{"id":"jw/letters/1771/60-to-ann-bolton","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"60 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-1771-60-to-ann-bolton","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1771-60-to-ann-bolton-000"],"word_count":227,"themes_auto":["free-will","social-holiness","works-mercy"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1771-60-to-ann-bolton-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1771-60-to-ann-bolton-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1771-60-to-ann-bolton","source_title":"60 To Ann Bolton","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Ann Bolton Date: PEYBROKE, August 25, 1771. MY DEAR SISTER, Now you make me amends. Your affectionate letter gave me unspeakable satisfaction. I am glad you have been with Sister Iles. She is a jewel. Is she going to be married or not I am glad likewise that you have better health; surely He will withhold from you no good thing! But I cannot tell you how glad I am that your love is not grown cold. Perhaps our wise Lord may sometimes make that love a balance against the temptations you speak of. You certainly have need to watch in all things; otherwise you would suffer loss. And you have need to be always active and zealous for God, forgetting yourself and simply following Him. But one caution I would give my dear friend. Do not spend too much time at once in any company. An hour at a time is generally enough; and if we spend more, it is less useful. O how I long for patience to have its perfect work in you, that you may be perfect in Him, and lacking nothing! I will pardon your past delay only on one condition, that you quickly write again. Let not your works of mercy rob you of time for private prayer; and fail not then especially to remember, my dear Nancy, Yours affectionately.","word_count":227,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","social-holiness","works-mercy"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:05:36.347730"}]}