{"id":"jw/letters/1789b/36-to-laurence-frost","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 36 To Laurence Frost","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-1789b-36-to-laurence-frost","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1789b-36-to-laurence-frost-000"],"word_count":129,"themes_auto":["free-will","means-of-grace","scriptural-authority"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1789b-36-to-laurence-frost-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1789b-36-to-laurence-frost-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1789b-36-to-laurence-frost","source_title":"B 36 To Laurence Frost","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Laurence Frost Date: LONDON, October 23, 1789. MY DEAR BROTHER, You are a bold people! Two hundred pounds purchase money besides nine hundred pounds! But I do not use to damp any good design. Go on in the name of God. It is true your deed is clumsy enough. I am surprised that no Methodist will take my advice. I have more experience in these things than any attorney in the land. And have I not the Methodist interest as much at heart Oh, why will you alter the beautiful deed we have already why will you employ any attorney at all Only to seek a knot in a bulrush; only to puzzle the cause. Well, comfort yourselves. You will not long be troubled with Your affectionate brother.","word_count":129,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","means-of-grace","scriptural-authority"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:24:35.426619"}]}