It ought not to be forgotten that when the rest of the society made all haste to escape
for their lives, four only would not stir, William Sitch, Edward Slater, John Griffiths, and
Joan Parks: these kept with me, resolving to live or die together; and none of them received
one blow but William Sitch, who held me by the arm from one end of the town to the other.
He was then dragged away and knocked down; but he soon rose and got to me again. I afterward asked him what he expected when the mob came upon us. He said, “To die for Him
who had died for us”: and he felt no hurry or fear but calmly waited till God should require
his soul of him.
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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