Notes
NOTES
Preface: Lightning from a Cloudless Sky
1. Iain H. Murray, Heroes (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2009), 53.
2. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1996), 107.
3. Murray, Heroes, 49.
Chapter One: A Force for the Gospel
1. C. H. Spurgeon Autobiography, Vol. 2 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1898), 66.
2. Whitefield, Letter 110, The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. I (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771), 105.
3. W. Cooper, “Mr. Cooper’s Preface to the Reader,” The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2, revised and corrected by Edward Hickman (1834, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1979), 258.
4. John Newton, quoted by J. B. Wakeley, Anecdotes of the Rev George Whitefield (1879, repr.; Weston Rhyn, England: Quinta, 2003), 20.
5. Augustus Toplady, “A Concise Character of the Late Rev. Mr. Whitefield,” in The Works of Augustus Toplady, B A (London: J. Chidley, 1837), 494.
6. J. C. Ryle, The Christian Leaders of the Last Century (1868, repr.; Moscow, Ida.: Charles Nolan, 2002), 44.
7. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, Vol. II (1898, repr.; Pasadena, Tex.: Pilgrim, 1992), 66.
8. Ian R. K. Paisley, “George Whitefield—Or From Pub to Pulpit: A Sermon Preached on the 250th Anniversary of Whitefield’s Birth” (Belfast: Puritan, 1964), 1.
9. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1996), 104, 111.
10. Paisley, “George Whitefield,” 1.
11. Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, Volume II (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1974), 307.
12. Michael A. G. Haykin, The Revived Puritan (Dundas, Ontario: Joshua, 2000), 33. [Harry S. Stout, “Heavenly Comet,” Christian History, 38 (1993), 13.]
13. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 105.
14. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 106.
15. Arnold A. Dallimore, George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1990), 17.
16. Ibid., 17.
17. George Whitefield’s Journals (1738–1741, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1998), 58.
18. George Whitefield’s Letters (1771, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1976), 16.
19. Whitefield’s Journals, 80.
20. Whitefield’s Journals, 89, 83.
21. George Whitefield as quoted by Robert Philip, The Life and Times of George Whitefield (1837, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2007), 103–104.
22. Whitefield’s Journals, 260–277.
23. Whitefield’s Journals, 277.
24. Whitefield, Letter 300, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. I (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771), 277.
25. Whitefield, Letter 1414, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. III (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771), 387.
26. Whitefield’s Journals, 227.
27. Whitefield, Letter 1004 (cf. Letter 1389, 372), in Works, Vol. III, 42.
28. Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival, Vol. 1 (1970, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1995), 268.
29. Haykin, The Revived Puritan, 33–34. [The Journal of the Rev John Wesley, A.M., ed. Nehemiah Curnock (1911 ed.; repr. London: Epworth, 1960), II, 256–257, n.1.]
30. Andrew A. Bonar, Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1844, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2009), 146.
31. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 110.
32. J. I. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word: The Reformational Revivalism of George Whitefield,” in The Bible, the Reformation and the Church: Essays in Honor of James Atkinson, ed. W. P. Stephens (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic, 1995), 167.
33. Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Selected Writings, ed. Dixon Wecter and Larzer Ziff (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967), 110.
34. Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003), 111.
35. Amos Stevens Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, Reverend George Whitefield: Prince of Pulpit Orators and Specimens of His Sermons (1878, repr., Charleston, S.C.: Nabu, 2010), 180.
36. Whitefield’s Journals, 477.
37. Jonathan Edwards, as quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards, ed. Stephen J. Stein (New York: Cambridge, 2007), 137.
38. Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards (New York: William Sloan Associates, 1949), 134.
39. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, 187.
40. Wakeley, Anecdotes, 61.
41. Whitefield, Letter 1170, in Works, Vol. III, 208.
42. Dallimore, George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant, 196.
43. Mr. M’Cullock, quoted by Robert Philip, The Life and Times, 376.
44. Whitefield, Letter 547, in Works, Vol. II, 52.
45. Whitefield, Letter 784, in Works, Vol. II, 289.
46. The Journal of John Wesley (Chicago: Moody, 1974), 284.
47. John Gillies, Memoirs of George Whitefield (New Haven, Conn.: Whitmore and Buckingham and H. Mansfield: 1834), 216.
48. Sir Marcus Loane, Oxford and the Evangelical Succession (Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2007), 55.
49. John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions, Volume 1 (London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, 1829), 596.
50. J. C. Ryle, “George Whitefield and His Ministry,” in Select Sermons of George Whitefield, ed. J. C. Ryle (1958, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1997), 32.
Chapter Two: A Life of Singular Devotion
1. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 104–105.
2. J. C. Ryle, Select Sermons of George Whitefield (1958, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1997), 41.
3. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word,” 173.
4. Mark A. Noll, “Pietism,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1999), 855–856.
5. Whitefield’s Letters, 33.
6. E. A. Johnston, George Whitefield: A Definitive Biography, Vol. 1 (Stoke-on-Trent, England: Tentmaker, 2008), 498.
7. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 118–119.
8. Whitefield’s Journals, 48.
9. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, Vol. 1, 22.
10. Whitefield’s Journals, 60.
11. Ibid., 48.
12. Ibid.
13. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, Vol. 1, 22.
14. Whitefield’s Journals, 60.
15. Whitefield, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. V (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772), 27.
16. Haykin, The Revived Puritan, 105.
17. Whitefield, Letter 381, in Works, Vol. I, 28.
18. Philip, The Life and Times, 565.
19. Whitefield’s Journals, 83–84.
20. Ibid., 61.
21. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, Vol. 1, 80. Law’s rules are a set of guidelines for holy living formulated by the English minister and teacher William Law and published in 1729.
22. Whitefield, Sermon 2, in Works, Vol. V, 28.
23. Whitefield’s Journals, 91.
24. Ibid.
25. Whitefield, Letter 35, in Works, Vol. I, 38.
26. Whitefield, Sermon 2, in Works, Vol. V, 28.
27. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 127.
28. Whitefield, Sermon 31, in Works, Vol. V, 457.
29. Stephen Mansfield, Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2001), 214, 216.
30. Sermons of George Whitefield (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2009), 199–200.
31. Ibid., 199–200.
32. Whitefield’s Journals, 347–348.
33. Whitefield, Letter 262, in Works, Vol. I, 245.
34. Whitefield, Letter 120, in Works, Vol. I, 115.
35. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 106.
36. Ryle, Select Sermons, 5–6.
37. Whitefield, Letter 267, in Works, Vol. I, 250.
38. Whitefield, Letter 271, in Works, Vol. I, 255.
39. Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 216–219.
40. Whitefield, Letter 991, in Works, Vol. III, 29.
41. Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival, Vol. 2 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1995), 258.
42. Ryle, Select Sermons, 39.
43. Whitefield, Letter 1102, in Works, Vol. III, 144.
44. Haykin, The Revived Puritan, 103.
45. Whitefield, Letter 298, in Works, Vol. I, 275.
46. Whitefield’s Journals, 462.
47. Whitefield, Letter 640, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. II (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771), 144.
48. Whitefield, Letter 68, in Works, Vol. I, 66.
49. Whitefield, Letter 52, in Works, Vol. I, 55.
50. Whitefield, Letter 66, in Works, Vol. I, 64.
51. Whitefield’s Journals, 17.
52. Lee Gatiss, introduction to The Sermons of George Whitefield, Part 1, edited and with an introduction by Lee Gatiss (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2012), 29.
53. Whitefield, Letter 29, in Works, Vol. I, 33.
54. Ryle, Select Sermons, 5.
55. Whitefield, Letter 1017, in Works, Vol. III, 56.
56. Whitefield, Sermon 32, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. VI (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771), 6–7.
57. Ibid., 7.
58. Whitefield’s Journals, 61.
59. Ibid.
Chapter Three: A Theology of Sovereign Grace
1. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, Vol. 1, 409.
2. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word: The Reformational Revivalism of George Whitefield,” 173.
3. Gatiss, introduction to Sermons of George Whitefield, Part 1, 32.
4. Mark A. Noll, Biographical Entries from Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Vol. 1
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1997, 1984), 1273.
5. Whitefield, Letter 458, in Works, Vol. I, 442.
6. Ibid., 205.
7. Johnston, George Whitefield: A Definitive Biography, Vol. I, 498.
8. Ibid.
9. Whitefield, Letter 92, in Works, Vol. I, 88.
10. Whitefield in Gillies, Memoirs of Rev George Whitefield (Middletown, Conn.: Hunt and Noyes, 1839), 95.
11. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word,” 180.
12. The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. IV (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772), 247.
13. R. Elliot, “A Summary of Gospel Doctrine Taught by Mr. Whitefield,” in Select Sermons of George Whitefield (1958, repr.; Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1997), 52–53.
14. Whitefield in Gillies, Memoirs (Hunt and Noyes), 247.
15. Sermons of George Whitefield, 235.
16. Ibid., 234.
17. Johnston, George Whitefield: A Definitive Biography, Vol. I, 503.
18. Sermons of George Whitefield, 235.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., 72.
22. Ibid., 235.
23. Ibid., 72–73.
24. Haykin, The Revived Puritan, 45. [Tyerman, Life, II, 242.]
25. Sermons of George Whitefield, 234.
26. Elliot, Select Sermons, 57.
27. Whitefield in Gillies, Memoirs (Hunt and Noyes), 366.
28. Whitefield, Sermon 44: “Christ the Believer’s Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption,” in Works, Vol. VI, 188–189.
29. Whitefield in Gillies, Memoirs (Hunt and Noyes), 599.
30. Ibid., 366.
31. Whitefield, Sermon 44: “Christ the Believer’s Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption,” in Works, Vol. VI, 188–189.
32. Elliot, Select Sermons, 69.
33. Whitefield in Gillies, Memoirs (Hunt and Noyes), 629–630.
34. Gatiss, introduction to The Sermons of George Whitefield, Part 1, 33.
35. Whitefield in Gillies, Memoirs (Hunt and Noyes), 641.
36. Whitefield, Sermon 38, in Works, Vol. VI, 92.
37. Whitefield, “The Farewell Sermon,” in Select Sermons of George Whitefield (1958, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1997), 190.
38. Select Sermons of George Whitefield, 62.
39. Gatiss, introduction to The Sermons of George Whitefield, Part 1, 33.
40. Whitefield, Sermon 61: “The Good Shepherd,” in The Sermons of George Whitefield, Part 2, edited and with an introduction by Lee Gatiss (Stoke-on-Trent, England: Tentmaker, 2010), 455.
41. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in Works, Vol. VI , 62.
42. Whitefield, “On Regeneration,” in Sermons of George Whitefield, Part 2, 276.
43. Elliot, Select Sermons, 54.
44. Ibid.
45. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in Works, Vol. V, 61.
46. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in Works, Vol. VI , 61.
47. Whitefield, Sermon 39, in Works, Vol. VI, 123–124.
48. Elliot, Select Sermons, 56.
49. Sermons of George Whitefield, 333.
50. Ibid., 334.
51. Whitefield’s Journals, 581.
52. Sermons of George Whitefield, 334.
53. Ibid.
54. Whitefield, as quoted in Haykin, The Revived Puritan, 107.
55. Whitefield’s Journals, 578.
56. Stephen Mansfield, Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield (Nashville: Highland, 2001), 156.
57. Ibid., 261.
58. Ibid.
59. George Whitefield, as quoted by Dallimore, George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant, 69–70.
Chapter Four: A Gospel without Compromise
1. John Newton, as quoted by J. R. Andrews, George Whitefield: A Light Rising in Obscurity. (London: Morgan & Chase, 1864), 389.
2. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 120.
3. Sermons of George Whitefield (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2009), 284.
4. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. VI (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772), 60–61.
5. Sermons of George Whitefield, 222.
6. Whitefield, Sermon 44, in Works, Vol. VI, 200.
7. Sermons on Important Subjects by the Rev George Whitefield (London: B. Fisher, 1841), 57.
8. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in Works, Vol. VI, 62.
9. Sermons of George Whitefield, 110.
10. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in Works, Vol. VI, 60.
11. George Whitefield’s Journals (1738–1741, repr.; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1998), 495.
12. Joseph Belcher, George Whitefield: A Biography with Special Reference to His Labors in America (New York: American Tract Society, 1857), 514.
13. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 120.
14. As quoted in Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel Centered Life (Orlando, Fla.: Reformation Trust, 2007), 127.
15. Arnold A. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival, Vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1970), 127–128.
16. Dallimore, Whitefield: Life and Times, Vol. 1, 345. Dallimore also notes that through his interaction with Archbishop Tillotson (see below), Whitefield “focused the attention of thousands on the great central truth of the revival: the necessity of the new birth” (p. 483).
17. Dallimore, Whitefield: Life and Times, Vol. 1, 124.
18. Ibid., 345.
19. George Whitefield, Samuel Drew and Joseph Smith, “Sermons on Important Subjects,” in Commendations by Notable Preachers, the Works of George Whitefield (Weston Rhyn, England: Quinta [First published 1825] 2000), 31.
20. Harry S. Stout, “Whitefield in Three Countries,” in Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, The British Isles, and Beyond, 1700–1900, ed. Mark A. Noll, David Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 58–59. “His product—the New Birth—he would market…in the public square…”
21. Whitefield, Sermon 49, in Works, Vol. VI, 257.
22. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, 136.
23. Whitefield, Sermon 49, in Works, Vol. VI, 259.
24. Whitefield, Sermon 41, in Works, Vol. VI, 149.
25. Ibid.
26. George Whitefield, as quoted by Sir Marcus Loane, Oxford and the Evangelical Succession (London: Butterworth, 1950), 41.
27. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 125.
28. Ibid., 126.
29. Lee Gatiss, introduction to The Sermons of George Whitefield, Vol. 1, edited and with an introduction by Lee Gatiss (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2012), 22.
30. Whitefield, Sermon 32, in Works, Vol. VI, 18. Emphasis added.
31. Whitefield, Sermon 51, in Works, Vol. VI, 298. Emphasis added.
32. Sermons of George Whitefield, 159. Emphasis added.
33. Whitefield, Sermon 36, in Works, Vol. VI, 78.
34. Whitefield, Sermon 22, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, Vol. V (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772), 325–326.
35. Whitefield, Sermon 35, in Works, Vol. VI, 60. Emphasis added.
36. Whitefield, Sermon 36, in Works, Vol. VI, 77–78.
37. J. I. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word: The Reformational Revivalism of George Whitefield,” in The Bible, the Reformation and the Church, ed. W. P. Stephens (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic, 1995), 186.
38. Sermons of George Whitefield, 228.
39. Whitefield, Sermon 29, in Works, Vol. V, 428.
40. Whitefield, Sermon 28, in Works, Vol. V, 426.
41. Sermons of George Whitefield, 154.
42. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, 149.
43. Ibid., 149.
44. Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival, Vol. 2 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1995), 122.
45. Arnold Dallimore, “George Whitefield,” in New Dictionary of Theology, eds. Sinclair Ferguson and David Wright (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1988), 721.
Chapter Five: A Passion That Consumed
1. Ryle, “George Whitefield and His Ministry,” in Select Sermons, 21.
2. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, 541.
3. Nathan Cole, as quoted by Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1987), 214.
4. Ibid.
5. Nathan Cole, Spiritual Travels, as quoted in Whitefield’s Journals, 562.
6. Ryle, “George Whitefield and His Ministry,” in Select Sermons, 36.
7. Whitefield, “Neglect of Christ,” in Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 590.
8. Edward S. Ninde, George Whitefield: Prophet-Preacher (New York: Abingdon, 1924), 176–177.
9. R. Kent Hughes, Romans: Righteousness from Heaven (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1991), xii.
10. Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 273–274.
11. Ryle, “George Whitefield and His Ministry,” in Select Sermons, 36.
12. Paisley, “George Whitefield,” 10–11.
13. Whitefield, Letter 733, in Works, Vol. II, 230.
14. Whitefield, Letter 412, in Works, Vol. I, 387.
15. Paisley, “George Whitefield,” 11.
16. Ibid.
17. Whitefield, Letter 916, in Works, Vol. II, 432.
18. Whitefield, Letter 597, in Works, Vol. II, 105.
19. John Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2002), 43–44.
20. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word,” 180.
21. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, iii.
22. Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 24.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 262.
25. John Wesley, quoted by Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 244.
26. Ibid., 247.
27. Ibid.
28. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 117.
29. Philip, The Life and Times, 557.
30. Whitefield, quoted by Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 274.
31. Ibid., 235–236.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., 243.
34. Mansfield, Forgotten Founding Father, 124–125.
35. Belcher, George Whitefield, 514.
36. Ibid., 351.
37. Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 24.
38. Loane, Oxford and the Evangelical Succession (Christian Focus), 61.
39. Whitefield, Sermon 38, in Works, Vol. VI, 101.
40. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield (Philadelphia: Union, 1904), 91.
41. Whitefield, Sermon 22, in Works, Vol. V, 325–326.
42. Ibid.
43. Whitefield, Sermon 14, in Works, Vol. V, 230.
44. Ryle, Christian Leaders, 37.
45. Whitefield, Letter 110, in Works, Vol. I, 105.
46. Gillies, Memoirs (Whitmore), 243.
47. Thomas S. Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale, 2007), 61.
48. Ibid.
49. Erskine Clarke, Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690–1990 (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1996), 77.
50. Ibid.
51. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), 134.
52. Harry S. Stout, The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1991), 239–240.
53. Ibid.
54. Whitefield, Sermon 27, in Works, Vol. V, 416.
Chapter Six: A Mandate from the Lord
1. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 126–127.
2. Samuel Davies, as quoted by Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 123–124.
3. Paisley, “George Whitefield,” 9.
4. Ibid.
5. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 119.
6. Sermons of George Whitefield, 335.
7. Packer, “The Spirit with the Word,” 170.
8. Ibid.
9. Whitefield, Letter 588, in Works, Vol. II, 96.
10. J. I. Packer, foreword to George Whitefield: A Definitive Biography, Vol. 1, by E. A. Johnston, xvii.
11. Wakeley, Anecdotes, 28.
12. Ibid., 29.
13. Whitefield’s Journals, 200–201.
14. Whitefield’s Journals, 203.
15. Ibid., 203.
16. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, 117.
17. Whitefield’s Journals, 429.
18. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 126.
19. Ibid., 126–127.
20. Whitefield, Letter 250, in Works, Vol. I, 237.
21. Whitefield, Letter 272, in Works, Vol. I, 257.
22. Whitefield, Letter 300, in Works, Vol. I, 276.
23. Whitefield, Letter 396, in Works, Vol. I, 368.
24. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, 185.
25. Whitefield, Letter 312, in Works, Vol. I, 388.
26. Whitefield, Letter 544, in Works, Vol. II, 47.
27. Whitefield’s Journals, 206.
28. Ibid., 211.
29. Ibid., 195.
30. Ibid., 462.
31. Philip, The Life and Times, 248.
32. Whitefield’s Journals, 210.
33. Ibid., 167–180.
34. Ibid., 166.
35. Ibid., 251.
36. Ibid., 256.
37. Ibid., 195.
38. Ibid., 201.
39. Murray, Heroes, 52.
40. J. C. Ryle, A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1854), 4.
41. Whitefield, Letter 16, in Works, Vol. I, 19.
42. Whitefield, Letter 369, in Works, Vol. I, 337.
43. Whitefield’s Journals, 444.
44. Amos Stevens Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher Reverend George Whitefield (Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1878), 183.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid., 184.
47. Lloyd-Jones, Puritans, 122.
48. Whitefield’s Journals, 197.
49. Philip, The Life and Times, 212.
Conclusion: We Want Again Whitefields!
1. The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. Vol. 1. (New York: Emory and Waugh, 1831), 477.
2. C. H. Spurgeon Autobiography, Vol. 1: The Early Years, 1834–1859, compiled by
Susannah Spurgeon and Joseph Harrald (Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1897–1900, 1962), v.
3. Ibid.
4. Dallimore, George Whitefield: The Life and Times, Vol. 1, 16.