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Title	Letter to Samuel Walker, vicar of Truro
Post Date	August 21, 1756
Author	Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788
Recipient	Walker, Samuel, 1714-1761
Date	1756-08-21
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Dimensions	21 x 33 cm
Location (Box, File)	Box 1, File 5
Address To	Truro
Country To	Cornwall, England
Address From	Bristol
Country From	England
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Transcription	[To Samuel Walker, vicar of Truro] Bristol, Aug. 21 [1756] Dear Sir, Your last brings a blessing with it. I hope to consider it fully with my brother, who is expected every hour. I have not time to answer; only in few words. Lay-preaching, it must be allowed is a partial separation; and may, but need not, end in a total one. The probability of it has made me tremble for years past; and kept me from leaving the Methodists. I stay, not so much to do good, as to prevent evil. I stand in the way of my brother’s violent counsellors, the object both of their fear and hate. The regulations you propose are the same in substance which I have been long contending for in vain. God incline my brother’s heart to admit of them! I know he will not hear of laying aside his lay-preachers in so many words. All I can desire of him to begin is 1. To cut off all their hopes of his ever leaving the Church of England. 2. To put a stop to any more new preachers, till he has entirely regulated, disciplined, and secured the old ones. If he wavers still, and trims between the Church and them, I know not what to do. As yet it is in his power, if he exert himself to stop the evil. But I fear he will never have another opportunity. The tide will be too strong for him and bear him away into the gulph of separation. Must I not therefore enter my protest and give up the preachers formally to him? Hoc Ithacus velit[1]: and they impatiently wait for it. The restless pains of bad men to thrust me out from the Methodists seems a plain argument for my continuing with them. I want light; would have no will of my own, but from what is that good and perfect will of God. In my next I may have time for a more particular answer. Be so good to write again; and continue your prayers for, dear sir, Your sincere tho weak and dispised Brother C. Wesley __________ [1] Virgil. Aeneid 2.104 (“This the Ithacan would wish”).
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196604
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4037 pixels high or wide
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1750-1759