{"id":"jw/letters/1763/06-to-his-brother-charles","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"06 To His Brother Charles","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":null,"date_precision":"unknown","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"jw-letters","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-letter-1763-06-to-his-brother-charles","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1763-06-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"word_count":191,"themes_auto":["experience","free-will","works-mercy"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1763-06-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1763-06-to-his-brother-charles-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1763-06-to-his-brother-charles","source_title":"06 To His Brother Charles","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To his Brother Charles Date: LONDON, February 26, 1763. DEAR BROTHER, I perceive verba fiunt mortuo Plautus's Poenulus, IV. ii. 18: 'Words are wasted on a dead man.'; so I say no more about your coming to London. Here stand I; and I shall stand, with or without human help, if God is with me. Yesterday Mr. Madan and I with a few more gave the full hearing to the famous Turk and his associate. See letter of Feb. 8. He is an exquisite wretch; was originally a Spanish Jew, afterwards a Turk, then a Papist, then a Jew again, then a Protestant, and now at last (under Mr. Lombardi's wing) a zealous Papist! Concerning his companion we are still in doubt. We fear he is little better; though we cannot prove it. Mr. Gaussen tells us the stroke will come to-morrow evening; the rest say not till Monday. The earthquake which Bell prophesied. The Gaussens were London friends. See C. Wesley's Journal, ii, 217; and previous letter. Let us live to-day! I labor for peace; but they still make themselves ready for battle. Peace be with you and yours! Adieu!","word_count":191,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","works-mercy","experience"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:02:05.911775"}]}