28 The Works of John Wesley, ed. Albert C. Outler, vol. 3 (1986), Sermon 108 ‘On Riches’, para. 8: ‘Nearly related to anger, if not a species of it, are fretfulness and peevishness. But are the rich more assaulted by these than the poor? All experience shows that they are. One remarkable instance I was a witness of many years ago. A gentleman of large fortune, while we were seriously conversing, ordered a servant to throw some coals on the fire. A puff of smoke came out. He threw himself back in his chair and cried out, “O Mr Wesley, these are the crosses which I meet with every day!” I could not help asking, “Pray, Sir John, are these the heaviest crosses you meet with?” Surely these crosses would not have fretted him so much if he had had fifty instead of five thousand pounds a year!’ (pp. 526–7). The ‘gentleman of large fortune’ was Sir John Phillipps (c. 1701–64).