I still find, and find it to my comfort, that I am not in the number of the rich. If I am not, I am not in the number of them that are in danger of falling into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
— John Wesley Early Modern

Founder of Methodism

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Letter to his brother Charles

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1744

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