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Title	Letter to Joseph Benson
Post Date	July 31, 1773
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Benson, Joseph, 1749-1821
Date	1773-07-31
Physical Description	2 pgs total; 1 pg text; 1 pg blank with date
Dimensions	21 x 17 cm
Address From	Lewisham
Country From	England
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	[To Joseph Benson] Lewisham July 31, 1773 Dear Joseph I am glad you have preached so much abroad. This will everywhere do most execution. Some time since I promised you to Billy Thompson for his fellow-labourer the ensuing year; and you will have no cause to repent of it for his heart (as well as yours) is in the work. Mr Hopper desires to spend another year in the Newcastle Circuit. I refer (it to him) whether it would not suffice to have preaching at Newcastle five night in a week? “God has made practical divinity necessary and the devil controversial.” Sometimes we must write and preach controversially, but the less the better. I think we have few if any of our travelling preachers that love controversy. But there will always be men [1] –Antinomians and Calvinists in particular. By our long silence we have done much hurt both to them and to the cause of God. I am, dear Joseph, Your affectionate brother J Wesley __________ 1. Titus 1:11, “whose mouths it is necessary to stop.” In the first word of this Greek quotation Wesley omits the acute accent. (Greek quotation not reproduced here.)
Published Transcription	John Telford, ed. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, VI. December 11, 1772, to March 12, 1780.(London: Epworth Press, 1931), p. 35.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=195940
Unique Identifier	JWesley 07311773
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	1770-1779