{"id":"jw/letters/1781a/06-to-samuel-bardsley","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 06 To Samuel Bardsley","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-1781a-06-to-samuel-bardsley","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-06-to-samuel-bardsley-000"],"word_count":159,"themes_auto":["assurance","free-will","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-06-to-samuel-bardsley-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1781a-06-to-samuel-bardsley-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1781a-06-to-samuel-bardsley","source_title":"A 06 To Samuel Bardsley","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Samuel Bardsley Date: NEAR LONDON, February 10, 1781. DEAR SAMMY, I did not doubt but you would agree with the people of Sheffield. Rogers was Assistant at Sheffield, with Bardsley as third preacher. They are a lively and affectionate people. I am glad you were so successful in your labor of love for them. That assistance was very seasonable. That misunderstanding, which was troublesome for a season, may now be buried for ever. I am perfectly well satisfied, both of the honesty and affection, both of Brother Woodcroft and Brother Birks. Samuel Birks, of Thorpe. See for portrait of him, aged ninety-five, Methodist Mug. 1825, p. 718; and Everett's Methodism in Sheffield. So Satan's devices are brought to naught. I doubt not but James Rogers and you recommend our books in every place, and the Magazines in particular, which will be a testimony for me when I am no more seen. I am, dear Sammy, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":159,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","social-holiness","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:16:20.595036"}]}