{"id":"jw/letters/1783b/24-to-elizabeth-padbury","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 24 To Elizabeth Padbury","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-1783b-24-to-elizabeth-padbury","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1783b-24-to-elizabeth-padbury-000"],"word_count":107,"themes_auto":["means-of-grace","social-holiness","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1783b-24-to-elizabeth-padbury-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1783b-24-to-elizabeth-padbury-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1783b-24-to-elizabeth-padbury","source_title":"B 24 To Elizabeth Padbury","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Elizabeth Padbury Date: LONDON, October 29, 1783. MY DEAR BETSY, I love to see anything that comes from you, although it be upon a melancholy occasion. Nothing can be done in the Court of King's Bench till the latter end of next week at the soonest, and till then I am trying all milder means which may possibly avail. If nothing can be done this way, we can but fight at Sharp's. But prayer and fasting are of excellent uses; for if God be for us, who can be against us Probably I may visit you this winter. I always am, dear Betsy, Yours most affectionately.","word_count":107,"source_url":null,"themes":["works-piety","means-of-grace","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:19:03.096090"}]}