{"id":"jw/letters/1781a/42-to-his-brother-charles","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 42 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-1781a-42-to-his-brother-charles","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-42-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"word_count":202,"themes_auto":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-42-to-his-brother-charles-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1781a-42-to-his-brother-charles-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1781a-42-to-his-brother-charles","source_title":"A 42 To His Brother Charles","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To his Brother Charles Date: THIRSK, June 27, 1781. DEAR BROTHER, This is the last day of my seventy-eighth year; and (such is the power of God) I feel as if it were my twenty-eighth. The original is endorsed by Charles, 'Brother, July 27, 1781. Young as at 28.' My Journal is ready for Joseph Joseph Bradford, his traveling companion. to transcribe. I wonder why it is that we hear nothing from Madeley. See letter of June 10. Sure, prejudice has not stepped in, or Calvinism! I find no fault with your answer to the gentlemen. But you must expect they will reply (at least in their hearts), Hic nigrae succus loliginis! Horace's Satires, I. iv. 100: 'the juice of the black cuttlefish.' Nay, perhaps they will find, 'You are .inclined to Popery!' Next Saturday I expect to be at Epworth, the second at Boston, the third at Sheffield. I take the opportunity of a broken year to visit those parts of Lincolnshire which I have not seen before but once these twenty years. From several I have lately heard that God has blessed your preaching. See your calling! Cease at once to work and live! Peace be with all your spirits!","word_count":202,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","reign-of-god","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:16:41.562965"}]}