{"id":"jw/letters/1790a/44-to-arthur-keene","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 44 To Arthur Keene","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-1790a-44-to-arthur-keene","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1790a-44-to-arthur-keene-000"],"word_count":195,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","social-holiness","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1790a-44-to-arthur-keene-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1790a-44-to-arthur-keene-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1790a-44-to-arthur-keene","source_title":"A 44 To Arthur Keene","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Arthur Keene Date: PARKGATE, LEEDS, April 28, 1790. DEAR ARTHUR, Many years you and I loved as brethren. We were united by no common ties. We took sweet counsel together and walked to the house of God as friends. On a sudden you renounced all intercourse with me, because, you said, I had left the Church. Alas! what a cause! Are such friends as I was to be thrown away for such a reason as this Truly I think such a step would not have been justifiable if I had turned Papist or Mahometan, much less for my turning Presbyterian, if it only had been so. And to your example chiefly was owing the unjust, unkind behavior which I met with from many when I was in Dublin last! Well, I cannot help it; I am to be guided by my own conscience, not that of another man! Many a weary journey have I had to Ireland; I seem now to be fairly discharged. May the peace of God be with you and yours! I do not depend on seeing you any more till we meet in the world of spirits. Dear Arthur, adieu!","word_count":195,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","social-holiness","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:26:00.273593"}]}