{"id":"jw/letters/1775/47-to-damaris-perronet","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"47 To Damaris Perronet","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-1775-47-to-damaris-perronet","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1775-47-to-damaris-perronet-000"],"word_count":181,"themes_auto":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1775-47-to-damaris-perronet-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1775-47-to-damaris-perronet-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1775-47-to-damaris-perronet","source_title":"47 To Damaris Perronet","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Damaris Perronet Date: NEAR LEEDS, August 6, 1775. MY DEAR SISTER, I believe my late illness has already answered many wise ends of Providence. It has been a blessing to me and to many others a fresh proof that God doeth all things well. I doubt not but Brother Wood' and his fellow laborer will be still zealous and active for God; and if so, his work will surely increase at Sevenoaks and the Wells as well as other places. Nay, I do not despair of poor Canterbury; it is not out of God's reach. I dreamed last night that the Spaniards were come, and were searching all houses and putting men to the torture. But on a sudden they were vanished out of the land, I could not tell how. My Betsy should not think that I am ever so busy as not to have leisure to read and answer her letters. I think Philothea, too, since I am alive again, should have written to me either in verse or prose. I am, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":181,"source_url":null,"themes":["reign-of-god","trinity","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:08:14.570678"}]}