{"id":"jw/letters/1772/47-to-his-brother-charles","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"47 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-1772-47-to-his-brother-charles","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1772-47-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"word_count":298,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","prevenient-grace"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1772-47-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1772-47-to-his-brother-charles-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1772-47-to-his-brother-charles","source_title":"47 To His Brother Charles","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To his Brother Charles Date: DEWSBURY, July 10, 1772. DEAR BROTHER, If I can meet with Mr. Hill's book at Leeds to-morrow, perhaps I may write a little before the Conference. I am glad Mr. Davis Charles Wesley wrote from Bristol to Joseph Benson, 'I have lately escaped death or maiming by a fall.... Mr. Davis has been useful here' (Manuscript Life of Benson, i. 281). has been with you; but he must not assist you for nothing. If he joins heart and hand, he should have seventy pounds a year. My journeys lie thus, if God permit: Mon. Aug. 10, Sheffield; Tuesd. Burslem; Wedn. Salop; Friday, The Hay; , Brecon; , Haverfordwest; , Swansea; Sat. Aug. 30, Bristol; Mon. Sept. 1, Cullompton; , at Bristol again. I am able to stir a little still. Indeed, I find myself no worse in any respect. In these fifty years I do not remember to have seen such a change. She is now xaritwn mia, tota merum mel Probably his wife: 'One full of graces, honey quite unmixed.' Finding fault with nobody, but well pleased with every person and thing! I believe, if you had applied warm treacle to the bruised parts, you would have been well in eight-and-forty hours. Let us work to-day! The night cometh! A little you will pick out of Dr. Boyce's fine music for the use of our plain people. My sister Kezzy was born about March 1710; therefore you could not be born later than December 1708: consequently, if you live till December 1772, you will enter your sixty-fifth year. 'Or, according to Sister Pat's account, my sixty-second. C.W,' Sister Pat (Mrs. Hall) was wrong. The real date was December 1707. See Telford's Charles Wesley, pp. 18-20. Peace be with you and yours! Adieu!","word_count":298,"source_url":null,"themes":["prevenient-grace","free-will","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:06:11.278016"}]}