{"id":"jw/letters/1756b/11-to-robert-marsden","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 11 To Robert Marsden","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-1756b-11-to-robert-marsden","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1756b-11-to-robert-marsden-000"],"word_count":187,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","reign-of-god","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1756b-11-to-robert-marsden-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1756b-11-to-robert-marsden-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1756b-11-to-robert-marsden","source_title":"B 11 To Robert Marsden","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Robert Marsden Date: BRISTOL August 31, 1756. A careless reader of the Address may possibly think 'I make it necessary for a minister to have much learning,' and thence imagine I act inconsistently, seeing many of our preachers have no learning at all. But the answer is easy. (1) I do not-make any learning necessary even for a minister (the minister of a parish, who, as such, undertakes single to guide and feed, to instruct, govern that whole flock) but the knowledge of the Scriptures; although many branches of learning are highly expedient for him. (2) These preachers are not ministers: none of them undertakes single the care of an whole flock, but ten, twenty, or thirty, one following and helping another; and all, under the direction of my brother and me, undertake jointly what (as I judge) no man in England is equal to alone. Fight your way through all. God is on your side; and what then can man do to you Make known all your wants to Him, and you shall have the petitions you ask of Him. I am Your affectionate brother.","word_count":187,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","reign-of-god"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:00:16.991510"}]}