Wesley Corpus

To Rebecca Ingram Date: DUBLIN, June 28, 1789. MY DEAR BECKY, I will tell you my thoughts without the least reserve. These are the rules in the Large Minutes of Conference, that 'no Methodist (and least of all a preacher) ought to marry a woman without the consent of her parents'; and the same thing is insisted upon in one of the sermons in the Arminian Magazine. Therefore I cannot commend Mr. Brown for saying anything to you on that head without the consent of your father. See letters of April 9 and July 5 to her. But I exceedingly approve of your present temper and behavior. I commend your resignation to the will of God. Keep there! Beware of murmuring; beware of fretting; beware of the sorrow which worketh death! I commend you to Him who can save you to the utmost; and am, my dear Becky, Yours.