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Title	Letter to Samuel Furly
Post Date	April 16, 1756
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Furly, Samuel
Date	1756-04-16
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 2 pgs text; 1 pg address; 1 pg blank
Dimensions	19 x 31 cm
Address From	Dublin
Country From	Ireland
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	To Mr Sam[uel] Furly At Queen’s College Cambridge Dublin Goodfriday 1756 How? Going up to town? Are you stark, staring mad? Will you leap into the fire with your eyes open? Keep off. What else have you to do? Fly for your life, for your salvation. If you thus tempt the spirit of God any more, who knows what may be the consequence? I should not wonder at all to hear you was confined in St Luke’s Hospital. And then farewell study! Farewell all hope, either of intellectual or moral improvement. For after this poor machine has received a shock of that kind, it is never more capable of close thinking. If you have either sense or religion enough to keep you close to the college, it is well. If not, I see but one possible way to save you from destruction, temporal and eternal. Quit the college at once. Think of it no more. And come away with me. You can take a little advice from me; from other people, none at all. You are on the brink of the pit. Fly away or you perish. There is no disagreement at all between the “Reflections” and the Address to the Clergy. I have followed Mr Norris’ Advice these thirty years, and so must every man that is well in his senses. But whether you study more or less does not signify a pin’s point. You are taking all this pains in a sinking ship. Stop the leak, stop the leak the first thing you do. Else what signifies it to adorn the ship? If we could divide As to the qualifications of a gospel minister, grace is necessary, learning is expedient. Grace and supernatural gifts are ninety-nine parts in an hundred. Acquired learning may then have its place. I am, dear Sammy, Yours affectionately J Wesley
Published Transcription	John Telford, ed. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, III. March 28, 1749, to January 10, 1758. (London: Epworth Press, 1931), p. 175.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=195721
Unique Identifier	JWesley 04161756
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2003
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4037 pixels in height or width.
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