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Sun. 10. Our service began at ten. Mr. Creighton (whose health is a little recovered by rest, and drinking the mineral waters) read Prayers and assisted at the sacrament. I preached on, " The children are brought to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth." At half an hour past two we had a far larger congregation, and I think equally serious ; on whom I enforced the exhortation, " Come unto me, all ye that are weary andheavy-laden." In the evening I opened and largely applied those words in the Gospel for the day, “ Verily I say unto you, Many Prophets andKings have desired to see the ; things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things that yehear, and have not heard them." Mon. 11.-Leaving the society here well united together, I went on, and preached at Bristol in the evening ; and on Tues- day, 12, retired to a friend's house, where I went on with Mr. Fletcher's Life without interruption ; but on Wednesday, 13, Icould not resist the desire ofmy friends, to preach at Temple church in the evening. I never saw it so full in an evening before, nor felt so much ofthe power of God there. Fri. 15. I had much satisfaction in the evening at the chapel in Guinea-Street. It was throughly filled ; and most of i the people seemed much affected, while (from Heb. xii. 1) I described what I take tobe the chiefbesetting sins ofBristol,- love of money, and love of ease. Indeed God has already i wrought a great deliverance for many ofthem ; and we hope a far greater will ensue. Sun. 17.-I preached morning and evening at the Room; and in the afternoon at Kingswood, where the work of God seems to stand nearly at one stay ; not sensibly increasing or decreasing. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I met the classes at Bristol; and on the remaining days of the week transcribed the society, considerably increased since last year; and I hope in grace as well as in number. i Sat. 23.-I read the general plan of Monsieur Gebalin's vast Oct. 1786.1 JOURNAL. 351 work, designed to consist of twelve very large quarto volumes ; eightofwhichare published :-"The Primitive WorldAnalyzed, andcomparedwith the Modern." He is a man of strong under-