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Title	Letter to [Ebenezer] Blackwell
Post Date	May 28, 1757
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Blackwell, Ebenezer
Date	1757-05-28
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 3 pgs text; 1 pg address
Dimensions	22 x 34 cm
Address To	Exchange Alley, London
Country To	England
Address From	Whitehaven
Country From	England
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	To Mr Blackwell In Exchange Alley London Whitehaven 28 May 1757 Dear sir Does the rule still hold, “Out of sight, out of mind”? I am afraid it does with poor Miss Freeman as she does not give me one line in answer to the long letter I wrote from Liverpool. I was in hopes we might have interchanged several letters in less than six weeks’ time. As for you, I presume you are full of business and yet not so full of temporal business as to exclude the thoughts of higher concerns, business that will endure when earth and the works of it are burnt up. Were any thing temporal even to damp or lessen (thought not destroy) our care and zeal for things eternal what could countervail the loss? What could make us amends for the damage thereby sustained? Sometimes, indeed we may go through abundance of business and yet have God in all our thoughts. But is this the case always? Are not even lawful, nay necessary, things at other times a grievous hindrance, especially when we undertake them without suspicion of danger and consequently without any prayer against that danger? In this respect (as in many others) I have lately had peculiar reason to be thankful. In every place people flock about me for direction in secular as well as spiritual affairs. And I dare not throw even this burden off my shoulders, though I have employment enough without it. But it is a burden and no burden. It is no incumbrance, no weight upon my mind. If we see God in all things, and do all for him, then all things are easy. I think it is fourteen or fifteen days since my wife wrote to me. I am afraid she is not well or is angry at my brother and, consequently, with me. If any letters for me come enclosed to Mr Belchier, I will be obliged to you if you will (not send them to her, but) direct them to me at Newcastle where I hope to be in a few days. Wishing all grace and peace to you and yours, I am, dear sir, Your most affectionate servant John Wesley I breakfasted at Keswick last Tuesday.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=195724
Unique Identifier	JWesley 05281757
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