AFTER many Delays and Dilap pointments, the Printing of the following JOURNAL is at last finished: But the Publisher being fometimes from Home, and at other Times burried, (the Proofs coming at unfeafonable Hours,) had not the Opportunity of correcting the Profe lo exactly as appears to have been needful; wherefore, we w Reader will excufe the many Defects which are to be found in it. In feveral Places it is wrong pointed, in others are no Points at all, where they are very neceffary; by which Means the Senfe is greatly alter'd; and where there should be Capitals are Small Letters, whereby the Work appears to a very great Dijadvantage. It can't be expected, there being fuch a Multitude of Blunders, that all will be taken Notice of in the Errata: It may fuffice, if none that are of any Confequence are omitted; and Care has been taken that it may not be the Cafe. ERRAT A. I. AMONG the innumerable Novelties which have appeared in the World, within half a Century, I do not remember to have seen the Experience of a Child written by herfelf. Herein much Variety is not to be expected, nor any Art or Ornament at all: As the fet down from time to time, merely for her own Ufe, juft what occurred between GOD and her own Soul. But on this very Account, Perfons of Understanding will fet the greater Value upon it: because it contains only genuin Chriftian Experience, painted in its native Colours. 2. THE Reflections occafionally interfperfed, are always juft, frequently strong and affecting: particularly thofe on Death, or the Shortness of Life, efpecially from the Mouth of a Child. And the Language wherein they are expreffed, altho' plain and altogether unftudied, is yet pure and terfe in the higheft Degree, yea frequently elegant: Such as the moit polite either of our Lawyers or Divines would not eafily alter for the better. Such Language I hardly know where to find, unless in the almoft inimitable Letters of Jane Cooper: between whoni and Mifs Gilbert there was a remarkable Refemblance, both in Sentiment and Expreffion. And had it pleafed the All-wise Difpofer of all things, to give her a few more Years on Earth, and an increase of Grace in Proportion to her Years, the would have been another Jane Cooper. JOHN WESLEY. LIVERPOOL. A SHORT |