{"id":"jw/letters/1777/70-to-thomas-rutherford","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"70 To Thomas Rutherford","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-1777-70-to-thomas-rutherford","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1777-70-to-thomas-rutherford-000"],"word_count":97,"themes_auto":["assurance","experience","free-will"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1777-70-to-thomas-rutherford-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1777-70-to-thomas-rutherford-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1777-70-to-thomas-rutherford","source_title":"70 To Thomas Rutherford","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Rutherford Date: LONDON, December 20, 1777. DEAR TOMMY, You gave me an agreeable account of the progress of the work of God in the island. I apprehend you will meet with no hindrance from men in power. They know the mind of the King. You cannot with a good conscience receive that froward man either as a leader or a member of the Society unless he acknowledges his fault. Otherwise he would do more hurt in the Society than out of it. I am, dear Tommy, Yours affectionately. I fix no journeys till after Christmas.","word_count":97,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","assurance","experience"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:14:10.513853"}]}