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Title	Letter to Samuel Lloyd, Merchant
Post Date	December 21, 1768
Author	Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788
Recipient	Lloyd, Samuel, fl. 1749-1766
Date	1768-12-21
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 3 pgs text; 1 pg address
Dimensions	23 x 38 cm
Location (Box, File)	Box 1, File 14
Address To	London
Country To	England
Address From	Bristol
Country From	England
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Transcription	[Address] To Samuel Lloyd Esqr Merchant in London Bristol December 21, 1768 Dear Sir, You told me when in town, ''You did not write to those with whom you have no business.'' But there is no General Rule without an exception. Besides, I have business with you (as your servant for Christ’s sake) and business of the last importance. You always took it kindly when I put you in mind of the one thing needful and expressed my jealous fears lest you should overlook or lose sight of it in your many cares and distractions. I cannot charge myself with unfaithfulness towards you. I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God. He has given me, I am persuaded, a single eye, a sincere disinterested love for your soul, and my heart’s desire and prayer to God for you is that you may be saved! here and hereafter. That you may now receive the experimental knowledge of salvation by the remission of your sins and be found among the sheep in that day! Still I hope to meet you on the Right. Innumerable have been the mercies of your past life, and shall they all be lost? God forbid. He is pursuing you still. He often knocks at the door of your heart. May you, in reading this, hear his voice and open the door! He waits—to be gracious. Even to hoar hairs he has borne, and carried, and delivered you. Account that his longsuffering is salvation. Ask and receive power to give him your whole heart. You have certainly met with many stumbling blocks. But who has not? The Scripture must be fulfilled. It is impossible but that offences should come. The tares grow together with the wheat. Nevertheless (whoever falls) the foundation standeth sure. And blessed is he who is not offended. Blessed is the man whose sin is forgiven. This blessedness may be yours and mine. We have nothing else to do upon earth but to secure it: to live in peace, die in peace, go in peace—to paradise. Mrs Lloyd informs me of your kind mention of me in London. At the same time I heard of your late visit of Bath. You was too nimble for us or I would have caught you there. Give me a beck and I will come a longer journey to see you. ’Tis quite uncertain my coming to London again. But wherever we are still in the body, I shall stir up your mind by way of remembrance. Remember how you have received, and heard, and hold fast your hope of present eternal salvation. Remember Lot’s wife! Remember Demas. Remember one whose bowels yearn over you and who earnestly remembers you still! The night cometh when no man can work out his salvation. Most sensibly I perceive my night cometh. You also are on the brink of eternity. We have neither of us any time to lose. Let us ''manage wisely our last state.'' You may stay behind me a few days or we may take our flight together. The Lord make us ready and find us watching and in peace! Your heart joins in the prayer of, my dear Sir, Your faithful friend and servant C Wesley
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196783
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	1760-1769