Wesley Corpus

You used to meet me when I came near you; but you seem of late to have forgotten Your old friend and brother. To the Rev. Walter Sellon, At Ledsham, Near Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. To Thomas Carlill LONDON, January 12, 1784. DEAR TOMMY, - It gives me pleasure to have so good an account of all your fellow laborers. Go on in one mind and one spirit, and your labor will not be in vain. I have received one or two uncommon letters from your wise friend at Lowth. It would have been cruelty to the people if you had suffered him to continue leader of a class. Be in earnest to spread the magazines. - I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother. To Thomas Carlill, At the Preacher's House, In Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. To Joseph Taylor LONDON, January 12, 1784. DEAR JOSEPH, - I am sorry that so useful a man as Brother Lewly [Taylor had moved from Cornwall West to Gloucester, where he appears in the Minutes for 1784. See letter of Jan. 12, 1791, to Edward Lewly.] was constrained to leave Worcester. But I am not sorry that the books are delivered into your hands, as I am clearly persuaded a far greater number of them will be disposed of. Take care of the select societies as well as the bands. - I am, dear Joseph, Your affectionate friend and brother. To Mrs. Parker [3] NEAR LONDON, January 21, 1784. MY DEAR SISTER, - I have taken time to consider your letter calmly; and now I will speak freely to you concerning it. You assign three reasons for discarding the Methodist preachers: one, because several who had left your chapel promised to join you again, on condition that you would suffer the Methodists to preach there no more; a second, that these preached perfection; and a third, that while one of them was preaching several persons were suddenly and violently affected. But are these reasons valid Let us coolly and impartially consider them before God.