{"id":"jw/letters/1774/19-to-thomas-stedman","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"19 To Thomas Stedman","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-1774-19-to-thomas-stedman","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1774-19-to-thomas-stedman-000"],"word_count":150,"themes_auto":["free-will","prevenient-grace","reign-of-god"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1774-19-to-thomas-stedman-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1774-19-to-thomas-stedman-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1774-19-to-thomas-stedman","source_title":"19 To Thomas Stedman","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Stedman Date: BRISTOL, March 10, 1774. DEAR SIR, I thank you for your welcome present. It pleases God to carry on His work in every part of the nation, although at some places in a more especial manner, particularly in Yorkshire. The Works will be comprised in thirty volumes, two shillings and sixpence each. The twenty-eighth is now in the press. The Preface concludes thus: 'It may be needful to mention one thing more, because it is a little out of the common way. In the Extract from Milton's Paradise Lost and in that from Dr. Young's Night Thoughts I placed a mark before those passages which I judged were most worthy of the reader's notice. The same thing I have taken the liberty to do throughout the ensuing volumes.' Commending you to Him whose you are, and whom you serve, I am, dear sir, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":150,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","reign-of-god","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:07:16.967910"}]}