{"id":"jw/letters/1783b/37-to-ann-loxdale","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 37 To Ann Loxdale","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-1783b-37-to-ann-loxdale","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1783b-37-to-ann-loxdale-000"],"word_count":162,"themes_auto":["free-will","reign-of-god","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1783b-37-to-ann-loxdale-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1783b-37-to-ann-loxdale-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1783b-37-to-ann-loxdale","source_title":"B 37 To Ann Loxdale","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Ann Loxdale Date: LONDON, December 9, 1783. MY DEAR NANCY, Because I loved you, and because I thought it my duty, I wrote freely to you on a tender point. But I have done. I do not know that I shall speak one word more concerning it. The regard which I have for you will not suffer me to give you any pain which answers no good purpose. So you may still think him as holy as Thomas Walsh; I will say nothing against it. Only beware of one snare of the devil. Do not tack things together which have no real connection with each other: I mean, your justification or sanctification and your marriage. God told you that you was sanctified. I do not say, 'God told you you should be married to that man.' Do not jumble these together; if you do, it may cost you your life. Profit by the friendly warning of, my dear Nancy, Yours affectionately.","word_count":162,"source_url":null,"themes":["reign-of-god","works-piety","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:19:12.530171"}]}