{"id":"jw/letters/1789a/74-to-rebecca-ingram","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 74 To Rebecca Ingram","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-74-to-rebecca-ingram","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1789a-74-to-rebecca-ingram-000"],"word_count":149,"themes_auto":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1789a-74-to-rebecca-ingram-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1789a-74-to-rebecca-ingram-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1789a-74-to-rebecca-ingram","source_title":"A 74 To Rebecca Ingram","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Rebecca Ingram Date: DUBLIN, June 28, 1789. MY DEAR BECKY, I will tell you my thoughts without the least reserve. These are the rules in the Large Minutes of Conference, that 'no Methodist (and least of all a preacher) ought to marry a woman without the consent of her parents'; and the same thing is insisted upon in one of the sermons in the Arminian Magazine. Therefore I cannot commend Mr. Brown for saying anything to you on that head without the consent of your father. See letters of April 9 and July 5 to her. But I exceedingly approve of your present temper and behavior. I commend your resignation to the will of God. Keep there! Beware of murmuring; beware of fretting; beware of the sorrow which worketh death! I commend you to Him who can save you to the utmost; and am, my dear Becky, Yours.","word_count":149,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:24:08.508279"}]}