Wesley Corpus

I think this was the happiest time of all. The poor and the rich seemed to be equally affected. O how are the times changed at Cow bridge, since the people compassed the house where I was, and poured in stones from every quarter But my strength was then according to my day; and (blessed be God!) so it is still. In the evening I preached in the large hall at Mr. Matthews's in Llandaff. And will the rich also hear the words of eternal life? "With God all things are possible." I preached at Cardiff about noon, and at six in the evening. We then went on to Newport; and setting out early in the morning, reached Bristol in the afternoon. Sunday, 29. I had a very large number of communicants. It was one of the hottest days I have known in England. The thermometer rose to eighty degrees;-as high as it usually rises in Jamaica. Being desired to visit a dying man on Kingsdown, I had no time but at two o'clock. The sun shone without a cloud; so that I had a warm journey. But I was well repaid; for the poor sinner found peace. At five I preached to an immense multitude in the Square; and God comforted many drooping souls. I set out for the west, and in the evening preached at Taunton, on, "Walk worthy of the Lord." Tuesday, 31. After preaching at Collumpton about noon, in the evening 1 preached at Exeter, in a convenient Room, lately a school; I suppose formerly a chapel. It is both neat and solemn, and is 166 REv. J. WESLEY's Sept. 1779. believed to contain four or five hundred people. Many were present again at five in the morning, SEPTEMBER 1, and found it a comfortable opportunity. Here a gentleman, just come from Plymouth, gave us a very remarkable account:-''For two days the combined fleets of France and Spain lay at the mouth of the harbour. They might have entered it with per fect ease.