{"id":"jw/letters/1747/02-to-howell-harris","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"02 To Howell Harris","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":null,"date_precision":"unknown","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"jw-letters","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-letter-1747-02-to-howell-harris","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1747-02-to-howell-harris-000"],"word_count":297,"themes_auto":["assurance","free-will","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1747-02-to-howell-harris-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1747-02-to-howell-harris-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1747-02-to-howell-harris","source_title":"02 To Howell Harris","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Howell Harris NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, March 3, 1747. MY DEAR BROTHER, I was glad to receive a letter from you, though sorry for some of the contents of it. I believed Brother Cownley would labor for peace and simply preach the gospel. I wrote pressingly to Brother Richards (who, I suppose, was at Plymouth since, in his return from Cornwall) to tread in the same steps. By degrees I trust these unkind affections will subside and brotherly love revive and increase. My brother said (this I know) 'he had no more design to have a Society at Plymouth than a palace'; and he had not neither then nor when he desired John Trembath to call there. Nor, indeed, does he now concern himself therewith. The burthen lies upon me, and I am in a strait between two. I am much solicited to suffer those who press for it to be under my care. But what to do I know not. May God make plain my way before my face. From the day I saw him first, I never found the least shadow of double dealing in James Wheatley. I scarce know his fellow upon earth for simplicity and godly sincerity. His preaching in the street I cannot blame; but I should not have advised him to do it at that hour. I will take particular care that those who may hereafter call at Plymouth be of a mild and peaceable spirit. Those who are warm I will desire to go into Cornwall and return another way. I had fully determined to have gone or sent to Portsmouth; but on hearing Brother Jenkins had been there already, I gave up the design. Remember me, my dear brother, in all your prayers, who am Your affectionate brother and fellow laborer.","word_count":297,"source_url":null,"themes":["assurance","free-will","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:42:34.721368"}]}