Wesley Corpus

How he got over to the leads none can’ tell: but he did so, and quickly broke through the roof, on which a vent being made, the smoke and flame issued out as from a furnace: those who were at the foot of the stairs with water, being able to go no further, then went through the smoke to the door of the leads, and poured it down through the tiling. By this means the fire was quickly quenched, having only consumed a part of the partition, with a box of clothes, and a little damaged the roof, and the floor beneath. It is amazing that so little hurt was done; for the fire, which began in the middle of the long rooni, (none can imagine how; for no person had been there for several hours before,) was so violent, that it broke every pane of giass but two, in the window, both at the east and west end. What was more amazing still, was, that it did not hurt either the beds, (which, when James Burges came in, seemed all covered with flame,) nor the deal partitions on the other side of the room, though it beat against them for a considerable time. What can we say to these things, but that God had fixed the bounds which it could not pass ¢ We observed Friday, the 28th, as a solemn fast: and from this time the work of God revived in Bristol. We were indeed brought very low. A society of nine hundred members was shrunk to little more than half the number. But God now began to turn our captivity, and put a new song in our mouth. Thur. November 3.--I preached in the new preaching house at Pill. Dec. 1757. ] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 647 How is the face of things changed here! Such a sink of sin was scarce to be found: and now how many are rejoicing in God their Saviour! Mon. ’7.--Leaving the flame just kindling in Bristol, I rode to Newbury; and on Tuesday to London. I found the same fire kindled here also, and increasing more and more.