These were Wesley’s first contacts with evangelical Christianity and ‘they left a lasting mark’. A Christian’s life should be characterized by a continual desire for greater trust in God. John Newton’s letter to a certain Captain Clunie, dated 12 October 1776, reflects this well: I long to have a more entire submission to his will, and a more steadfast confidence in his word, to trust him and wait on him, to see his hand and praise his name in every circumstance of life great and small. The more