{"id":"jw/letters/1771/40-to-mary-bosanquet","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"40 To Mary Bosanquet","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-1771-40-to-mary-bosanquet","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1771-40-to-mary-bosanquet-000"],"word_count":122,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1771-40-to-mary-bosanquet-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1771-40-to-mary-bosanquet-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1771-40-to-mary-bosanquet","source_title":"40 To Mary Bosanquet","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Mary Bosanquet Date: LONDONDERRY, June 13, 1771. MY DEAR SISTER, I think the strength of the cause rests there on your having an extraordinary call. So I am persuaded has every one of our lay preachers; otherwise I could not countenance his preaching at all. It is plain to me that the whole work of God termed Methodism is an extraordinary dispensation of His providence. Therefore I do not wonder if several things occur therein which do not fall under the ordinary rules of discipline. St. Paul's ordinary rule was, 'I permit not a woman to speak in the congregation.' Yet in extraordinary cases he made a few exceptions; at Corinth in particular. I am, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":122,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","works-piety"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:05:24.923043"}]}