{"id":"jw/letters/1782a/18-to-joseph-benson","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 18 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-1782a-18-to-joseph-benson","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1782a-18-to-joseph-benson-000"],"word_count":219,"themes_auto":["primitive-christianity","reign-of-god","scriptural-authority"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1782a-18-to-joseph-benson-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1782a-18-to-joseph-benson-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1782a-18-to-joseph-benson","source_title":"A 18 To Joseph Benson","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Joseph Benson Date: LONDON, February 22, 1782. DEAR JOSEH, Who Mr. Tyndall is I know not; but he is just as sound a divine as Mr. Madan. I regard no authorities but those of the Ante-Nicene Fathers; nor any of them in opposition to Scripture. And I totally deny that (supposed) matter of fact that polygamy was allowed among the primitive Christians or that the converts ' who had many wives were not required to put any of them away.' I have not yet time to read over the MS. When I do, I must read it all in a breath. Having talked with my friends, I judge it will be expedient to visit the North this year. I expect to be at Manchester on Wednesday, the 10th of April, and in Yorkshire in the beginning of May. I have no objection to your printing a few copies of those two sermons Benson's Two Sermons on Sanctification (text, I Thess. v. 23-4) were printed by J. Bowling, Leeds, in 1782. 'An Extract from Leighton's Rules for an Holy Life' is appended. to oblige your friends in the neighborhood. I doubt we are not explicit enough in speaking on full sanctification either in public or private. I am, with kind love to Sister Benson, dear Joseph, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":219,"source_url":null,"themes":["scriptural-authority","reign-of-god","primitive-christianity"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:17:25.624100"}]}