{"id":"jw/letters/1755/04-to-ebenezer-blackwell","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"04 To Ebenezer Blackwell","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-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell-000","jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell-001"],"word_count":402,"themes_auto":["christology","prevenient-grace","scriptural-authority"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell-000","jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell-001"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell","source_title":"04 To Ebenezer Blackwell","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Ebenezer Blackwell Date: MANCHESTER April 9, 1755. DEAR SIR, Being fully persuaded that my brother would gladly embrace any overture of peace, I told him almost as soon as we met what my wife had agreed to. He answered not a word. After a day or two I spoke to him again. It had the same success. The Sunday before he left Bristol I desired to speak to him, but he did not come. Just as I was going out of town the next morning he sent to me to can at his house. But I could not then; and before I came back he was set out for London, only leaving a note that he had left his answer with Lady Huntingdon. It may be so; but I saw her twice afterwards, and she said nothing of it to me. Nether am I (any more than my wife) willing to refer the matter to her arbitration. See next letter. From the whole I learn that there is no prospect of peace. When one is willing, then the other flies off. I shall profit by both; but I am sorry to do it at the expense of others. I have another favor to beg of you to procure Mr. Belcher's See letters of March 15, 1748, and May 28, 1757. leave for me to enclose my proof-sheets Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. The work was begun on Jan. 6, 1754. See Journal, iv. 91; Green's Bibliography, No. 172; and letter of June 20. to him. Mr. C. Perronet Charles Perronet had charge of the Notes, which Wesley was passing through the press. See Jackson's Chs Wesley, ii. 87; and letter of Sept. 12 to Blackwell. sends them down to me in thanks; then I correct and send them back to him. The next week I am to spend at Liverpool. Toward the end of the week following I hope to be at Haworth, near Keighley, in Yorkshire. God has blessed me with a prosperous journey hither, though the roads and the weather were rough. I hope both Mrs. Blackwell and you are making the best use of a things, rough and smooth. That is the part of a good solder of Jesus Christ, To trace His example, the world to disdain,","word_count":383,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","prevenient-grace","scriptural-authority"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T19:59:56.250903"},{"id":"jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell-001","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1755-04-to-ebenezer-blackwell","source_title":"04 To Ebenezer Blackwell","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":1,"text":"And cheerfully trample on pleasure and pain. Poetical Works v. 427. I am, dear sir, Your very affectionate servant.","word_count":19,"source_url":null,"themes":[],"created_at":"2026-01-29T19:59:56.250935"}]}