{"id":"jw/letters/1788a/49-to-dr-coke","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 49 To Dr Coke","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-49-to-dr-coke","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-49-to-dr-coke-000"],"word_count":167,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","christology","communion"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-49-to-dr-coke-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1788a-49-to-dr-coke-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1788a-49-to-dr-coke","source_title":"A 49 To Dr Coke","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"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.","word_count":167,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","communion","christology"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:31.203625"}]}