{"id":"jw/letters/1756b/21-to-captain-richard-williams","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 21 To Captain Richard Williams","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-21-to-captain-richard-williams","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1756b-21-to-captain-richard-williams-000"],"word_count":79,"themes_auto":["reign-of-god","social-holiness","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1756b-21-to-captain-richard-williams-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1756b-21-to-captain-richard-williams-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1756b-21-to-captain-richard-williams","source_title":"B 21 To Captain Richard Williams","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Captain Richard Williams Date: LONDON November 16. 1756. MY DEAR BROTHER, You do me too much honor. Yet I do not think you flatter; for you speak out of the sincerity of your heart. But love is apt to make us a little blind, so that we cannot see clearly. However, I am obliged to you for your good intention. I wish you may be more and more zealous for God; and am, dear Richard. Your affectionate brother.","word_count":79,"source_url":null,"themes":["social-holiness","reign-of-god","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:00:22.284237"}]}