Wesley Corpus

To Thomas Longley Date: LONDON, November 5, 1785. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1783) Author: John Wesley --- MY DEAR BROTHER, -- What you mention is an exceeding odd case. I hardly remember the like. I refer Samuel Edwards wholly to you. If you cannot trust him, he must go home. If you can, you may receive him again as a fellow laborer -- that is, if he is sensible of his fault, of his very uncommon pride and stubbornness and unadvisableness, contrary both to religion and to reason. But you can’t receive him unless he promises for the time to come to take your advice or reproof, not as an affront, not as ‘trampling him under-foot,’ but as a favor and an act of real kindness. -- I am Your affectionate friend and brother.