Notes 203
Notes
CHAPTER ONE
Born and Born Again
1. Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival, Volume 1 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth; Westchester, IL: Crossway Books), pp. 43, 44.
2. Ibid., p. 46; George Whitefield's Journals (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1960), pp. 37, 38. Hereafter referred to as Journals.
3. See Paternal Pedigree Chart, Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 39.
4. Ibid., p. 56.
5. Ibid., p. 64.
6. "An Elegy on the Late Reverend George Whitefield," The Journal of Charles Wesley, Volume 2 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, n.d.), p. 419.
7. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 68.
8. Ibid., p. 73; sermon "All Men's Place" in Sermons on Important Subjects, the Reverend G. Whitefield (London: Baynes, 1825), p. 702.
9. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 74.
10. Ibid., p. 76.
CHAPTER TWO
Preaching That Startled the Nation
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 81.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.,p. 85; "Elegy," lines 121-129.
4. Ibid., pp. 86, 87; sermon "The Good Shepherd," Sermons on Important Subjects, p. 733.
5. A Diary of George Whitefield (unpublished), the British Museum, Manuscripts Division, entry May 16, 1736.
6. The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield (Edinburgh and London: Dilly, 1771), pp. 18, 19.
7. Diary, May 18, 1736.
8. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 110.
9. Journal, pp. 110, 111.
10 .Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 114.
11.The Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon, Volume 1 (London, 1840), p. 20.
12. Ibid., p. 25.
13. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 133.
14. Ibid., p. 139.
CHAPTER THREE
Missionary to Georgia
1. The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley, Volume 1 (London: Epworth Press, 1938), p. 138.
2. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 151.
3. Ibid.
4. Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, "The Journal of Secretary Stephens," Supplement to Volume 4, June 4—July 2. Also Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 203.
CHAPTER FOUR
Into the Open Air
1. William Holland, A Narrative of the Work of the Lord in England, (London: Moravian Church Library, Muswell Hill). Also cited in John Wesley's Journal, Volume 1, p. 476. Also in Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 183.
2. John Wesley's Journal, Volume 1, p. 476.
3. Whitefield: Life and Times, pp. 194, 195.
4. Ibid., p. 22\.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 220.
7. Ibid., p. 229.
8. Ibid., p. 240.
9. George J. Stevenson, Memorials of the Wesley Family (London, 1876), p. 216.
10. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 256.
11. Ibid.,'p. 263.
12. Ibid., pp. 263, 264.
13. John Wesley's Journal, Volume 2, p. 167.
14. Ibid., p. 201.
CHAPTER FIVE
Into the Open Air in London
1. John Gillies, Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend George Whitefield (London and Edinburgh: Dilly, 1772), p. 42; Whitefield:Life and Times, pp. 287, 2.88.
2. Ibid., p. 289.
3. Ibid., pp. 289-291.
4. Ibid., pp. 292, 293.
5. Luke Tyerman, Life of the Rev George Whitefield, Volume 1 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877), p. 217.
6. John Foster, Critical Essays (London: Bohn, 1856), p. 70.
7. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 294.
8. Ibid., p. 372.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., pp. 372, 373.
11. Ibid., a 373.
12. Ibid., p. 374.
13. Ibid., pp. 376, 377.
14. Ibid., pp. 373, 374.
CHAPTER SIX
Doctrinal Differences and Sad Divisions
1. John Wesley's Letters, Volume 1, p. 302.
2. Robert Southey, Life of Wesley, Volume 2 (London: Longmans, 1858), p. 208.
3. Sermon "Free Grace," found in various editions of Wesley's Works, and in Sermons on Several Occasions by the Rev John Wesley, M.A., Volume 3 (London: Mason, 1847), p. 359; Whitefield: Life and Times, pp. 310-313.
4. Ibid., p. 315.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid, pp. 316, 317. Also John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (London: Epworth, n.d.), pp. 15, 16.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Doctrinal Convictions
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 1, p. 398.
2. Ibid., pp. 399, 400.
3. Whitefield's Works, Volume 1, p. 67.
4. Ibid., p. 66.
5. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 404.
6. Ibid., p. 406.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p. 407.
9. Ibid., pp. 407, 408.
10. Ibid., p. 408.
CHAPTER EIGHT
The House of Mercy
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 1, p. 433.
2. Ibid., p. 468.
3. Ibid., p. 472.
4. Ibid., p. 439.
5. Ibid., pp. 481, 482.
6. Ibid., pp. 491, 492.
7. Ibid., p. 496.
8. Ibid., p. 506.
CHAPTER NINE
Laboring in the Great Awakening
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 1, pp. 511, 512.
2. Ibid., p. 513.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 517.
5. Tyerman's Whitefield, Volume 1, p. 400.
6. Stated by Wesley's friend, John Whitehead, in his The Life of John Wesley, M.A. and The Life of Charles Wesley, M.A. (New York: Worthington, n.d.),
p. 359.
7. Thomas Prince, Christian History, Volume for 1744, pp. 379, 386; Whitefield: Life and Times, pp. 534, 535.
8. Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth, 1987), pp. 157, 158.
9. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 537.
10. Ibid., p. 538.
11. Ibid., p. 539.
12. The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole. See Leonard W. Larabee, in the William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, VII, 1950, pp. 589, 590. Also Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 541.
13. J. B. Wakely, Anecdotes of the Rev George Whitefield (London: Hodder, 1900), pp. 344, 347.
14. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 575.
15. Ibid., p. 577.
CHAPTER TEN
Whitefield's Darkest Hour
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 45.
2. Ibid., p. 46.
3. Ibid., p. 44.
4. An Letter to the Rev Mr John Wesley in Answer to His Sermon Entitled "Free Grace"; Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 552.
5. Introduction to Sermon "Free Grace," found in any issue of Wesley's Works-, Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 56.
6. Ibid., pp. 71-73.
7. Ibid., pp. 76, 77.
8. Whitefield's Works, Volume 2, p. 466; Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume
2, p. 77.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Scotland
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 86.
2. Ibid., pp. 86, 87.
3. Ibid., p. 88.
4. Ibid., p. 90.
5. Ibid., p. 93.
6. Ibid., p. 95.
7. Ibid., p. 91.
8. Ibid., n. 96.
9. Ibid., pp. 97, 98.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Marriage
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 106.
2. Ibid., p. 107.
3. Ibid., p. 108.
4. Ibid., p. 109.
5. Ibid., p. 110.
6. Ibid., p. 168.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Revival at Cambuslang
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, pp. 122, 123.
2. Ibid., p. 123.
3. Ibid., pp. 124, 125.
4. Ibid., p. 125.
5. Ibid., p. 126.
6. Ibid., pp. 129, 130.
7. Ibid., p. 131.
8. Ibid., pp. 136, 137.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The First Organizing of Methodism
1. Selected Trevecca Letters, 1742-1747, Transcribed and Annotated by Gomer Morgan Roberts, M.A. (Caernarvon: The Calvinistic Methodist Bookroom, 1956), p. 40.
2. Two Calvinistic Methodist Chapels, 1743-1811, "The London Tabernacle and the Spa Fields Chapel," ed. Edwin Welch (London: London Records Society, 1975), pp. 14, 15.
3. The Tabernacle Minutes.
4. Ibid., p. 18.
5. Tyerman's Whitefield, Volume 2, p. 287.
6. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 156.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Meeting the Mob
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 161; Hugh J. Hughes, Life of Howell Harris (London, 1892), pp. 142, 143.
2. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 162; Howell Harris, Reformer and Soldier, ed. Rev. Tom Beynon (Caernarvon: Calvinistic Methodist Historical Society, 1958), p. 35.
3. Cennick's manuscript Memorable Passages Relating to the Awakening in Wiltshire (unpublished), entry of June 23, 1741.
4. John Wesley's Journal, Volume 3, pp. 99, 100.
5. Charles Wesley's Journal, Volume 1, pp. 324, 325.
6. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, pp. 165, 166.
7. Tyerman's Whitefield, Volume 2, p. 115.
8. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 174.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Healing the Wounds and Completing the Work in America
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 180; Christian History, 1744, pp. 395-397.
2. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 181; Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening, pp. 136-142.
3. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 195.
4. Ibid., p. 212.
5. Ibid., p. 233.
6. Ibid., p. 220.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
"Let the Name of Whitefield Perish "
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 249.
2. Ibid., pp. 250, 251.
3. Ibid., pp. 257, 258.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The Gospel to the Aristocracy in England
1. Tyerman's Whitefield, Volume 2, pp. 209, 210; Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, pp. 265, 266.
2. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 269; Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, Volume 1 (London, 1840), p. 179.
3. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 269.
4. Ibid., p. 270.
5. Ibid., p. 271.
6.Ibid., p. 274.
7. Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, Volume 1, p. 225; Whitefield: Life and Times, pp. 277, 278.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
"Let Me Be But the Servant of All"
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 336; John Wesley's Journal,Wolume 3, p. 440.
2. Ibid., p. 439.
3. Whitefield, Works, Volume 3, pp. 44,45; Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 347.
4. Ibid., p. 352.
5. Ibid.
6. Gillies, Memoirs of the Life of Whitefield, pp. 224, 225.
7. Tyerman's Whitefield, Volume 2, p. 475.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Associates
1.John Wesley's Journal, Volume III, p. 96.
2.Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 344.
3.Ibid., p. 375.
4.Ibid., pp. 377, 378; J. E. Hutton, John Cennick. A Sketch (Moravian Publication Office, n.d.), pp. 59, 60.
5. Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 379.
6. Ibid., p. 296.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p. 298.
9. Ibid., p. 300.
10. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3, ed. Leonard W. Larabee (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959), p. 169; Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 442.
11. Ibid, (both sources).
12. Ibid., p. 443.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., p. 444.
15. Ibid., p. 445.
16. Ibid., p. 448.
17. Ibid., p. 453.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Building for God
1. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, p. 354.
2. Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon, Volume 2, p. 379; Whitefield: Life and Times,
3. Ibid., p. 359.
4. Ibid., p. 387.
5. Ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
"Weary in Thy Work, But Not Weaiy of It"
1. Gillies, Memoirs of Whitefield, p. 226.
2. Ibid., p. 231.
3. Whitefield: Life and Times, Volume 2, pp. 407-409.
4. Ibid., p. 407.
5. Ibid., p. 419.
6. Ibid., p. 420.
7. Ibid., pp. 459, 460.
8. Ibid., pp. 456, 457.
9. Eighteen Sermons, by the Rev George Whitefield, "Recorded and Transposed
by Joseph Gurney" (London, 1770).
10. Memoirs of Whitefield, p. 270.
11. Joseph Belcher, A Biography of George Whitefield (New York, 1857), p. 455.
12. Gillies, Memoirs of Whitefield, pp. 271-274; Whitefield: Life and Times, pp. 504-506.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Whitefield Remembered
1. The Journal of the Rev Charles Wesley, M.A., Volume 2 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1980), pp. 418-431, lines 445-456.
2. William Cowper, "Hope," Tyerman's Whitefield, Volume 2, p. 613.
3. Gillies, Memoirs of Whitefield, pp. 362, 363; Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 521.
4. Stephen, Sir James, Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography (London: Longmans, 1883), pp. 384, 385; Whitefield: Life and Times, p. 522.
5. John Foster, Critical Essays, Volume 2 (London: Bohn, 1865), p. 67.
6. J.C. Ryle, Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1978).
7. J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People (Harper ed., 1899), pp. 736, 737.
8. John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Preacher," Complete Poetical Works (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882), p. 254.