{"id":"jw/letters/1770/53-to-ann-bolton","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"53 To Ann Bolton","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-1770-53-to-ann-bolton","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1770-53-to-ann-bolton-000"],"word_count":191,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","reign-of-god","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1770-53-to-ann-bolton-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1770-53-to-ann-bolton-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1770-53-to-ann-bolton","source_title":"53 To Ann Bolton","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Ann Bolton Date: LONDON, December 29, 1770. MY DEAR SISTER, You did well to write without delay; it may be a means of strengthening you. To confess the work of God is one of the appointed ways of retaining whatever He has wrought. That you are assaulted on every side is a good sign: so much the more will you cry to the strong for strength; so much more will you Hang upon His arm and feel Your utter helplessness. I am glad of your interviews just at this time with my dear Hannah Ball. Nothing could be more providential; at this season particularly you stand in need of every help. And God has favoured her with a considerable measure of the wisdom that cometh from above. It is your wisdom to suppress to the uttermost of your power all unprofitable reasoning; to abide simple before God, crying, 'Lord, what I know not teach Thou me.' Now you may profit by Jenny Cooper's Letters and the Plain Account of Christian Perfection. But you need to be nursed like a little child. Therefore write soon and freely to Your affectionate brother.","word_count":191,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","reign-of-god"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:05:04.445575"}]}