Wesley Corpus

To his Brother Charles LONDON, June. 30 1755. DEAR BROTHER, Do not you understand that they all promised by Thomas Walsh not to administer even among themselves I think that an huge point given up perhaps more than they could give up with a clear conscience. They 'showed an excellent spirit' in this very thing. Likewise when I (not to say you) spoke once, and again spoke, satis pro imperio. Terence's Phormio, I. iv. 19: 'With authority enough.' When I reflected on their answer I admired their spirit and was ashamed of my own. The practical conclusion was 'Not to separate from the Church.' Did we not all agree in this Surely either you or I must have been asleep or we could not differ so widely in a matter of fact! Here is Charles Perronet raving 'because his friends have given up all' and Charles Wesley 'because they have given up nothing'; and I in the midst, staring and wondering both at one and the other. I do not want to do anything more, unless I could bring them over to my opinion; and I am not in haste for that. I have no time to write anything more till I have finished the Notes. His Notes upon the New Testament were finished this year. See letter of April 9, 1755, and June 18, 1756. Nor am I in haste. I stand open to the fight. Let it be worded any way. I will give ten pounds between this and Christmas; this I think I can do, though I am just now saddled with Suky Hare, Jackson calls Suky Hare 'a relation of the Wesleys.' She was probably the child of the young seamstress whom Hall seduced. See Stevenson's Wesley Family, p. 370; and letter of April 24, 1776. to pay for her board as well as learning her trade. Why do not you send for the boy to Bristol I do not object.