{"id":"jw/letters/1768/27-to-his-brother-charles","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"27 To His Brother Charles","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-1768-27-to-his-brother-charles","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1768-27-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"word_count":275,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","trinity","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1768-27-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1768-27-to-his-brother-charles-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1768-27-to-his-brother-charles","source_title":"27 To His Brother Charles","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To his Brother Charles Date: NORTON, NEAR STOCKTON, June 14, 1768. DEAR BROTHER, I rejoice to hear from various persons so good an account of the work of God in London. You did not come thither without the Lord; and you find your labour is not in vain. On July 16 Charles writes to his wife from London, where he is looking for a house, and tells her that 'on Thursday night the Foundery was crowded with serious hearers of every sort. My subject, \" He is able to save to the uttermost all that,\" c.' I doubt not but you will see more and more fruit while you converse chiefly with them that are athirst for God. I find a wonderful difference in myself when I am among these and when I am among fashionable Methodists. On this account the North of England suits me best, where so many are groaning after full redemption. But what shall we do I think it is high time that you and I at least should come to a point. Shall we go on in asserting perfection against all the world Or shall we quietly let it drop We really must do one or the other; and, I apprehend, the sooner the better. What shall we jointly and explicitly maintain (and recommend to all our preachers) concerning the nature, the time (now or by-and-by), and the manner of it (instantaneous or not) I am weary of intestine war, of preachers quoting one of us against the other. At length let us fix something for good and all; either the same as formerly or different from it. Errwso. 'Farewell.'","word_count":275,"source_url":null,"themes":["universal-redemption","catholic-spirit","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:03:26.049806"}]}