{"id":"jw/letters/1748/02-to-william-holland","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"02 To William Holland","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-1748-02-to-william-holland","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1748-02-to-william-holland-000"],"word_count":310,"themes_auto":["christology","reign-of-god","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1748-02-to-william-holland-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1748-02-to-william-holland-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1748-02-to-william-holland","source_title":"02 To William Holland","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To William Holland Date: BRISTOL, February 6, 1748. MY DEAR BROTHER, I rejoice to find that you have not forgotten me. Our Lord, I trust, has given us to each other, that we may strengthen each other's hands in Him. The plain reason why I bless our Lord daily for the assistance of my brother Charles is, because I know him to be an able minister of the New Testament, of the Spirit which maketh alive, and one that exercises himself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. Surely our poor Brethren do not infer anything contrary to this from the low, self-inconsistent slanders which were handed about two or three years ago! After Mr. Williams had behaved so ill I had no thought of ever acting in union with him again. And all his overtures and acknowledgements I made no account of till he gave so substantial a proof that God employed him still, as He has done in Dublin. Then I could no longer withstand God; although to this day we have not readmitted him into the number of our stated labourers. But neither dare I reject him altogether. I was at first a little surprised that the Brethren should so obstinately persist in accounting me their enemy. But I now quietly commit my cause to Him that judgeth righteous judgement. I will write to Mr. Maxfield this post. To be with the leaders of a Sunday afternoon may be a means of uniting you together. O let us wait upon the Lord; He hath the preeminence, and His right hand bringeth mighty things to pass. On Monday the 15th instant I am to set out hence for Ireland. Grace and peace be with you. I am, with tender affection, Your loving brother. This was wrote a week, but forgot to be sent.","word_count":310,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","reign-of-god","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:42:40.185881"}]}