The influence on John Wesley’s theology of an escape as a child from a
burning dwelling is thus described by Rev. W. H. Fitchett:
His theology translated itself into the terms of that night
scene. The burning house was the symbol of a perishing world.
Each human soul, in Wesley’s thought, was represented by that
fire-girt child, with the flames of sin, and of that divine
and eternal anger which unrepenting sin kindles, closing round
it. He who had been plucked from the burning house at midnight
must pluck men from the flames of a more dreadful fire. That
remembered peril colored Wesley’s imagination to his dying
day.--“Wesley and His Century.”
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=Theory, Erroneous=--See VITALITY LOW.