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John Wesley lived from 1703 to 1792. He grew up in a village in North Lincolnshire called Epworth. John Wesley’s father was the Anglican Priest. . When John Wesley was 5 years old, the rectory caught fire – or possibly, as his father was a very unpopular vicar – it was set on fire. Everyone escaped – until that is the horrified parents, counting up
their many children, discovered they were one short – little John was still in the building.
Rushing back, they found him standing in an upstairs window
– some bystanders pulled him to safety. So it was that in future years John Wesley frequently referred to himself as “a brand from the burning” – someone plucked
by God from the flames. His mother firmly believed
that little John had been spared especially that he might be used by God. All the Rectory books were destroyed in the fire, but according to tradition on the next morning, one scrap of charred paper was
found swirling around the stack yard – it was a fragment of the Rectory bible, containing the words “Take up thy cross and follow me”. . So the Wesleys came to believe that God had saved
John, that he might take up his cross and do the Lord’s work.
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