This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... the plainness and artlessness of this people. Who would imagine that they lived within ten, yea, or fifty miles of Oxford? Wed. 16. I preached at South-Lye. Here it was that I preached my first sermon, six and forty years ago. One man was in my present audience who heard it; most of the rest are gone to their long home. After preaching at Witney in the evening, I met the believers apart, and was greatly refreshed among them. So simple a people I -scarce ever saw. They did "open the window in their breast: " and it was easy to discern that God was there, filling them with joy and peace in believing. Thur. 17. About ten I preached at Oxford, in a room well filled with deeply-attentive hearers, on part of the "Sermon on the Mount," the noblest compendium of religion which is to be found even in the oracles of God. In the evening I preached at High-Wycombe, the next at Chesham, where, our own room being too small, that friendly man, Mr. Spooner, willingly gave me the use of his meeting-house. I found the little Society much afive, many knowing in whom they had believed; several enjoying, and others thirsting after, the whole image of God. On Saturday I had a pleasant journey to London. Mon. 21. As I drove to Chatham, I read Mr. Hoole's fine translation of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered: " allowed, I suppose, by most judges of poetry, to be not much inferior to the DEGREESEneid; but I wonder Mr. Hoole was so imprudently faithful, as to present Protestants with all Tasso's Popish fooleries. Those excrescences might have been pared off, without the least injury to the work. In the evening I preached to a crowded audience, ripe for all the promises of God. How good is it for fallen man, to earn his food by the sweat of his brow: every where we find the...