{"id":"jw/letters/1783a/25-to-henry-brooke","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 25 To Henry Brooke","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-25-to-henry-brooke","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1783a-25-to-henry-brooke-000"],"word_count":133,"themes_auto":["free-will","means-of-grace","pneumatology"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1783a-25-to-henry-brooke-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1783a-25-to-henry-brooke-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1783a-25-to-henry-brooke","source_title":"A 25 To Henry Brooke","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Henry Brooke WILLIAM STREET, DUBLIN, April 21, 1783. DEAR HARRY, Your letter gave me pleasure, and pain too. It gave me pleasure because it was written in a mild and loving spirit; and it gave me pain because I found it had pained you, whom I so' tenderly love and esteem. But I shall do it no more: I sincerely thank you for your kind reproof; it is a precious balm and will, I trust, in the hands of the Great Physician, be a means of healing my sickness. I am so sensible of your real friendship herein that I cannot write without tears. The words you mention were too strong; they will no more fall from my mouth. My dear Harry, cease not to pray for Your obliged and affectionate brother.","word_count":133,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","means-of-grace","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:18:38.309385"}]}