Wesley Corpus

MY DEAR SALLY, -- I thank you for the account you have given me. It is full and satisfactory. You describe a very awful scene. The time, I doubt not, was prolonged on purpose that it might make the deeper impression on those that otherwise might soon have forgotten it. What a difference does one moment make! When the soul springs out of time into eternity, what an amazing change! What are all the pleasures, the business of this world, to a disembodied spirit! Let us, therefore, be ready. For the day is at hand! But the comfort is it cannot part you long from, my dear Sally, Yours invariably. To Miss Wesley, In Chesterfield Street, Marybone, London. To Peard Dickinson CHESTER, April 15, 1788. MY DEAR BROTHER, -- My brother never knew the value of Dr. Coke while he lived. [Charles Wesley was afraid that Dr. Coke was leading his brother to take steps which involved separation from the Church of England.] I wish I had an hundred preachers like him. If you expected me to die within the year, you should not have printed so large editions. For you know not who will buy them when I am gone. [A new edition of the four volumes of Wesley's Sermons was published on Jan. 1, 1788, and four other volumes of sermons were in preparation. See Green's Bibliography, No. 397.] While we live let us live in earnest. I have little fear for Sally, much hope for Charles (to whom I wrote lately), and some for Sammy. He certainly fears God. I will have the Tunes s printed as soon as may be. If the corrected copy is lost, they must be printed from the large copy; but the price must be only two shillings and sixpence. Pray consult with T. Olivers where the additional sermons may be most properly inserted. [Tunes left by Mr. Rhodes. See letter of March 13.] I have another ready for the press and two more begun. -- I am Your affectionate brother. To Adam Clarke [13] LIVERPOOL, April 17, 1788.