Wesley Corpus

To Samuel Furly Date: LONDON, SNOWSFIELDS, December 4, 1756. DEAR SIR, I did not mention any particular book, because I did not recollect any that was particularly proper. But either Mr. Allen's Alarm in the Christian Library Vol. xxiv. Joseph Allein's An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners. or Vindiciae Pietatis may do well. I saw nothing amiss in your meeting with Mr. Drake See letters of Nov. 20, 1756, and July 12, 1757. but that the time was too short. See previous letter. You should read the closest and most searching books you can, and apply them honestly to each other's heart. As to yourself, principlis obsta: the first look or thought! Play not with the fire no, not a moment. Then it cannot hurt you. Mr. Drake must determine for himself as to conversing with those gentlemen. If he feels any hurt from it, he must abstain; if not, he may converse with them sparingly that is, if there be but a faint, distant prospect of doing them any good. I have no receipts or proposal; so they may be sent in my next. I have answered about an hundred and forty pages of John Taylor See letter of June 18.; but it has cost me above an hundred and twenty. Sammy, never trifle more! I am Yours affectionately.