{"id":"jw/letters/1777/65-to-the-reader-of-the-arminian-magazine","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"65 To The Reader Of The Arminian Magazine","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-1777-65-to-the-reader-of-the-arminian-magazine","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1777-65-to-the-reader-of-the-arminian-magazine-000"],"word_count":178,"themes_auto":["free-will","means-of-grace","scriptural-authority"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1777-65-to-the-reader-of-the-arminian-magazine-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1777-65-to-the-reader-of-the-arminian-magazine-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1777-65-to-the-reader-of-the-arminian-magazine","source_title":"65 To The Reader Of The Arminian Magazine","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To the Reader of the ' Arminian Magazine' Date: LEWISHAM, November 24, 1777. It is usual, I am informed, for the compilers of magazines to employ the outside covers in acquainting the courteous reader with the beauties and excellencies of what he will find within. I beg him to excuse me from this trouble: from writing panegyric upon myself. Neither can I desire my friends to do it for me in their recommendatory letters. I am content this Magazine should stand or fall by its own intrinsic value. If it is a compound of falsehood, ribaldry, and nonsense, let it sink into oblivion. If it contains only the words of truth and soberness, then let it meet with a favorable reception. It is usual likewise with magazine writers to speak of themselves in the plural number: ' We will do this.' And, indeed, it is the general custom of great men so to do. But I am a little one. Let me, then, be excused in this also, and permitted to speak as I am accustomed to do.","word_count":178,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","means-of-grace","scriptural-authority"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:14:08.466102"}]}