good pleasure of God, who doth whatsoever pleaseth him. The chief means are, 1, my constantly rising at four, for about fifty years: 2, my generally preaching at five in the morning, one of the most healthy exercises in the world: 3, my never travelling less, by sea or land, than four thousand five hundred miles in a year.

In the evening I preached at Yarm: about eleven the next day at Osmotherly; and in the evening at Thirsk. Thursday 30, I preached at Hutton-rudby, and found still remaining a few sparks of the uncommon flame, which was kindled there ten years ago. It was quenched chiefly by the