{"id":"jw/letters/1779/11-to-charles-delamotte","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"11 To Charles Delamotte","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-1779-11-to-charles-delamotte","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1779-11-to-charles-delamotte-000"],"word_count":179,"themes_auto":["justifying-grace","means-of-grace","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1779-11-to-charles-delamotte-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1779-11-to-charles-delamotte-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1779-11-to-charles-delamotte","source_title":"11 To Charles Delamotte","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Charles Delamotte Date: LONDON, February 11, 1779. MY DEAR BROTHER, - I am agreeably surprised with a letter from my old friend, whom I long desired to see; and how I missed of seeing you when I was last at Barrow I cannot yet comprehend. It is very probable I shall have some more work to do with regard to that wretched infidel. For if Dr. Bealey, the publisher of his Works, prefixes to them a flaming panegyric, I shall think it my duty to deal exceeding plainly both with the author and the translator. I am now in my seventy-sixth year, and am by the wonderful mercy of God in at least as good health as I was in my twenty-sixth, and in some respects better. So when it pleases Him He bids the sun of life stand still And stops the panting soul. I am glad you speak a word to your brethren on behalf of our good Master. This is worth living for. - Believe me to be, as ever, dear Charles, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":179,"source_url":null,"themes":["works-piety","justifying-grace","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:14:39.302795"}]}