Wesley Corpus

To Joseph Benson Date: SEVENOAKS, December 12, 1774. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1774) Author: John Wesley --- DEAR JOSEPH,--You know Dr. Hamilton imagined great good would be done by the preaching in the churchyard at Dunbar. If it does not answer ought not the Dunbar preacher to serve all the country places, that the Edinburgh preacher may have the more time to spend there, which is of far greater importance It is the Scots only whom, when they like a preacher, would choose to have him continue with them Not so; but the English and Irish also--yea, all the inhabitants of the earth. But we know our calling. The Methodists are not to continue in any one place under heaven. We are all called to be itinerants. Those who receive us must receive us as such. And if the Scots will not, others will. Brother Watkinson is welcome to those books, and any other which he thinks would be useful to him.--I am, dear Joseph, Your affectionate friend and brother.