{"id":"jw/letters/1784b/37-to-thomas-taylor","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 37 To Thomas Taylor","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-1784b-37-to-thomas-taylor","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1784b-37-to-thomas-taylor-000"],"word_count":186,"themes_auto":["assurance","justifying-grace","reign-of-god"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1784b-37-to-thomas-taylor-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1784b-37-to-thomas-taylor-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1784b-37-to-thomas-taylor","source_title":"B 37 To Thomas Taylor","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Taylor Date: LONDON, December 24, 1784. DEAR TOMMY, - In fifty years I have not met with six mothers who did not suffer their children to cry aloud - no, nor seriously endeavored it. So that I see no manner of need to caution them against that extreme. To speak without reserve, I believe John Valton to be a better Assistant than either you or me. I believe he has more of the Spirit of God resting upon him and is more deeply devoted to God than almost any man or woman I know. And I do not think myself a jot better than him because I was born forty years before him. But I earnestly desire he would go to Bristol, and that you would supply his place as Assistant I am of opinion this is the only possible means of restoring his strength. - I am, with kind love to Sister Taylor, dear Tommy, Yours affectionately. I corrected the last part of the new Hymn-Book this morning. A Collection of Pslams and Hymns for the Lord's Day. See Green's Bibliography, No. 378.","word_count":186,"source_url":null,"themes":["justifying-grace","assurance","reign-of-god"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:19:57.627059"}]}