{"id":"jw/letters/1772/25-to-philothea-briggs","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"25 To Philothea Briggs","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-1772-25-to-philothea-briggs","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1772-25-to-philothea-briggs-000"],"word_count":84,"themes_auto":["pneumatology","prevenient-grace","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1772-25-to-philothea-briggs-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1772-25-to-philothea-briggs-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1772-25-to-philothea-briggs","source_title":"25 To Philothea Briggs","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Philothea Briggs Date: LIVERPOOL, March 23, 1772. If useless words or thoughts spring from evil tempers, they are properly evil, otherwise not; but still they are contrary to the Adamic law: yet not to the law of love; therefore there is no condemnation for them, but they are matter of humiliation before God. So are those (seemingly) unbelieving thoughts; although they are not your own, and you may boldly say, 'Go, go, thou unclean spirit; thou shalt answer for these, and not I.'","word_count":84,"source_url":null,"themes":["works-piety","pneumatology","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:06:00.992909"}]}