Wesley Corpus

DEAR CHARLES, -- Before going down to preach I just snatch time to write two or three lines. I think your persuasion is not of man but of God. Let none reason you out of it. But, whenever it pleases God to call your father, Sammy and you while I live will find a father and friend in Your affectionate Uncle. To his Brother Charles BRISTOL, March 17, 1788, between four and five. DEAR BROTHER, -- I am just setting out on my northern journey. But I must snatch time to write two or three lines. I stand and admire the wise and gracious dispensation of Divine Providence! Never was there before so loud a call to all that are under your roof. If they have not hitherto sufficiently regarded either you or the Lord God of their fathers, what was more calculated to convince them than to see you hovering so long upon the borders of the grave And I verily believe, if they receive the admonition, God will raise you up again. I know you have the sentence of death in yourself; so had I more than twelve years ago. [In Ireland in 1775. See letter of July 28, 1775, to James Dempster.] I know nature is utterly exhausted; but is not nature subject to His word I do not depend upon physicians, but upon Him that raiseth the dead. Only let your whole family stir themselves up and be instant in Prayer; then I have only to say to each, 'If thou canst believe, thou shalt see the glory of God!' Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Adieu! To The Rev. Mr. C. Wesley, In Chesterfield Street, London. To Adam Clarke STROUD, March 17, 1788. DEAR ADAM, -- I immediately answered the letter which brought the account of Sister Horne's case. [See letter of Jan. 8.] I am afraid they will make willful mistakes and carry your letters to the Isle of Wight.