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Title	Letter to Mrs. Elizabeth Bennis
Post Date	July 24, 1769
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Bennis, Eliza, d 1802
Date	1769-07-24
Physical Description	2 pgs total; 1 pg text; 1 pg address
Dimensions	20 x 16 cm
Address From	Dublin
Country From	Ireland
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	[To Elizabeth Bennis] Dublin, July 24, 1769 My dear sister If the reading over your papers has no other effect, this it certainly has: it makes me love you abundantly better than I did before. I have now a more intimate knowledge of you: I enter more into your spirit, your temper, and hopes, and fears, and desires, all which tends to endear you to me. It is plain, one of your constant enemies, and the most dangerous of all, is evil reasoning. Accordinglly, the thing which you chiefly want is Christian simplicity. Brother Bourke and you should carefully watch over one another in that respect. And let each deal faithfully with the other. Let there be no reserve between you. Encourage one another also to pray for and expect the continual and direct witness of the Spirit. They are by no means the best part of our preachers in any sense who doubt of this. I know but of one who had experienced the thing that doubted concerning the witness, namely James Oddie. And I am afraid that for some time he has experienced neither the one nor the other. Two of your books I send back by that lovely woman Jenny Moore; the third I must borrow a little longer. My dear friend, remember Your affectionate brother, J Wesley
Published Transcription	John Telford, ed. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, V. February 28, 1766, to December 9, 1772. (London: Epworth Press, 1931), pp. 142-3.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=195857
Unique Identifier	JWesley 07241769
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	1760-1769