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To Sarah Moore (November 22, 1758)
To Sarah Moore
November 22, 1758
My Dear Sister,
Your affectionate brother,
J. Wesley
1Sarah
Moore was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk in
1738, and moved with her parents to
Sheffield four years later. She began to teach at a school
in Sheffield in her seventeenth year; and at eighteen was
appointed the first class-leader at Hallam, walking there from
Sheffield every week for two years. The first Quarterly
Meeting was held in her house at Fargate between 1756 and 1760, and the society held
its meetings there. She married Samuel Knutton, a popular local
preacher at Sheffield, in 1772. See
Everett, Sheffield, 80.
LondonNovember 22, 1758
My Dear Sister,
Praise God for what he hath already done. Let those give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy,
2Moore had apparently
written Wesley about the
sudden death of a young man who had been disrupting Methodist services; cf. Everett,
Sheffield, 126.
but you know a greater deliverance
is at hand. What have you to do but to fight your way through the world, the flesh, and
the devil? It is a good though a painful fight. Unless you yield, you cannot but
conquer. It is true you will first conquer by little and little. For
More of this life and more we have
But there is also an instantaneous conquest: in a moment sin shall be no more. You are gradually dying for a long time. But you will die in a moment. O hasten to that happy time! Pray, strive, hope for it!
I am,Your affectionate brother,
J. Wesley
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