PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 1 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 · 179,792 words · 543 reading sections
LETTER CLX.
_To Mrs. Elizabeth D――――._ _Savannah, Feb. 1, 1740._ _My dear Sister in CHRIST_, I Generally observe that whom the LORD loves, for the most part he keeps from preferment.――Your grandmother cannot do any more than she is permitted. It is GOD’s free grace alone, that has made the difference between us and others. Oh th…
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_To the Rev. Mr. D. R._ _Savannah, Feb. 4, 1740._ _My reverend and dear Brother_, I Received your kind letter just on my arrival at this place.――My journal, which I suppose you will have read ere this reaches _Wales_, can best inform you what GOD hath done for my own and other people’s souls.――Even here, he is please…
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_To Mr. H. H._ _Savannah, Feb. 4, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, WILL this find you in prison or not? Your last letter (which I received upon my arrival here) gave me some expectations that ere long you would be both in prison and bonds. By and by, I shall follow perhaps.――The LORD sanctify all his dispensations to us, an…
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_To Mr. H――――._ _Savannah, Feb. 4, 1740._ HOW is it with your heart? I hope the LORD JESUS leads you on from conquering to conquer, and gets himself the victory every day. I cannot but think that hereafter great things will be done in _America_. GOD seems to have given some earnests of it already. My next journal wil…
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_To Mr. H. G._ _Savannah, Feb. 4, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, WHAT shall I say to your kind letter? I bless the LORD for awakening you to see the necessity of trusting in a better righteousness than your own, and I adore him for making use of so mean an instrument as I am. It is a plain proof that the power is not of m…
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_To the Rev. Mr. J――――._ _Savannah, Feb. 29, 1740._ _Reverend and dear Sir_, WITH great pleasure I answer your kind letter, and earnestly pray that GOD would be pleased to sanctify our correspondence. It rejoices my soul, when I find a clergyman that loves our LORD JESUS in sincerity. It is with regret that I speak a…
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_To Captain H. M._ _Savannah, March 2, 1740._ _Dear Sir_, WITH pleasure I received your kind letter last night, and immediately prayed, that GOD would never leave you before he had finished the good work begun in your heart. He has given you a rational, I hope ere long, he will give you a _spiritual conviction_ of si…
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_To Mr. James S――――._ _March 2, 1740._ _Dear Mr. S._, BLESSED be GOD, that you are yet alive as to your body; blessed be GOD, that some sparks of divine light are yet discernible in your soul. Indeed, I have been frequently distressed for you and your companions, lest satan, through the corruption of your hearts, and…
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_To the Hon. J. W._ _Savannah, March 10, 1740._ _Honoured Sir_, YESTERDAY, after public worship, I received with pleasure your kind letter, and was immediately ready to cry out, Why do so many of my LORD’s servants take notice of such a dead dog as I am. Surely sovereign, rich, and free grace was never exalted more t…
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_To the Rev. Mr. J. W._ _Savannah, March 26, 1740._ _Honoured Sir_, SINCE I returned here, I received your letter and journal.――I thank you for both, and shall wait almost with impatience to see a continuance of your account of what GOD is doing or has done amongst you――He knows my heart, I rejoice in whatever GOD ha…
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_To Mr. W._ _Savannah, March 26, 1740._ AND how does dear Mr. _Wal――_? His letter lies by me, and I now am inclined to answer it. My dear brother, how do you feel your heart? Is it grown sick of original and actual sin? Is it grown sick of unbelief and self-righteousness? Is it closely united to the holy JESUS? Do yo…
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_To the Rev. Mr. B. I._ _Savannah, March, 28, 1740._ HOW glad should I be of a letter from dear brother _I――――_? When shall my soul be refreshed, with hearing that the work of the LORD prospers in his hand? I suppose before now you have received my letters, and seen my journal, and I believe GOD is yet preparing grea…
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_To Mr. and Mrs. D._ _On board the Savannah, bound to Philadelphia from Georgia, April 4, 1740._ _My dear friends_, SINCE I wrote last, we have buried our Sister _L――――_. _Rachel_ I left at _Philadelphia_, and sister _T――――_ seems to be in a declining state; so that sister _A――――_ alone is like to be left of all the …
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_To Miss E――――._ _On board the Savannah, April 4th, 1740._ BE not surprised at the contents of this:――The letter sent to your honoured father and mother will acquaint you with the reasons. Do you think, you could undergo the fatigues, that must necessarily attend being joined to one, who is every day liable to be cal…
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_To Mr. H――――._ _On board the Savannah, April 10, 1740._ IT is now full time to answer your letter. You acknowledge me the first instrument, under GOD (for ever adored be the riches of his free grace) of awakening you to the divine life: and shall not I endeavour to quicken and inflame the heavenly spark infused into…
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_To Mr. C――――._ _On board the Savannah, April 10, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, YOU, as well as your dear associates, are much upon my heart. I long to hear that you are advanced in grace, and grown in the knowledge of CHRIST JESUS your LORD. I say _your Lord_; for I hope, ere now, you can appropriate CHRIST to yourself,…
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_To Mr. I―――― B――――._ _On board the Savannah, April 10, 1740._ _My dear, dear Friend_, I Remember your words that day I took my leave of you, with Dr. _John S――――_, at _London_. I have not forgotten you, therefore do I now write a line to my dear Mr. _B――――_. May the Holy Ghost come upon him, and the power of the Hig…
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_To Mr. N――――._ _On board the Savannah, April 10, 1740._ _My Dear Brother_, I Have been a few days returned from _Charles-Town_, where our dear LORD JESUS, I trust, has begun a glorious work. Many came to me under convictions, and were made to cry out, “What shall we do to be saved?” The people were exceeding desirou…
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_To Mr. S――――._ _Willingtown, (Pensylvania) April 14, 1740._ READ where I am, and judge whether or not I am a stranger and pilgrim upon earth. Yesterday, after a short passage of ten days, did GOD bring us from _Georgia_ to _New-Castle_: there I preached twice. To-day I shall preach here, and in the evening hope to r…
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_To Madam C――――._ _New Brunswick, April 27, 1740._ _Madam_, ALL things go on well in _America_――nay, better than I dare ask, or could think. Our LORD’s kingdom comes with power. It is amazing to see how GOD is present in our assemblies: I refer you to dear brother _S――――_ for particulars. My animal spirits are exhaus…
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_To Mr. M――――._ _New Brunswick, April 28, 1740._ BLESSED be GOD, I can send you glad tidings of great joy. Our LORD JESUS is getting himself the victory in these parts. The Orphan-house affairs go forward beyond expectation. I have upwards of _forty children_ in my house at _Savannah_, near _seventy persons_ in famil…
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_To W. S. Esq._ _Reedy Island, May 19, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, I Know very well what it is to part from a friend which is as one’s own soul; and therefore could in some measure sympathize with you in what you felt when parting from me. The good LORD sanctify my friendship to you, and grant we may go hand in hand to…
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_To Mr. M――――, an Indian Trader._ _Reedy Island, May 19, 1740._ _Dear Mr. M――――_, I Received your letter, and have been reading part of your journal. I think it your bounden duty to go amongst the _Indians_ again, not as a _minister_, but as a private christian, whose duty it is, when converted himself, to strengthen…
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_To the Allegany Indians._ _Reedy Island, May 21, 1740._ _My Dear Brethren_,…
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FOR so I call you, because you, and I, and all, have one common father, ONE GOD, in whom we live, move and have our beings. We all came at first out of the dust of the earth. For after GOD made the sun, moon, stars, and every thing you see, he also made a creature called _man_, and breathed into him the breath of life;…
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Your soul’s well-wisher and servant in CHRIST,…
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_To the Rev. Mr. I――――, at Philadelphia._ _Reedy Island, May 21, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, STILL our LORD is with me both in the ship and on the shore. Adore him for his free grace. Sailors, I believe, are coming to JESUS. One or two of our crew are under convictions. The LORD does not keep me here for nothing. I des…
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_To Mr. M――――, at Philadelphia._ _Reedy Island, May 21, 1740._ _Dear Mr. M._, AS the LORD is pleased to detain me here by contrary winds, why should I not send you a line? You have stood up for the truths of GOD, and, I trust, will not be ashamed of our LORD and his gospel. I expect a great falling away amongst those…
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_To Mr. R――――, at Philadelphia._ _Reedy Island, May 22, 1740._ _Dear R._, LET nothing said to you in my absence affect you. GOD has lately delivered you out of one snare; take heed how you fall into another. If you watch unto prayer, who knows but GOD may bless your endeavours amongst the poor negro women and childre…
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_To Mr. E――――._ _Reedy Island, May 22, 1740._ GOD only knows when the wind will favour our removal hence; I desire patiently to tarry the LORD’s leisure, and to wait the moving of the cloud of his providence. However, in the mean while I send you a line amongst my other friends. GOD, I believe, hath struck you to the…
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_To the Members of a Society at Philadelphia._ _Reedy Island, May 22, 1740._ _My dear Friends_, AS the LORD, for wise reasons, detains me here, I cannot but send you a line as a token of my unfeigned concern for the welfare of your better part. I must confess, that the account many of you gave of your experiences, wa…
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_To Mr. A―――― S――――, at Philadelphia._ _Reedy Island, May 22, 1740._ _Dear Mr. S._, I Desire that you and your wife would accept of these few farewel lines as a token of my love. My heart’s desire and prayer to GOD is, that you both may be saved.――Your wife was mourning when I saw her last. The LORD JESUS prepare her…
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_To Mr. G―――― L――――, in London._ _Reedy Island, May 22, 1740._ “ON _Thursday_ last, in the evening, the Rev. Mr. _Whitefield_ went on board at _New-Castle_, in order to sail to _Georgia_, after having been on shore thirty-three days, and travelled some hundreds of miles, and preached fifty-eight times in the province…
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_To W―――― S――――, Esq., in London._ _Lewis-Town, (Pensylvania) May 24, 1740._ _My dear Friend and Brother_, MY will is much to go to _Georgia_, but my dear LORD JESUS is pleased to cross me. For ever blessed be his great and glorious name. Just now the LORD hath brought me hither. Your letter pleased me. I hope our LO…
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_To the Rev. Mr. J. W._ _Cape-Lopen, May 24, 1740._ _Honoured Sir_, I Cannot entertain prejudices against your conduct and principles any longer, without informing you. The more I examine the writings of the most experienced men, and the experiences of the most established christians, the more I differ from your noti…
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_To Mr. S――――, in Charles-Town._ _Savannah, June 7, 1740._ _Dear Sir_, BEFORE I knew you by name, my heart was uncommonly affected towards you. Whenever I saw you at church, I enquired concerning you, and to my great but pleasing surprize, when I came to your house, found you was the man I was enquiring after. Your l…
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_To Mr. J―――― H――――, in London._ _Savannah, June 7, 1740._ _My dear, dear Brother_, WITH great comfort I received your long wished-for letter. It warmed my heart, and knit my soul to you much more than ever. Whenever I see the child-like simplicity and love of JESUS, it quite melts me down. Let all former misundersta…
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_To T―――― T――――, Esq., in London._ _Savannah, June 7, 1740._ _My dear Friend and Brother_, I Wrote to you very lately; but your kind letter is now before me, and I cannot forbear answering it: Blessed be GOD, that you still look upon me as your friend. May the friend of all, unite us in the best bonds, and bring us t…
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_To Mr. M――――._ _Savannah, June 11, 1740._ _Dear Mr. M――――_, I Am not uneasy, but rather joyful, to find GOD lets you see more and more into the misery of your depraved nature. I pray GOD, these convictions may still increase, and that you may not fall short of a saving union with JESUS CHRIST. I am concerned to find…
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_To Mr. W―――― W――――, in London._ _Savannah, June 11, 1740._ _Dear W――――_, I Am sorry to hear, that you and your masters cannot agree; but this I know, supposing the case to be as you represent it, you must notwithstanding “be obedient, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.”――Rough usage will do yo…
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_To the Rev. Mr. J―――― B――――, at New-York._ _Savannah, June 13, 1740._ _Reverend and dear Brother_, I Have just been reading the three letters you sent some time ago to our dear brother _N――――_, and find my heart much inclined to write you a line. Whatever others may do, yet I am far from judging you on account of GO…
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_To the Rev. Mr. J. W._ _Savannah, June 25, 1740._ _My honoured Friend and Brother_, I Thank you for, and heartily say _amen_ to all the petitions you have put up in my behalf. I want to be as my Master would have me; I mean, meek and lowly in heart. Dear Sir, bear with me a little longer; pray for me with great earn…
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_To Mr. J―――― H――――._ _Savannah, June 25, 1740._ _Dearest J――――_, EVERY letter you write, knits my heart more and more to you in the bowels of JESUS CHRIST. Your last I received on _Saturday_. GOD had been preparing me for it, by a week’s intimation upon my heart, and by an inexpressible agony in my soul just before …
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_To Mrs. E―――― C――――._ _Savannah, June 25, 1740._ _My dear Sister_, YOUR letter afforded me much inward pleasure. Surely it bespeaks the writer not to be far from the kingdom of GOD. You was then waiting for our LORD’s salvation: ere now, I trust, CHRIST hath manifested his glory, filled you with his blessed spirit, …
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_To the Rev. Mr. S――――, in London._ _Savannah, June 26, 1740._ _Rev. and dear Sir_, AND is one of the priests also obedient to the word? Blessed be GOD, the Father of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, who hath translated you from darkness to light; from the power of Satan to the service of the ever-living GOD. Now know I, that …
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_To Wm. S――――, Esq., in London._ _Savannah, June 26, 1740._ _My dear Brother S――――_, I Sent you a packet of letters from _Charles-Town_, the middle of this month. Since that time, I have received many agreeable letters from _England_; but find from _Blendon letters_ that Miss _E―――― D――――_ is in a seeking state only.…
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_To Mr. W―――― D――――._ _Savannah, June 28, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, I Thank you for your kind letters and friendly cautions; and trust shall always reckon those my choicest friends, who, in simplicity and meekness, tell me the corruptions of my heart. It is that faithfulness which hath endeared _J―――― S――――_ to me. I…
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_To J―――― B――――._ _Good Hope, (South-Carolina) July 2, 1740._ _My dear Brother B――――_, IS it true, that one night whilst you was expounding, you told your hearers, from your own experience, that “they could not go on without throwing aside the means of grace?” or words to that purpose? If so, I pity you; for you are…
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_Charles-Town, July 11, 1740._ _Dear Mr. R――――_, YOUR letter much rejoiced me. O that you may still follow on, till you truly know the LORD! I shall be glad to have you for a scribe, if you are well instructed in the things which belong to the kingdom of heaven. Keep close, my dear friend, keep close to the dear Mr. _…
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_To Mr. J―――― R――――._ _Charles-Town, July 15, 1740._ _Dear J――――_, MAY you answer your name, be freely gracious, and filled with as much love as he was, who leaned on the sacred bosom of our dear Redeemer. I believe GOD has begun; if so, GOD will carry on the good work in your heart. It is the LORD’s doing. Not unto …
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_To Mr. B――――, in Pensylvania._ _Charles-Town, July 18, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, PRAISE the LORD, O my soul! Our glorious _Emmanuel_ seems to have girt his sword upon his thigh, and to be riding on from conquering to conquer. He gets himself the victory in _Philadelphia_. He is getting himself the victory in _Charle…
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_To Mr. I. R――――._ _Charles-Town, July 18, 1740._ _My Dear Friend_, I Thank you for going with friend _E――――_ and _B――――_ to _Nazareth_. May GOD bless you, and cause great good to come to that place! GOD seems to be carrying on as great a work in _Charles-Town_, comparatively speaking, as in _Philadelphia_. Surely ou…
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_To Mr. G―――― L――――._ _Charles-Town, July 18, 1740._ _Dear Brother L――――_, GOD will work, and who shall hinder? The sacrament hath been refused to me, and I have appeared thrice in open court, before the commissary and some of his clergy; but our LORD rides on, from conquering to conquer. Many, I believe, are really …
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_To the Reverend Mr. D――――._ _Savannah, August 15, 1740._ _My dear Brother D――――_, OUR dear LORD (after being pleased to bring me low by bodily sickness) now gives me liberty to write to you. Whilst I am writing, I find my heart united with yours. I hope we have both drank into the same spirit, and are both instances…
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_To Mr. N――――, in New York._ _Savannah, Aug. 15, 1740._ _My dear Brother_, YOUR letter rejoiced my heart. May our dear lord’s kingdom be advanced more and more every day! O that I may meet you at _New-England_! Blessed be GOD that Mr. _M――――_ is yet alive. Salute him from me; I hope to see him before I die, and so be…
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_To Mrs. L――――._ _Charles-Town, Aug. 22, 1740._ _Honoured Mother_, ALTHOUGH I had not the pleasure of receiving one line, either from your dear self, or from any other of my beloved friends; yet my heart was rejoiced just now by a sailor, who told me, that he saw and conversed with you the twenty-ninth of _May_ last.…
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_To the Reverend Mr. J―――― W――――._ _Charles-Town, Aug. 25, 1740._ _Dear and Honoured Sir_, LAST night I had the pleasure of receiving an extract of your journal.――This morning I took a walk and read it. I pray GOD to give it his blessing. Many things I trust will prove beneficial, especially the account of yourself. …
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_To Mrs. J―――― L――――, in Bristol._ _Charles-Town, Aug. 26, 1740._ _Dear J――――_, I Hope you and your little society go on and prosper. I hear there are divisions among you. Avoid them if possible. The doctrines of election, and of final perseverance, I hold as well as you.――But then, they are not to be contended for w…
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_To the Right Reverend Father in GOD, Edmund Lord Bishop of London_. _On board the Savannah, bound from Charles-Town to Boston, September ――, 1740._ _My Lord_, ALTHOUGH your Lordship has been pleased to caution the people against running into those extremes, to which your Lordship apprehended my doctrine would lead m…
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