Wesley Corpus

I expect a good deal of difficulty at this Conference, and shall stand in need of the prayers of you and your friends. [About the Bitstall Chapel case and the state of Kingswood School. See Journal, vi. 437-8.] Peace be with all your spirits! -- I am Yours most affectionately. To George Gidley BRISTOL, July 30, 1783. MY DEAR BROTHER, -- I cannot come into Cornwall myself this year. But I am in hopes one or more of our preachers will make a trial this autumn whether some good may not be done at Bideford. -- I am Your affectionate brother. To Mr. Gidley, Supervisor, In Bide- ford, Devon. To Elizabeth Padbury BRISTOL, August 1, 1783. MY DEAR BETSY, -- I am glad to find that you remember me still, and that your love is not grown cold. I love you much, and I trust always shall; as I doubt not you will always deserve it. I have found several (my own father was one) that could rejoice in the justice as well as mercy of God. But punishing is His strange work: He delights chiefly in showing mercy. I apprehend, when you find those seasons of dryness and heaviness, this is owing either to the agency of the devil, who can easily cloud our mind when God permits, or to the corruptible body pressing down the soul. But believe and conquer all! -- I am, my dear Betsy, Yours affectionately. To Miss Padbury, In Whittlebury. To William Robarts [2] BRISTOL, August 3, 1783. I have taken your advice, and reunited the Taunton and Tiverton Circuits. [The Devon Circuit had been divided into the Taunton and Tiverton Circuits in 1778, which were reunited in 1783.]