PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 2 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 · 175,502 words · 500 reading sections
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_Be thou made holy from the womb,_ _By him who sav’d thee from the ¹tomb:_ _In JESU’s arms still may’st thou rest,_ _While sucking at thy mother’s breast._…
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_Blest be the parents with the son!_ _Blest be the GOD that gave you one!_ _We’ll magnify the LORD with you!_ _Share in your joy, we’re sure we do._…
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_O may you both be taught of GOD,_ _To teach this Child his SAVIOUR’s blood:_ _That thousands in your bliss may share,_ _In answer to united pray’r._…
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_And may the |Lamb|, your |Master|, grant_ _This grace, that you may never want_ _A child to stand before his face,_ _To preach his Love, his Sov’reign Grace!_ ¹ Alluding to the remarkable deliverance that his father and mother had some few weeks before his mother was delivered, when she and her husband being riding i…
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_To Mr. G. H――――._ _London, Feb. 24, 1744._ _My dear dear Mr. H――――_, MULTIPLICITY of urgent affairs has kept me from answering your kind letter sooner. Blessed be GOD for giving you such a prosperous journey. I am not sorry that some, after their much joy, have been brought down and plunged into much misery. It is …
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_London, March 12, 1744._ _My dear Friend_,…
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THIS leaves me just returned from _Gloucester_ assizes, where it has pleased the great Judge of quick and dead to give us the victory over the _Hampton_ rioters. You remember I informed you, that I thought we should be obliged to appeal unto _Cæsar_. A solemn day of fasting and humiliation was kept on that account; and…
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I remain, Sir, your very affectionate friend, _G. W._ ♦ “an” replaced with “on”…
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_To Mrs. D――――._ _London, March 15, 1744._ _Dear Madam_, SHALL I promise and not perform? GOD forbid! This comes in answer to your commands, and to inform you, that through him who has the hearts of all men in his hands, we came off more than conquerors, respecting our _Gloucester_ trial. The rioters were brought in…
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_To the Same._ _Plymouth, June 26, 1744._ _My dear Friend_, YOU see by this where I am. Doubtless you’ll wonder at the quick transition from _Portsmouth_ to _Plymouth_. To the former I intended going when I wrote last; but just before I took leave of the dear tabernacle people, a message was sent to me, that the cap…
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_To the Same._ _Plymouth, July 4, 1744._ SINCE my last, I have had some particular informations about the late odd adventure. It seems, that four gentlemen came to the house of one of my particular friends, kindly enquiring after me, and desired to know where I lodged, that they might come and pay their respects. He …
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_To Mr. S――――._ _Plymouth, July 21, 1744._ I Expected a line from you this morning; but I suppose you think we are gone. This day came in a privateer, which saw the _Brest_ Squadron that has pursued two of our men of war, the _Dreadnought_ and _Frederick_; so that had we sailed, we should in all probability have been…
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_To Mr. T――――._ _Plymouth, July 26, 1744._ _My dear Friend_, ACCEPT some few hasty lines from one, who, properly speaking, may at present be stiled a prisoner at large. I am still here waiting for the promised convoy, and as I humbly hope, really waiting for the convoy of death to carry me to _Abraham_’s bosom. Coul…
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_To Mr. J―――― S――――_. _Plymouth, July 27, 1744._ MATTERS go on better and better here. I begin to think myself in _London_. We have our regular morning meetings; and our LORD is pleased to grace them with his presence. We are looking out for a place proper for a society, and to expound in. People come daily to me, es…
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_To the Same._ _Plymouth, July 29, 1744._ OUR LORD has been giving us blessings in drops, but now he is sending them in showers. This morning we have had a most precious meeting. Perhaps more good hath been done by that one sermon, than by all I have preached before. When GOD will work, who shall hinder? The wind is …
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_To the Same._ _Plymouth, August 3, 1744._ _My dear, dear Friend_, IT is past ten, or I would write you a long letter. Our convoy is come, and perhaps we may sail to-morrow. It is delightful to be here. We come from _Dock_ in the evenings, in great companies, singing and praising GOD. Our parting there has been more…
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_Eternal JESUS, bless thy word,_ _Be mindful of thy child;_ _Behold thy servant; be thou, LORD,_ _His helmet, sword, and shield._…
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_Close by thy side him ever keep;_ _Still hold him in thy hand,_ _Till he and all thy ransom’d sheep,_ _Shall rest in their own land._…
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_The preachers and the people there,_ _Shall thee in fulness see;_ _Shall keep the long sabbatic year,_ _The feast of jubilee._ If we never meet again in this suffering world, GOD grant that we may ere long see each other in the heavenly paradise, where all tears shall be wiped from our eyes, and death, sin, and sorro…
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_To Mr. E――――._ _Plymouth, August 4, 1744._ _My very dear Brother E――――_, I Thank you for your last kind and loving letter, and as a token of my unfeigned love to you, I send you these few lines by way of answer, before I embark. Our convoy is now come, and in all probability we shall sail this day or tomorrow. I ne…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _On board the Wilmington, Oct. 20, 1744._ _My dear Friend_, YOU know in what a poor state of health I was, when I embarked. The length, and seeming tediousness of the voyage, hath occasioned no small addition to the violent pain in my side; however, blessed be GOD, in a week or two after we sailed, we…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _York (New-England,) Oct. 30, 1744._ _Dear Friend_, DON’T judge me for not writing more frequent. It was impracticable. I have been laid on a bed of sickness, and was, in the apprehension of myself and others, at the very mouth of the heavenly harbour; but as that more than once hath been the case, I …
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_To Mr. ――――._ _York, Nov. 6, 1744._ _Dear Sir_, HOW thankful ought I to be to him, whose mercy endureth for ever! GOD has commanded a physician (once a notorious deist, but through grace converted at my last visit in _New-England_) to receive me here. Worthy Colonel _P――――_, who lives at the very mouth of the harbo…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _Portsmouth, (New-England) Nov. 16, 1744._ _My dear Friend_, AS I promised, I must employ a little of my new-gained strength in writing to you. Soon after I began to recover, good old Mr. _M――――_ the minister of _York_, who feared the LORD greatly from his youth, came to and accosted me thus: “Sir, yo…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _Boston, Jan. 18, 1745._ _My dear Friend_, BY this time I suppose you have heard, by your brother’s letter, how good old Mr. _Moody_, in his honest way, said, I was welcome to all the faithful ministers in _New-England_. But the good old man judged too much by his own honest feelings. You see I am now…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _Boston, Feb. 6, 1745._ _My dear Friend_, I Remember you once told me, that you heard one of the good old _Puritans_, who went over to _New-England_, wrote back again, that he went from _Old-England_ to avoid the Lord Bishops, and came to _New-England_ to get under the Lord Brethren. Well is it at pre…
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_To Mr. A――――._ _Ipswich, Feb. 7, 1745._ AND how does my very dear brother _A――――_? I heard by some friend lately that he was well.――I hope this will find him yet better, and more and more happy in the ever-lovely, ever-loving JESUS.――I suppose you have heard of his great goodness to me and mine.――We have been carrie…
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_To Mrs. ――――._ _Boston, Feb. 17, 1745._ _Dear Madam_, THIS leaves me just retired from my spiritual levee. Our good friend Mr. _S――――_ tells me, while I am here he looks upon his house not as his own, but mine. His parlour is large, and I sit there to receive gospel visitants. Good Mr. _P――――_ told me some time ago…
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_To Mrs. ――――._ _Boston, Feb. 19, 1745._ _My dear Friend_, _TEMPORA mutantur_; a confederacy, a confederacy! The clergy, amongst whom are a few mistaken, misinformed good old men, are publishing halfpenny testimonials against me. Even the president, professors, and tutors of _Hertford_ college, where I was, as you k…
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_Piscataqua, March 6, 1745._ _My very dear, dear J._ THIS comes by Captain _Darling_. I hear from _Boston_, a bookseller has got the books you sent over. I have sent a letter to Doctor _C――――_, with my answer to _Harvard_ college, which I would have you print, with their testimony, (which is an original:) and my answ…
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_To Mr. C――――._ _Piscataqua, March 6, 1745._ _My very dear Brother C――――_, IT gives me some concern, that I cannot send thee a long letter, but at present I have so many things of importance before me, which must be immediately dispatched, that I desire others to excuse me too. I do not forget any of you as I know o…
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_To Mr. J. S. in London._ _Piscataqua, March 12, 1745._ I Wrote to you last week, and have sent you by Capt. _Darling_ two letters, and a box. This comes by a young gentleman that expects to return to _South-Carolina_ by _August_ next. By him I send you one of each sort of the pamphlets that I have published here. I …
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_On board Capt. Grant, bound from Charles-Town to Philadelphia, May 2, 1745._ _My very dear, dear Brother H――――_, HOW do you find your heart these trying, sifting, purging times? I hope you are enabled to joy in GOD, and are made more than conqueror through his love. It has given me some concern that I could not writ…
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_To Mrs. ――――._ _Boston, July 29, 1745._ _Dear Madam_, YOU will be surprized to hear that a messenger of the prince of peace, especially such a weak creature as I am, should beat up to arms. No doubt you have judged me, as well you may; but providence seemed to force me to it. You have now heard of the _Cape-Breton_…
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_To Mrs. L――――._ _Philadelphia, August 26, 1746._ _Honoured Mother_, WHETHER your affections are abated to me or not, (which one would imagine by your not writing in two years) yet duty, love, and gratitude oblige me to write to her, to whom, under GOD, I owe my being brought into the world. I am glad to find by a l…
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_To the Rev. Mr. Z――――._ _Bohemia, (Maryland) Oct. 8, 1746._ _Rev. and dear Sir_, I Took the freedom some months ago to send you a letter, wherein was inclosed a letter for Professor _Frank_, both which I hope came safe to hand, and were accepted in love. Since that, I have been travelling and ranging the woods, in …
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_To Mr. H―――― H――――._ _Anapolis, (Maryland,) Nov. 8, 1746._ _My very dear, dear Brother_, I Just now received a wished-for packet from _England_, in which are two or three letters from you. My dear fellow pilgrim will exceedingly rejoice at the receipt of them. She is gone forward with a _Boston_ young lady towards …
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_To a friend at the Tabernacle, London._ _Anapolis, November 8, 1746._ _My very dear Brother_, JUST now I have received your kind letter with some others, but have not time to read them all, being just setting out from this place. I shall consider of your _loud call_, and pray our LORD to direct me.――Poor _English_ …
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_To Mr. H―――― H――――._ _Hanover county, (Virginia) Nov. 16, 1746._ _My very dear Brother_, ABOUT a week ago I had the pleasure of receiving a long letter from you, which I immediately answered at _Anapolis_.――That you wrote to my dear wife is gone to her, and I suppose will rejoice her exceedingly. ――She is well, and…
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_To a friend in London._ _Bethesda, Dec. 24, 1746._ _My dear Brother_, I Thank you heartily for your very kind letter, which I now snatch a few moments to answer. The account you gave of things, made me mourn that they were in so bad a situation, and at the same time I could not help rejoicing they were no worse: Yo…
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_Bethesda, Dec. 24, 1746._ _My dear Brother_, I Must not let your kind letter which I received a few days ago lie long unanswered. And now what shall I say? why that I would have you comfort yourself with this promise, “That all things shall work (nay _do_ work) for good to those that love GOD.”――Blessed be GOD for t…
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_To Mr. A――――._ _Bethesda, Dec. 29, 1746._ _My very dear Brother A――――_, SINCE I wrote to you from _Maryland_, I have received two or three kind letters from you, in which I have had a particular account how affairs stand in _England_.――I bless GOD for the gracious assistance he has been pleased to afford you, and p…
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_To Mr. H―――― J――――._ _Charles-Town, Jan. 23, 1747._ _My very dear Brother_, I Owe you much love, and though I have written to you more than once, yet I look upon myself as indebted to you still.――I therefore now sit down to answer the kind letter which you sent my dear yokefellow.――She is now at _Georgia_, and havi…
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_To a generous Benefactor unknown._ _Charles-Town, March, 15, 1747._ WHOEVER you are that delight to imitate the divine beneficence in doing good to your fellow-creatures when they know not of it, I think it my duty, in behalf of the poor orphans committed to my care, to send you a letter of thanks for your kind, gen…
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_To Mrs. B._ _Bohemia, (Maryland) Sunday night, April 26, 1747._ _Very dear Mrs. B._ IF you will promise not to be sorry, that you set out so soon, I will inform you, that through the singular goodness of a loving Redeemer, we reached _Bohemia_ last night, after a pleasant journey of about five weeks from _Charles-T…
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_To the Rev. Mr. F――――._ _Bohemia, April 28, 1747._ _Rev. and very dear Brother_, WITH this, I send you a packet from your brother, whom I left well and happy at _Bethesda_ about six weeks ago. As I came along I saw Mr. _Davis_. He is licensed, as are the four houses in _Virginia_; but there is a proclamation issued…
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_To the Honourable F. W――――, Esq._ _New-Town, (Maryland) May 6, 1747._ _Honoured Sir_, A Few days past I had the pleasure of yours, dated _November_ 28th. I embrace this first opportunity of returning you my hearty thanks for the unmerited kindness and affection expressed therein. May the Redeemer give me an humble …
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_To Mrs. P――――._ _New-Town, (Maryland) May 6, 1747._ _Dear Mrs. P――――_, I Must refrain no longer from returning you thanks for two or three kind letters with which you have favoured me. They seemed to speak the language of a heart concerned for _Zion_’s glory. Well! Blessed are they that mourn for those who will not…
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_To Madam P――――._ _Dover, (Pensylvania) May 8, 1747._ _Honoured Madam_, THE great though unmerited regard you have always been pleased to express for me, emboldens me now and then to drop you a line to inform you, that you are not forgotten by me before that GOD whose mercy endureth for ever. I trust, your latter en…
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_To Mr. B――――, Senior._ _Dover, May 8, 1747._ _Very dear Mr. B――――_, I Think it is high time for me to send you a line of thanks, for the favours you have been pleased to shew me, while others were loading me with scorn and contempt. A weak body and continued employ in the service of the best of Masters, occasion my…
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_To Mr. H―――― S――――._ _Dover, May 9, 1747._ AS you were my kind host and peculiar friend, I take the liberty of writing to you more frequently than to others. I hope you will accept of this as a token of my unfeigned gratitude and love. It brings you the news of my being advanced thus far, of my being in health, and …
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_To the Reverend Mr. M――――, junior._ _Dover in Pensylvania, May 9, 1747._ _Reverend and very dear Sir_, EVER since I have known and heard of you, the LORD JESUS CHRIST hath made you peculiarly dear to my soul. Your troubles and soul distresses have in some measure been my own. I have looked and learned from your cas…
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_To Mrs. B――――._ _Wicoacommoco, (Maryland) May 16, 1747._ _Dear Mrs. B――――_, HEARING by Captain _Adams_ that the glorious _Emmanuel_ holds your soul in life, I cannot help letting you know, past kindnesses are not yet forgotten, and that I wish you much spiritual and temporal prosperity. How does your soul prosper i…
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_To the Reverend Mr. J―――― R――――._ _Wicoacommoca, May 16, 1747._ CAN souls united in JESUS’s love ever forget one another? It is difficult, though I believe possible, and in dull seasons I fear too common. However, blessed be the Redeemer, I have not yet forgotten my dear Mr. _R――――_. As a proof it, I send you these …
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_To the Reverend Mr. B――――._ _Near New-Town, (Maryland) May 21, 1747._ AND how does my dear friend and brother Mr. _B――――_ after so long a silence? What a pity is it, that the Redeemer’s children cannot more frequently correspond with each other? Blessed be GOD, there is a time coming, when our fellowship with JESUS …
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_To the Reverend Mr. P――――._ _New-Town, May 21, 1747._ _Reverend and very dear Sir_, IT sometimes gives me concern that I cannot hear oftener from you, and your dear son, whom I love so tenderly. But I suppose your hands are full of work for the best of masters. I pray him daily, that you may be crowned with much su…
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_To Mr. H―――― H――――._ _Philadelphia, May 30, 1747._ _My dearest Brother_, HAD I strength equal to my will, you should now receive from me a very long letter; but at present I have such a fever upon me, that I can scarce send you a few lines. However I will try. Your dear letters in _August_ last came to my hands las…
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_Philadelphia, June 1, 1747._ _My dear Mr. H――――_, I Make no apology for troubling you with the inclosed. I hear you have taken the Tabernacle outward affairs into your hands. I am glad of it, and pray the LORD of all Lords to make you a faithful steward of his manifold gifts. You will remember me most tenderly to de…
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_To Mr. J―――― S――――._ _Philadelphia, June 4, 1747._ _Very dear Sir_, YESTERDAY I received your very kind and judicious letter. In answer to it, must inform you, that in all probability I shall once more see my dear _New-England_ friends this summer. I suppose it will be some time in _July_. At present my whole frame…
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_To Mr. P――――._ _Philadelphia, June 5, 1747._ _Very Dear Sir_, THOUGH this frail nature of mine has lately received several very great shocks, yet I cannot, if strength admits, omit writing you a line. Glad was I when I came to town, to hear by Captain _G――――_ that you was so far recovered, as to be able once more t…
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