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To William Allwood (Septemer 13, 1758)
To William Allwood
September 13, 1758
My Dear Brother,
J. Wesley
1While the address is not visible, William Allwood had been assigned to
serve the York circuit the previous month with Thomas Mitchell and Thomas Tobias (see 10:287 in this
edn.), one of Wesley's itinerant preachers on the
York 'Round' or circuit (see 21:206, n. 9 in this
edn.) JW often spelled
his last name
'Alwood',
but his own signature
included the second 'l'.
BristolSeptember 13, 1758
My Dear Brother,
2This is apparently John Gibbs, who was accepted as an
itinerant at the August
1758 Conference (see 10:282 in this edn.); perhaps he had been preaching in
York previously, or maybe he stayed in
York even though he was assigned by Conference to
Cornwall (see 10:286 in this edn. and JW's letter to Allwood on Oct. 15, 1758)
was not liked at those places and tell
him frankly what has
been amiss. Write again and hasten brother Tobias.3Thomas Tobias (d. 1767) was a native of Wales who appears in the
Minutes as a traveling preacher in 1755 (10:272 in this edn.) and served until his death in early 1767. See Atmore, Memorial, 428–30.
Lincolnshire is now fully supplied without him.
is fast in
Sussex as yet; I have letter upon letter to desire
he may not leave it, and
I suppose he will not stir
from thence till I <go5A small portion of the manuscript is
torn away, but can be reconstructed in the two lines affected.
> myself and
fetch him.
I <know> no reason at all why you should not feel always what you felt then. The gifts of God are all without repentance on his part. He is willing to give always what he gives once, and what more than you feel, Ruth Hall
6This
is JW's first mention
of Mrs. Ruth Hall (maiden
name unknown). She was born
in Woolley, Yorkshire in 1732,
converted in York in 1752, married in
1753, and claimed entire sanctification in 1757. JW carried on extensive correspondence with her between 1759 and 1762, though only his published transcriptions of her
letters survive. See 'A Short Account of Ruth Hall', AM 4 (1781): 477–80.
experiences—it is all
for you. Only be not afraid of knowing yourself, of seeing the
inbred monster's face. I am, with love to her and all our friends,
Your affectionate brother,J. Wesley
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