Wesley Corpus

To Peard Dickinson Date: NEAR STOCKPORT, April 2, 1790. MY DEAR BROTHER, The settling in a new house must needs be attended with some hurry and inconvenience. Dickinson lived near City Road Chapel. See letters of April 29, 1788, and April 28, 1790 (to Sarah Wesley). But the conveniences on the other hand will more than avail if you are careful to make your full use of them. I hope you will be resolute as to your time of going to bed and rising in the morning; that I may have one curate at least who will join me herein in setting a pattern to the flock. And I pray you fight against slowness, not only in reading Prayers, but in all things great and small. Ne res omnes tardi gelideque ministrat. Apparently his adaptation of Horace's Ars Poetica, line 171: quod res oranes tirnide gelideque rninistrat. Be lively! Be quick! Bestir yourself! In everything make haste, though without hurry. I am glad you attend the children. Your labor will not be in vain. My health rather increases than decreases. I think the summer will either kill or cure me. All is good. Peace be with you and yours! I am Your affectionate friend and brother.