{"id":"jw/letters/1780a/30-to-thomas-wride","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 30 To Thomas Wride","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-30-to-thomas-wride","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1780a-30-to-thomas-wride-000"],"word_count":102,"themes_auto":["assurance","justifying-grace","reign-of-god"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1780a-30-to-thomas-wride-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1780a-30-to-thomas-wride-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1780a-30-to-thomas-wride","source_title":"A 30 To Thomas Wride","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Wride Date: BRISTOL, March 9, 1780. DEAR TOMMY, - I take nothing ill that is meant well. Therefore I take nothing amiss in your letter, because I am fully persuaded you mean well even where you judge ill. Part of what you say I believe, part I do not. But I know you patently believe it. Still, however, you must think and let think. I must act by my own conscience, not yours. And I really have a conscience. And I labor to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. - I am Your affectionate brother.","word_count":102,"source_url":null,"themes":["justifying-grace","reign-of-god","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:15:56.474146"}]}