Wesley Corpus

WORCESTER, July 7, 1777. MY DEAR BROTHER, I advise all that will take my advice to abide where they are called, and not to 'heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.' 2 Tim. iv. 3. So I advise all that were brought up in the Church to continue in the Church. See letter of Oct 1, 1778 It never entered my thoughts to advise them to hear none but Methodists. I am Your affectionate brother. To Joseph Benson WORCESTER, July 8, 1777. Yours affectionately. To John Bredin HAVERFORDWEST, July 17, 1777. MY DEAR BROTHER, John Floyd, who is in Dublin, comes over to the Conference, Floyd was stationedin Bristol in 1776 and Leeds in 1777. and will bring your accounts and money to Bristol. Push out wherever you can into new places. I think you need go no farther than Cork and Brandon next year. Meantime do, not so much or so much, but all you can for God. I am Your affectionate friend and brother. To Mr. Bredin, At Mr. John Fitzhenry's, At Bollimore, Near Goree, Ireland. To Mrs. Barton BRISTOL, July 29, 1777. MY DEAR SISTER, It is well that you have learned to say, ' The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.' Your child is gone but a little before you. How soon shall we overtake her! It is no way inconsistent with Christian resignation to ask conditionally, ' Let this cup pass from me '; only with the addition,' Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou writ.'