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.” Fri. 27.--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. Mon. 30.--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.