{"id":"jw/works/a-remarkable-providence","corpus":"jw-works","type":"treatise","author":"john-wesley","title":"Treatise A Remarkable Providence","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-works","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-treatise-a-remarkable-providence","passage_ids":["jw-treatise-a-remarkable-providence-000"],"word_count":320,"themes_auto":["assurance","free-will","means-of-grace"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-treatise-a-remarkable-providence-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-treatise-a-remarkable-providence-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-treatise-a-remarkable-providence","source_title":"Treatise A Remarkable Providence","source_type":"treatise","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"A Remarkable Providence A GENTLEMAN walking with Mr. Chapoon, (uncle to Mr. Roquet) in Moorfields, proposed stepping into Bedlam. After they had walked there awhile, they were turning to go out, when a young woman cried, \"Sir, I desire to speak with you.\" His friend said, \"Sure, you will not stay to hear a mad woman's tale.\" He answered, \"Indeed I will:\" On which the other went away. She then said, \"My father left me and my fortune in the hands of my uncle. A young gentleman offered me marriage, and all things were agreed 498 Account of THE BROTHERs' sTEPs. on; when one morning my uncle took me out with him in the chariot, as he said, to see a friend; but instead of this he brought me to Bedlam, where I have been confined ever since.\" \"Your story is plausible,\" said Mr. C.; \"but how shall I know it is the truth?\" \"Very easily,\" said she, \"The gentleman that was to marry me lives within a day's journey of London. Write to him; and tell him you have something to say concerning me, and would be glad to meet him at such a place in town. If he does not come, let this all pass for a mad woman's dream.\" Mr. C. wrote, and asked the gentleman, who came to the place appointed, whether he knew such a person. He answered, \"Perfectly well. We were to have been married before now ; but her uncle sent me word she was taken ill.\" Mr. C. then told him the whole story. He immediately sent to her uncle; who was very ready to take her out, and pay her fortune, to avoid farther trouble. So the curiosity of one to see a strange place, and of another to hear a strange tale, was a means of detecting a notorious scene of villany, and of setting an innocent sufferer at liberty","word_count":320,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","means-of-grace","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T07:01:15.460692"}]}