Wesley Corpus

To Peggy Dale Date: WITNEY, August 27, 1767. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1767) Author: John Wesley --- MY DEAR PEGGY,--I thought it was hardly possible for me to love you better than I did before I came last to Newcastle. But your artless, simple, undisguised affection exceedingly increased mine. At the same time it increased my confidence in you, so that I feel you are unspeakably near and dear to me. Oh what a cordial is this which is given to quicken us in our way! Surely An earnest of our great reward On earth our Master pays! We have all reason to give ourselves up to Him without reserve and to glorify Him with our bodies and with our spirits! If you cleave to Him with simplicity of heart, certainly you need not feel sin any more. Indeed, you will feel temptation of various kinds, and sometimes closing you in on every side. But still your soul may stand fast, believing on the Lord. By faith you will overcome all! Believe, while saved from sin's remains! Believe yourself to heaven . --I am, my dear Peggy, Your affectionate brother. Don't forget what you have learnt in music. [She married Charles Avison the organist.]