Wesley Corpus

A 49 To Dr Coke

John Wesley

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To Dr. Coke Date: GLASGOW, May 16, 1788. DEAR SIR, I came hither this morning. There is a fair opening at Dumfries and a prospect of much good. I like your proposal concerning Joseph Cownley, and will talk with him about it if I live to see Newcastle. As I said before, so I say still, I cannot, I dare not, leave the Church, for the reasons we all agreed to thirty years ago in the conference at Leeds. Thus far only I could go. On condition that our people would receive the Lord's supper once a month either at St. Patrick's or their own parish church (the reasonableness of which should be strongly and largely explained), on this condition I would allow Henry Moore to read the morning service at Whitefriar's on the other Sundays. I wonder at the imprudence of Mr. Edward Smyth to say nothing of his unkindness. You did well in changing the stewards at Waterford. I am, dear sir, Yours most affectionately.