{"id":"jw/letters/1791/02-to-john-fry","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"02 To John Fry","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-1791-02-to-john-fry","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1791-02-to-john-fry-000"],"word_count":188,"themes_auto":["free-will","social-holiness","works-mercy"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1791-02-to-john-fry-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1791-02-to-john-fry-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1791-02-to-john-fry","source_title":"02 To John Fry","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To John Fry Date: CITY ROAD, January 1, 1791. MY FRIEND, The sum of what I said to you and to Dr. Hamilton was this: 'I will revise that part of the Ecclesiastical History; and if I am convinced any of it is wrong, I will openly retract it.' I have revised it again and again, but I am not convinced that any part of it is wrong; on the contrary, I am fully persuaded it is all the naked truth. What the Quakers (so called) are or do now is nothing to the purpose, I am thoroughly persuaded they were exactly such as they are described in this History. Your present summary exactly answers the account Barclay's Apology given in the 135th page of the History. O be content! I love you well; do not constrain me to speak. I do not want to say anything of George Fox; but I hope he was stark mad when he wrote that medley of nonsense, blasphemy, and scurrility styled his 'Great Mystery.' But I love and esteem you and many of the present Quakers; and am Your real friend.","word_count":188,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","social-holiness","works-mercy"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:26:36.272038"}]}