{"id":"jw/letters/1788a/06-to-thomas-roberts","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 06 To Thomas Roberts","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-1788a-06-to-thomas-roberts","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-06-to-thomas-roberts-000"],"word_count":100,"themes_auto":["christology","free-will","reign-of-god"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-06-to-thomas-roberts-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1788a-06-to-thomas-roberts-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1788a-06-to-thomas-roberts","source_title":"A 06 To Thomas Roberts","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Roberts Date: LONDON, January 18, 1788. MY DEAR BROTHER, As the matter is now decided, I hope you are able to say, 'Lord, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.' I commend you for entirely giving up the matter when you found her parents were absolutely against it. See letters of Dec. 22, 1787, and Feb. 12, 1789. I hope you will think of it no more, but will be now more unreservedly devoted to God than ever! I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother. I do not see that you should quit the circuit.","word_count":100,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","christology","reign-of-god"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:08.647138"}]}