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Title	Letter to Samuel Lloyd
Post Date	March 22, 1768
Author	Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788
Recipient	Lloyd, Samuel, fl. 1749-1766
Date	1768-03-22
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Dimensions	20 x 32 cm
Location (Box, File)	Box 1, File 13
Address To	Spittlefields, London
Country To	England
Address From	Bristol
Country From	England
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Transcription	[Address] To Samuel Lloyd Esqr in Spittlefields London Dear Sir, I have heard from your namesake the good news which your letter confirms. The Lord redeem you out of all your troubles, intangelements, sins, that you may have nothing to do in your last best days but to live the life and then die the death of the righteous. If ever I met with gratitude or even mercy or justice from man, it was all clear gains, for I never expected it. You, methinks, should know men better than me and be therefore out of the reach of disappointment. ’Tis time for us both to cease from man and put our whole confidence in God. I hope to see you shortly and settle our affair in few minutes. My wife is not rightly satisfied with you. I will simply tell you her reason. (To do her justice, I must say I never knew a sort more free from covetousness and selfishness of every kind.) In the late war she had an opportunity of improving her fortune. You dissuaded her from putting it into the stocks. The words of your letter which made her easy are these, 'Be persuaded that it shall be my care your family shall not be the worse for it'; i.e., for still leaving her 1000 pounds in your hands. She thinks her children will be considerable losers by it; and I cannot find in my heart to blame either her—or you. I have the testimony of my own conscience that throughout our acquaintance I have sought not yours but you. I love your soul with a disinterested love, and if I am made an instrument of your spiritual good and meet you at last on the right among the sheep, it is the only—ample—infinite recompence desired by, dear Sir, Your faithful friend and servant in the gospel C Wesley Bristol, March 22, 1768
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=197207
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2003
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	1760-1769