Wesley Corpus

Fri. 29.--I preached ina part of Kingswood where I never had been before. The places in Kingswood where I now usually preached, were these: once a fortnight, a little above Connam, a village on the_ south side of the wood; on Sunday morning, near Hannam Mount ; once a fortnight, at the School-house, in the middle of Kingswood; on Sunday, in the evening, at Rose Green; and once a fortnight near the Fish Ponds, on the north side of the wood. Sat. 30.--At Weaver’s Hall seven or eight persons were constrained to roar aloud, while the sword of the Spirit was dividing asunder “their souls and spirits, and joints and marrow.” But they were all relieved upon prayer, and sung “ praises unto our God, and unto the Lamb that liveth for ever and ever.” I gave a particular account from time to time, of the manner wherein God here carried on his work, to those whom I believed to desire the increase of his kingdom, with whom I had any opportunity of corresponding. Part of the answer which I received (some time after) from one of these I cannot but here subjoin :-- *T desire to bless my Lord for the good and great news your letter bears, about the Lord’s turning many souls ‘ from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God ;’ and that such ‘a great and effectual _ door is opened’ among you, as the ‘many adversaries’ cannot shut. O may ‘He that hath the key of the house of David, that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth,’ set the door of faith more and more open among you, till his house be filled, and till he gather together the outcasts of Israel: and may that prayer for the adversaries be heard, ‘ Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord.”