{"id":"jw/letters/1785b/53-to-mrs-bradburn","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 53 To Mrs Bradburn","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-1785b-53-to-mrs-bradburn","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1785b-53-to-mrs-bradburn-000"],"word_count":121,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1785b-53-to-mrs-bradburn-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1785b-53-to-mrs-bradburn-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1785b-53-to-mrs-bradburn","source_title":"B 53 To Mrs Bradburn","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Mrs. Bradburn December 31, 1785. MY DEAR BETSY, - I write you a few lines because I think you stand in need of comfort; and I would give you all in my power, as I know you would me on a like occasion. I will tell you how to do it then: Look kindly on them that have wronged you most. Speak civilly, yea affectionately, to them; they cannot stand it long: Love melts the hardness that in rocks is bred; A flint will break upon a feather-bed. I have set my heart upon your being a happy woman and overcoming all your enemies by love; and then I shall be more than ever, my dear Betsy, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":121,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","social-holiness","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:20:49.913508"}]}