Wesley Corpus

DEAR JASPER, -- That the work of God has not prospered in the Salisbury Circuit for several years is none of your fault. I am persuaded you have His work at heart and will do all that is in your power to promote it. So will Mr. Mason [John Mason had just been appointed Assistant at Sarum.]; so will the other preachers. Look for happy days! -- I am Your affectionate brother. To William Sagar LONDON, August 11, 1782. MY DEAR BROTHER, -- Certainly nothing can more effectually stop the work of God than the breaking in of Calvinism upon you. I hope your three preachers will calmly and diligently oppose it, although not so much by preaching as by visiting the people from house to house, dispersing the little tracts as it were with both hands. Your affectionate brother. To Mrs. Cooper LONDON, August 12, 1782. MY DEAR HARRIETT, -- Take place on the coach, and I will pay the expense. Make no delay, but come away immediately to Yours affectionately. Come straight to my house in the City Road, near Moorfields. To Mrs. Harriet Cooper, Liverpool. To Robert Hopkins LONDON, August 13, 1782. DEAR ROBERT, -- I am very well satisfied with your letter. I could take your word in a greater matter than this. The whole seems to have arisen from a misapprehension of your words; so the matter is at an end. [He was now at Norwich, where there were special difficulties, and evidently some unhappy reports.] -- I am Your affectionate brother. To Thomas Davenport [5] BRISTOL, August 14, 1782. DEAR SIR, -- It would have given me a good deal of satisfaction to have had a little conversation with you. But I do not stay long in one place. I have no resting-place on earth: A poor wayfaring man, I dwell awhile in tents below, Or gladly wander to and fro, Till I my Canaan gain. You would have been very welcome at our Conference. Mr. Pugh and Mr. Dodwell were present at it; and I believe are more determined than ever to spend their whole strength in saving their own souls and them that hear them.