{"id":"jw/letters/1771/17-to-john-fletcher","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"17 To John Fletcher","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-1771-17-to-john-fletcher","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1771-17-to-john-fletcher-000"],"word_count":112,"themes_auto":["christology","pneumatology","prevenient-grace"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1771-17-to-john-fletcher-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1771-17-to-john-fletcher-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1771-17-to-john-fletcher","source_title":"17 To John Fletcher","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To John Fletcher Date: PARKGATE, March 22,1771. I always did for between these thirty and forty years clearly assert the total fall of man and his utter inability to do any good of himself; the absolute necessity of the grace and Spirit of God to raise even a good thought or desire in our hearts; the Lord's rewarding no work and accepting of none but so far as they proceed from His preventing, convincing, and converting grace through the Beloved; the blood and righteousness of Christ being the sole meritorious cause of our salvation. Who is there in England that has asserted these things more strongly and steadily than I have done","word_count":112,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","prevenient-grace","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:05:11.315548"}]}