{"id":"jw/letters/1780a/17-to-alexander-knox","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 17 To Alexander Knox","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-1780a-17-to-alexander-knox","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1780a-17-to-alexander-knox-000"],"word_count":234,"themes_auto":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1780a-17-to-alexander-knox-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1780a-17-to-alexander-knox-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1780a-17-to-alexander-knox","source_title":"A 17 To Alexander Knox","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Alexander Knox Date: NEAR LONDON, January 28, 1780. DEAR ALLECK, - It will certainly be worth your while to make a trial of that mineral water; it is highly probable God will make it a means of lessening if not removing your bodily disorder. That this is in a considerable degree scorbutic I cannot make any question; as one almost constant symptom of the scurvy is a great depression of the spirits.... I cannot advise you in the meantime to shut yourself up at home; it is neither good for your body nor your mind. You cannot possibly have bodily health without daily exercise in the open air; and you have no reason to expect the spirit of an healthful mind unless you use the means that God has ordained. You well know faith cometh by hearing; I should therefore advise you to lose no opportunity of hearing, and trust God with the event. You are not likely to be in a more uncomfortable state than you are already. And which is the greater evil of the two, even supposing the worst Certainly your having two fits is a less evil than your losing fifty precious opportunities. O break through that fear, which is a mere snare of the devil. I commend you and yours to Him that is ready to save you in soul and body; and am, dear Alleck, Yours affectionately.","word_count":234,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:15:47.799705"}]}