Monday, September 9.—I preached at Charlton, a village six miles from Taunton, to a
large congregation gathered from the towns and country for many miles round. All the
farmers here had some time before entered into a joint engagement to turn all out of their
service and give no work to any who went to hear a Methodist preacher. But there is no
counsel against the Lord. One of the chief of them, Mr. G---, was not long after convinced
of the truth and desired those very men to preach at his house. Many of the other confederates
came to hear, whom their servants and laborers gladly followed. So the whole device of Satan
fell to the ground; and the Word of God grew and prevailed.
Wednesday, October 2.—I walked to Sold Sarum, which, in spite of common sense, without house or inhabitants, still sends two Members to the Parliament. It is a large, round hill, encompassed with a broad ditch, which, it seems, has been of a considerable depth. At the top of it is a cornfield; in the midst of which is another round hill, about two hundred yards in diameter, encompassed with a wall and a deep ditch. Probably before the invention of cannon, this city was impregnable. Troy was; but now it is vanished away and nothing left but “the stones of emptiness.”
The Journal of John Wesley
Wednesday, October 2.—I walked to Sold Sarum, which, in spite of common sense, without house or inhabitants, still sends two Members to the Parliament. It is a large, round hill, encompassed with a broad ditch, which, it seems, has been of a considerable depth. At the top of it is a cornfield; in the midst of which is another round hill, about two hundred yards in diameter, encompassed with a wall and a deep ditch. Probably before the invention of cannon, this city was impregnable. Troy was; but now it is vanished away and nothing left but “the stones of emptiness.”
The Journal of John Wesley
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