{"id":"jw/letters/1789b/51-to-william-black","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 51 To William Black","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-51-to-william-black","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1789b-51-to-william-black-000"],"word_count":115,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1789b-51-to-william-black-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1789b-51-to-william-black-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1789b-51-to-william-black","source_title":"B 51 To William Black","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To William Black Date: LONDON, November 21, 1789. MY DEAR BROTHER, Your letter has given me great satisfaction. My fears are vanished away. I am persuaded Brother Wray, Stretton, and you will go on hand in hand, and that each of you will take an equal share in the common labor. I do so myself. I labor now just as I did twenty or forty years ago. By all means proceed by common consent, and think not of separating from the Church of England. I am more and more confirmed in the judgment which our whole Conference passed on that head in the year 1758. I am, my dear brother, Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":115,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","social-holiness","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:24:44.749676"}]}