{"id":"jw/letters/1764/42-to-thomas-rankin","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"42 To Thomas Rankin","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-1764-42-to-thomas-rankin","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1764-42-to-thomas-rankin-000"],"word_count":189,"themes_auto":["free-will","means-of-grace","prevenient-grace"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1764-42-to-thomas-rankin-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1764-42-to-thomas-rankin-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1764-42-to-thomas-rankin","source_title":"42 To Thomas Rankin","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Rankin 25 LONDON, December 15, 1764. DEAR TOMMY, I will send a man down to W. Darney See letter of Nov. 6. that is as rough as himself namely, T. Bryant. But he is much changed for the better, and I think will not now jar with you. You need not, indeed, be very near one another: Cornwall is wide enough. Otherwise let T. Bryant stay in Devonshire and Peter Price move westward. Price was admitted on trial as a preacher in Aug. 1765. John Catermole sticks fast at Kingswood, and can get no farther. I wish you could conquer J. Paynter too. And who knows Love may do the deed. Want of sleep will occasion hoarseness. You should sleep at least six hours in twenty-four, either at once or at twice. For hoarseness look into the Primitive Physick; and try, one after another if need be, the garlic, the apple, the conserve, and the balsam. I know not how you will procure subscribers to Goodwin See letters of Nov. 2and Dec. 31. while you are pressing the general subscription. I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend.","word_count":189,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","prevenient-grace","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:02:33.308214"}]}