{"id":"jw/letters/1790b/38-to-samuel-wood","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 38 To Samuel Wood","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-1790b-38-to-samuel-wood","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1790b-38-to-samuel-wood-000"],"word_count":98,"themes_auto":["scriptural-authority"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1790b-38-to-samuel-wood-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1790b-38-to-samuel-wood-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1790b-38-to-samuel-wood","source_title":"B 38 To Samuel Wood","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Samuel Wood October, 1790. DEAR BROTHER, I have delivered my opinion upon this subject in one of the sermons in the Arminian Magazine, and I again say that though a parent has not a positive authority yet he has a negative i.e., though a child is not obliged to marry whom its parent pleases, yet it ought not to marry whom he forbids, especially a daughter; and when a marriage has been contrary to a religious and prudent parent's opinion and counsel, I have rarely known it to be a happy one. I am Your affectionate brother.","word_count":98,"source_url":null,"themes":["scriptural-authority"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:26:29.135570"}]}