Wesley Corpus

In any wise you must clip the wings of those local preachers who do not punctually observe your directions. Either mend them or end them. On condition that one horse only be kept in each circuit, I consent to the dividing the circuit into two. Do all you can to procure subscribers for the History. -- I am, dear Sammy, Your affectionate friend and brother. To Mr. Bradbum, At the Preaching- house, In Bradford, Yorkshire. To Henry Fisher [11] LONDON, November 7, 1781. MY DEAR BROTHER, -- The case of Joan Bocher I remember well; and I believe God avenged her death on Archbishop Cranmer. But I do not remember that Queen Elizabeth or King James (bad as they were) burnt any heretics. -- I am Your affectionate brother. To Mr. Fisher, At 187, Opposite Campbell’s Nursery, Hampstead. To Henry Brooke [12] LONDON, November 15, 1781. DEAR HARRY, -- In general there is no great danger of our thinking too meanly of ourselves. Yet it is certain we may undervalue any of the talents which it has pleased God to entrust us with. And this is one of the few cases wherein it is wise to depend on the judgment of a friend rather than on our own. I doubt whether you do not undervalue some of the talents which God has lent you, and whether He will be pleased with your hiding them in the earth instead of employing them to His glory. It would be more pleasing to me to bury myself in silence and solitude. But I should not then be able to give a good account to Him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. Be a follower of me (in your little way) even as I am of Christ. Yours affectionately. To Hannah Ball LONDON, November 17, 1781. ‘Suffered from those you loved most’ [See letter of June 28.] Nay, my dear Hannah, I thought you had loved me as well as any one. And I hope you never suffered from me -- at least, I never designed you should. I would not willingly give you any pain; but I would give you all the comfort that is in my power.