{"id":"jw/letters/1788a/57-to-mrs-blachford","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 57 To Mrs Blachford","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-1788a-57-to-mrs-blachford","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-57-to-mrs-blachford-000"],"word_count":170,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-57-to-mrs-blachford-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1788a-57-to-mrs-blachford-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1788a-57-to-mrs-blachford","source_title":"A 57 To Mrs Blachford","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Mrs. Blachford Date: SUNDERLAND, June 3, 1788. MY DEAR MRS. BLACHFORD, You state the case clearly and fairly; and when this is done there is no great difficulty in it. Many other objections and plausible ones might be made to the proposal; hut certainly those two are the strongest of all and the most difficult to be answered: first, her youth and little experience in the things of the world; and secondly, his little experience in the things of God. He has made a good beginning. He has set on well. But who can tell what the end will be By reason of the time we cannot suppose him to be much established yet; and if he should afterwards relapse into his former state, what an insupportable trial must it be to her! In a strange country and separate from all her religious friends! Upon the whole, therefore, I cannot but subscribe to your judgment, that you must do nothing suddenly. I am, my dear sister, Yours most affectionately.","word_count":170,"source_url":null,"themes":["universal-redemption","free-will","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:36.177403"}]}