Wesley Corpus

To Abraham Orchard Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1783) Author: John Wesley --- [January 1], 1783. DEAR BROTHER, -- You have reason to be thankful to God for enabling you to set out in His good way; and if you would go on therein, remember that you cannot walk alone. Therefore your wisdom is, not to think much of shame or the fear of any temporal matter, to connect yourself in the dosest manner you can with those you believe to be the children of God. A form of prayer used in private may be of considerable use; only now and then, at the beginning or middle or end of it, you may break out a little and speak a few words, just according to the present temper of your mind. When your sins are forgiven, you will surely be sensible of it; and ‘every one that seeketh findeth.’ But it will be given you without money and without price; you know not how soon I Perhaps now! -- I am Yours affectionately.