{"id":"jw/letters/1789a/56-to-walter-churchey","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 56 To Walter Churchey","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-1789a-56-to-walter-churchey","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1789a-56-to-walter-churchey-000"],"word_count":178,"themes_auto":["justifying-grace","means-of-grace","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1789a-56-to-walter-churchey-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1789a-56-to-walter-churchey-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1789a-56-to-walter-churchey","source_title":"A 56 To Walter Churchey","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Walter Churchey Date: CLONES, May 25, 1789. MY DEAR BROTHER, I am afraid of delay. I doubt we shall not be able to be as good as our word, although in the last proposals I have protracted the time of delivery till the 1st of August. As you are not a stripling, I wonder you have not yet learned the difference between promise and performance. See letters of May 4 and Aug. 26. I allow at least five-and-twenty per cent.; and from this conviction I say to each of my subscribers (which, indeed, you cannot so decently say to yours), 'Sir, down with your money.' I know Dr. Ogilvie well Probably Dr. John Ogilvie, an extract from whose poem 'Solitude, or The Elysium of the Poets,' in favor of Ossian, appears in Churchey's volume.: he is a lovely man, and an excellent poet. I commend you for inoculating the children. I believe the hand of God is in our present work; therefore it must prosper. Indeed, I love Sister Churchey; and am Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":178,"source_url":null,"themes":["justifying-grace","means-of-grace","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:23:57.936483"}]}