Wesley Corpus

To Joseph Benson Date: NORWICH, November 5, 1769. DEAR JOSEPH, I heard that tale, and answered pointblank, 'It is mere invention.' However, I wrote to inquire at the school, so you did well to send a real account both to me and to Ireland. See letter of Jan. 2. 'This gives any one enough of Kingswood School.' Benson had used these words in his letter to Wesley. 'Ah! simple Master Shallow!' as Shakespeare has it, should not I then have enough of it long ago You put me in mind of Sir John Phillips's Sir John was a devout Christian who attended the Religious Societies in London. He was a benefactor of the Holy Club and one of the Georgia Trustees. See Journal, i. 186, 297; viii. 278-82, 301. exclamation when a puff of smoke came out of the chimney, 'Oh, Mr. Wesley, these are the trials which I meet with every day.' I am, dear Joseph, Your affectionate brother.