{"id":"jw/letters/1774/53-to-joseph-benson","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"53 To Joseph Benson","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-1774-53-to-joseph-benson","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1774-53-to-joseph-benson-000"],"word_count":128,"themes_auto":["assurance","free-will","justifying-grace"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1774-53-to-joseph-benson-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1774-53-to-joseph-benson-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1774-53-to-joseph-benson","source_title":"53 To Joseph Benson","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Joseph Benson Date: SHEFFIELD, July 26, 1774. DEAR JOSEPH, Certainly an account of the Societies in the Edinburgh Circuit will be expected from you at the Conference. I will then propose the case of Greenock. I am glad you have sent Brother Ferguson the Appeals. I believe Billy Eels might come to you directly, if you wrote to him and to Joseph Cownley. At length I hope good may be done in Scotland, and I incline to prefer your scheme to Dr. Hamilton's. Three preachers may do better than two, provided they change regularly, according to the plan you lay down. I know not but you must make a private subscription and wire over the cupola. 'Be zealous and humble; but never be still!' Dear Joseph, adieu!","word_count":128,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","justifying-grace","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:07:33.234006"}]}