Wesley Corpus

His letters (as vilely as they have been misrepresented) breathe the very spirit of the gospel. You might read them, to learn how to return good for evil, to bless them that curse you. O beware that no bitter spirits infuse bitterness into you I Keep all the love that God has given you! and never rest till all your heart is love! Peace be with your spirits!--I am, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother. To Mrs. Turner, Grocer, In Trowbridge. To Ann Bolton BRISTOL, September 20, 1772. MY DEAR SISTER,--You have no time to lose, unless you would throw away your life, which you have no authority to do. You should have had no blister [See letter of July 1 to her.] had I been near you. I judge your case to be chiefly rheumatical. Change of air is likely to do you more good than an hundred medicines. Come away, come away. Set out the very day after you receive this. You may come first to me in the Horsefair; and if need be, I can show you to Sally James. [ See letters of May 1, 1772, and Nov. 29, 1774 (to Sarah James).] I need not tell you how welcome you will be to, my dear Nancy, Yours affectionately. To Miss Bolton, In Witney, Oxfordshire. Francis Asbury says in his Journal on October 10, 1772: 'I received a letter from Mr. Wesley, in which he required a strict attention to discipline; and appointed me to act as Assistant.' The letter is not known. To Philothea Briggs October 19, 1772. The difference between temptation and sin is generally plain enough to all that are simple of heart; but in some exempt cases it is not plain: there we want the unction of the Holy One. Voluntary humility, calling every defect a sin, is not well-pleasing to God. Sin, properly speaking, is neither more nor less than 'a voluntary transgression of a known law of God.' To Penelope Newman WYCOMBE, October 23, 1772.