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To Dorothy Furly (July 11, 1757)

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To Dorothy Furly York
July [11,

1Although the printed version of the letter has ‘July 1’, JW’s Journal shows that he was not in York until July 11 (21:114 in this edn.).

] 1757

Dear Miss Furly,

I cannot write to you now so fully as I would, but I must send a few lines. Mere temptation certainly does not weaken without yielding to temptation. Yet a heaviness and soreness may remain upon the spirit till there is a fresh discovery of the love of God.

A jealous fear of offending God is good. But what have you to do with any other fear? Let love cast it all out, and at the same time make you tenfold more afraid of doing anything, small or great, which you cannot offer up as an holy sacrifice, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

All who are without this fear (and much more all who call it ‘legal’, who revile the precious gift of God, and think it an hindrance to ‘the growing up in Christ’

2Cf. Eph. 4:15.

) are antinomians in the inmost soul. Come not into their secret, my dear Miss Furly, but pray for more and more of that ‘legal spirit’, and you will more and more rejoice.

Your affectionate servant,
John Wesley

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