{"id":"jw/letters/1783a/08-to-zachariah-yewdall","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 08 To Zachariah Yewdall","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-1783a-08-to-zachariah-yewdall","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1783a-08-to-zachariah-yewdall-000"],"word_count":177,"themes_auto":["free-will","prevenient-grace","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1783a-08-to-zachariah-yewdall-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1783a-08-to-zachariah-yewdall-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1783a-08-to-zachariah-yewdall","source_title":"A 08 To Zachariah Yewdall","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Zachariah Yewdall Date: LONDON, February 9, 1785. MY DEAR BROTHER, I am glad you have given another trial to Inishanmon. And why not to Hinscla I am a good deal of your mind. I hope those are only drops before a shower of grace. Over and above the general reasons contained in that tract, a preacher, and above all others a Methodist preacher, has particular reasons for valuing a single life. I am glad Brother Blair Andrew Blair, his new colleague. and you converse freely together: it will preserve you from many snares. There can be no properer person for a trustee than Andrew Laffan. One of Whitefield's converts at Cork in 1751. Wesley appointed him a steward in 1785, and stayed with him in 1787. See Journal, vii. 74d, 271n; Crookshank's Methodism in Ireland, i. 83, 399, 429; and letter of Feb. 9, 1789. I have hope that Robert Blake See letters of Dec. 31, 1782 (to Yewdall), and Feb. 23, 1783. will be more useful than ever. I am Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":177,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","prevenient-grace","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:18:27.011160"}]}