PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 3 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 · 178,550 words · 629 reading sections
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_July 5th._ Since writing the above, I have been in the wars.――But blessed be GOD am pretty well recovered, and going on my way rejoicing.――Pray hard.…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _Dublin, July 9, 1757._ _My dear Friend_, MANY attacks have I had from Satan’s children, but yesterday, you would have thought he had been permitted to have given me an effectual parting blow. You have heard of my being in _Ireland_, and of my preaching daily to large and very affected auditories, in …
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_To Mr. I――――._ _Cork, July 15, 1757._ _My very dear Mr. I――――_, ACCEPT a few loving lines, as a token that you and yours are not entirely forgotten by me. They leave me, earnestly desirous to know what path the GOD whom I serve would have me to take. Every where (O amazing condescension!) the glorious _Emmanuel_ so…
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_To the Reverend Mr. G――――._ _Wednesbury, Staffordshire, August 7, 1757._ _Reverend and very dear Sir,_ THOUGH Mr. _Hopper_ promised to write you an ♦historical, letter as last _Thursday_ from _Dublin_, yet I cannot help dropping you a few lines from this place. Blessed be GOD, we had a passage, and last night we ha…
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_To Mrs. C――――._ _London, August 26, 1757._ _Dear Mrs. C――――_, I THINK myself quite happy, in finding that you are satisfied in your present situation.――I have no doubt of your being called to do it by _Bethesda_’s GOD, and heartily pray that you may be amply rewarded by Him.――I had rather have you preside over the …
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_To Mr. H――――._ _Exeter, September 28, 1757._ _My very dear Sir_, JUST this moment I had the pleasure of receiving your very kind letter, and have but just time, before the post goes out, to return you my most hearty thanks. Blessed be GOD, I can send you good news from _Plymouth_.――The scene was like that of _Brist…
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_To Mr. K――――n._ _Bristol, October 4, 1757._ _My very dear Mr. K――――n_, HAD you encouragement enough last journey, to induce you and yours to take another trip? My wife informs me so; she hath the rout. I expect a line from her at _Gloucester_, to inform me of your determination. Whatever it be, may it be for the gl…
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_To the Reverend Mr. G――――._ _London, October 16, 1757._ _Reverend and very dear Sir_, I THANK you for your sympathizing letter sent to _Ireland_. The friend of sinners stood by me, or I had been stoned to death. They were thrown at me, not for speaking against the Papists in particular, but for exciting all ranks t…
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_To Lady H――――._ _London, October 21, 1757._ _Ever-honoured Madam_, I BURNT, but I believe I shall never forget the contents of, your Ladyship’s letter. Who but the Redeemer himself, can possibly describe the yearnings of such a tender parent’s heart? Surely your Ladyship is called to cut off a right hand, and pluck…
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_To Mrs. C――――._ _London, October 25, 1757._ _My dear Mrs. C――――_, I FIND by your last to your brother _James_, that you was in jeopardy. But I trust He that once drove away the _Spaniards_, will also preserve you and the rest of my dear family from a French invasion. GOD give you strength and courage! He will. Ever…
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_To Governor E――――._ _London, October 26, 1757._ _Honoured Sir_, I AM glad to hear from my nephew and other hands, that your Excellency’s administration is so universally approved of. I pray GOD to make you a lasting blessing to that colony, which hath long wanted the blessing of an active, skilful and disinterested…
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_To J―――― B――――, Esq._ _London, October 26, 1757._ _My dear Friend_, I AM quite glad to hear, that you have met with encouragement to return again to poor _Georgia_, and that my nephew serves under you. I humbly hope that colony is not to be given over into the enemies hands; but GOD only knows what is before us. Th…
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_To the Reverend Mr. M――――._ _London, November 3, 1757._ YOUR kind letter was very acceptable. Ere now, I trust, the Redeemer hath given you the prospect of the barren wilderness being turned in a fruitful field. Never fear; JESUS will delight to honour you. Every clergyman’s name is Legion. Two more are lately ordai…
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_To Mr. O――――._ _London, November 12, 1757._ _My dear Mr. O――――_, I THANK you very kindly for visiting _Bethesda_ family, and for administering the Lord’s-supper. I am glad to hear that the Master of the feast was present. Ere long I hope we shall be called to the marriage-feast of the supper of the Lamb in heaven. …
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_To Mr. D――――._ _London, November 12, 1757._ _My dear Mr. D――――_, I AM glad you have received my letter. I know not that I have one of yours left unanswered. Blessed be GOD, for causing _Bethesda_ to prosper. May it do so in every sense more and more! I hope you will be preserved from the hands both of temporal and …
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_P. S._ Pray be particular in the account of the family. The LORD JESUS smiles upon us here. He can, and I trust will preserve you from _French_, _Spaniards_, and every hurtful foe. This is my constant prayer.…
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_To Mr. R――――._ _London, November 17, 1757._ _Dear Sir_, YOUR letter to Mr. _D――――_ gave me great satisfaction. The contents, no doubt, made angels to rejoice in heaven, and why not us embodied spirits here on earth. So many called out of one family, is a peculiar mercy. Blessed are the eyes that see the things whic…
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_To Mr. S――――._ _London, November 17, 1757._ _My dear Mr. S――――_, I AM a letter in your debt: I should be glad to answer your last in person. The attraction towards _America_ is as strong as ever, but at present I am stationed here. The word runs and is glorified. I fear the deaths of the Governor and President will…
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_To Mr. M――――._ _London, November 26, 1757._ _My very dear Sir_, I AM very glad you have been so providentially detained at _Thetford_, and that your bow abode in such full strength. The LORD help you to give a good farewel stroke to-morrow! My poor feeble labours almost brought me to the grave this last week; but p…
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_To Mrs. B――――._ _London, December 14, 1757._ _Dear Madam_, THE event only can prove, whether what I am going to mention, is of GOD. Blessed be his holy name, by new-year’s day I hope we shall be able to discharge our chapel debts. Every day proves more and more that it was built for the glory of JESUS CHRIST, and t…
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_To Doctor S――――._ _London, December 15, 1757._ _Reverend and very dear Sir_, IF yet in this dying world, be pleased to accept a few grateful lines, from one who highly esteems you for the sake of our common LORD. Thousands can witness how often I have prayed for you in public, and the great day will discover how ea…
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_To Lady H――――._ _London, December 15, 1757._ _Ever-honoured Madam_, I WISH your Ladyship joy of being for once so long alone: and why? because I am persuaded your Ladyship is never less alone, than at such seasons. Then the Father is in a particular manner with his dear children: and though they seem in themselves …
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_To Lady G―――― H――――._ _London, December 15, 1757._ _Honoured Madam_, HAVING lately heard of your Ladyship’s being returned to _Bath_, I cannot help wishing your Ladyship joy of Sir _Charles_’s most agreeable marriage. May your Ladyship’s present joy be consummated, in seeing them and all your honourable relations s…
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_To the Reverend Mr. T――――._ _London, January 12, 1758._ _My very dear Friend_, YOUR kind letter puzzles me. As the case is so very peculiar, I think you cannot be too particular in writing down what you have been an eye and ear witness to. I think that the calling some ministers together for the ends proposed, is t…
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_To Mrs. S――――._ _London, January 17, 1758._ _Dear Madam_, I WISH you joy of the happy breach made in, or rather happy addition made to your dear family. I thought I should never see it in the same circumstances any more. You may chearfully let _Rebekah_ go. I trust she hath met with an _Isaac_. May they love one an…
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_To Mr. K――――._ _London, January 17, 1758._ _My very dear Timothy_, YOU will deliver the enclosed. I am glad to write a few lines on such an occasion. GOD grant that the remaining dear single ones may be as well disposed of! I bless the LORD that you are enabled to preach at all. I often think of and sympathize with…
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_To Miss G――――, at Clifton._ _London, February 3, 1758._ _Dear Madam_, I WAS glad, after so long a silence, to receive a line from _Clifton_, where I find by report there is like to be a total revolution. Your two worthy friends I have neither seen nor heard from; and good Lady _H――――n_ I have not visited, because I…
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_To Mrs. B―――― B――――, at Bath._ _London, February 3, 1758._ _Dear Madam_, I CANNOT help acquainting you and your honoured sister, and Mrs. _G――――_, that the plan concerted some time ago is likely to be put in execution. The trenches for the wall, I believe are begun, and by the first of _May_, the houses are to be f…
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_To the Reverend Mr. Samuel S――――, in Bath._ _London, February 3, 1758._ _Reverend and dear Sir_, YOUR kind letter drove me to my knees, and as I do not hear of your dear and honoured father’s release, I suppose he is yet detained a prisoner. I shall make public and private mention of him, until I know he is gone be…
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_To Professor F――――._ _London, March 5, 1758._ _Most reverend and dear Sir_, THOUGH I am almost ashamed to put pen to paper, yet the kind mention (as I hear from good Mr. _Z――――_) you have been pleased to make from time to time of me, together with the importunities of that venerable man of GOD, have at length preva…
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_To Mr. K――――._ _London, May 13, 1758._ _My very dear Mr. K――――_, I HOPE this will find you rejoicing in success given to dear Mr. _A――――_’s labours. If he is with you, be pleased to desire him to prepare for coming to _London_ immediately after _Whitsuntide_. He and dear Mr. _D――――_ may be in town whilst I take my …
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_To Mr. ――――._ _Gloucester, May 22, 1758._ _My very dear Sir_, I HOPE you got to _London_ in great safety. Through divine goodness I arrived at _Gloucester_ on _Saturday_ afternoon, and preached thrice and gave the holy sacrament on _Sunday_. Thousands attended, and our LORD gave us a blessed opening of the Summer c…
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_To Mr. B――――._ _Bristol, May 24, 1758._ _My dear Mr. B――――_, DO not take my seeming long silence ill. Indeed it was unavoidable. Ever since the receipt of your kind letter, I have been so exceedingly and yet I trust profitably busied at _London_, that till I left it last week, I had not one moment to spare. However…
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_To Mr. R―――― K――――n._ _Bristol, May 26, 1758._ _My very dear Mr. K――――n_, REPEATED acts of kindness and love, call for repeated acknowledgments. ――Accept therefore hearty thanks for your last _Salt-Hill_ favour, and assure yourself, that neither this nor any former labour of love, will be forgotten by Him, who take…
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_Bristol, May 28, 1758. Nine in the morning._ _My very dear Sir_, I AM quite ashamed, that I should give you so much trouble:――but you are my friend indeed. May the never-failing friend of sinners bless and reward you a thousand fold! I have been just now preaching the unsearchable riches of his grace, to a multitude…
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_To Countess D――――._ _Bristol, June 16, 1758._ _Honoured Madam_, FOR this fortnight past, I expected never to have wrote to, or seen your Ladyship, till I saw you sitting at CHRIST’s right hand. Never was I brought so low as on my late _Welch_ circuit. But as far as I can hear, it was one of the most prosperous I ev…
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_To Lady Fanny S――――._ _Bristol, June 16, 1758._ _Honoured Madam_, I SHALL not for a good while forget my _Twickenham_ journey. It was a day much to be remembered by unworthy me. LORD, why am I thus highly favoured? And yet (O unwearied goodness!) he continues to bless me, vile as I am, more and more. O what delight…
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_To Captain H――――y._ _Bristol, June 16, 1758._ _My very dear Sir_, THE _Welch_ roads have almost demolished my open one-horse chaise, as well as me. But it is in JESUS’s cause. Grace! grace! I am almost ashamed to think of your being put to so much trouble, in procuring a close chaise for unworthy me. I like the pur…
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_To Lady H――――n._ _Bristol, June 17, 1758._ _Ever-honoured Madam_, THIS leaves me returned from _Wales_. It proved a most delightful trying circuit. I suppose your Ladyship hath heard how low I have been in body, scarce ever lower; not able to sit up in company all the time, yet strengthened to travel without bodily…
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_To Mr. S――――._ _Newcastle, July 31, 1758._ _My very dear Sir_, THUS far, a never-failing Redeemer hath brought on the most worthless and weak pilgrim, that was ever employed in publishing his everlasting gospel. All the last week was taken up in preaching at _Everton_, _Saint Neots_, _Kayso_, _Bedford_, _Oulney_, _…
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_To the Reverend Mr. G――――._ _Edinburgh, August 10, 1758._ _My very dear Friend_, I THANK you most heartily for your kind letter of invitation to _G――――_. But alas! what shall I say?――I fear it cannot be complied with. For above these three months last past, I have been so weak in my animal frame, that I can scarcel…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _Edinburgh, August 15, 1758._ _My very dear Sir_, NOT till last _Saturday_, did your first long wished-for letter come to hand. I wonder that _I―――― C――――_ did not dispatch it immediately. As I knew not what its contents would be, I did not write to _Staffordshire_; for I was and am determined to fix …
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_To the Reverend Mr. T――――._ _Edinburgh, August 17, 1758._ _My very dear Friend_, IT is a little hard, that we should be so near, and not have a personal interview. But our LORD orders all things well. Most of my christian meetings must be adjourned to heaven. Thither I have been in hopes of going for many weeks las…
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_To Mr. S――――._ _Edinburgh, August 19, 1758._ _My very dear Sir_, I CAME here a fortnight ago, very low indeed; but by preaching about thirty times, blessed be GOD, I am a good deal better. Multitudes, of all ranks, flock twice every day. A divine influence attends the word, and though sown in so much weakness, I tr…
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_To the Reverend Mr. G――――._ _Edinburgh, August 24, 1758._ _Reverend and very dear Sir_, AFTER long meditation and earnest prayer, I cannot come to any determination about my journey to _Glasgow_. For these four months last past, I have been brought so exceeding low in my body, that I was in hopes every sermon I pre…
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_To the Reverend Mr. T――――._ _Edinburgh, September 9, 1758._ _My very dear Friend_, IT is strange that you and I cannot be more together. I believe Satan doth not like it: ere long we shall get out of his reach. In heaven we shall enjoy our GOD and each others company for ever. O that I moved faster towards it! Comp…
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_To Mr. S――――._ _Darlington, September 21, 1758._ _My very dear Friend_, SURELY it is an age since I had the pleasure of writing to you last. I was then appointed by Providence to stay at _Edinburgh_ the race week: since then, I have been at _Glasgow_, and returned to _Edinburgh_ again. At both places my health grew…
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_To Mr. S――――._ _Leeds, October 11, 1758._ HOW is my very dear friend? I hope, prospering in soul and body. Though absent from, I am often present with him. Ere long we shall be for ever with the LORD. But preaching does not kill me, though twice and sometimes thrice a day, for above this fortnight past. GOD hath bee…
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_To the Reverend Mr. G――――._ _Rotheram, October 15, 1758._ _Reverend and very dear Sir_, SINCE my leaving _Scotland_, in various parts of the north of _England_, as at _Alnwick_, _Newcastle_, _Leeds_, &c. the ever-loving, altogether-lovely JESUS hath manifested forth his glory. Thousands and thousands have flocked t…
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_To Mr. ――――._ _London, October 28, 1758._ _My very dear Sir_, HOW narrowly did I escape seeing you at _Bath!_ I was coming from _Staffordshire_ to _Bristol_, but the change of weather and shortness of the days drove me up to my Winter quarters. I took leave of our young friends, who have been publicly on a scaffold…
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_London, November 3, 1758._ _Dear Sir_, THOUGH I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you next week, yet love and gratitude constrain me to send you an answer to your kind letter. Blessed be GOD, that you have some spiritual ministers and people to converse with! I hope that the waters will be blessed to the recovery …
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_To Mr. D――――._ _London, November 13, 1758._ _My dear Mr. D――――_, I WAS very glad to receive your kind letter dated _August_. Blessed be GOD that the family is so far reduced, and that I can send you word a never-failing Providence hath put it into my power to pay off all _Bethesda_’s arrears. I know this will gladd…
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_To Mrs. C――――._ _London, November 14, 1758._ _Dear Mrs. C――――_, I HAVE waited with some degree of impatience for the arrival of Mrs. _B――――_, with whom, I suppose, you sent your letters. The childrens passage comes hard upon me: but GOD’s will be done! Mr. _J――――n_’s being at _Georgia_ surprizes me. I told Mrs. _H―…
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_To Mrs. C――――._ _London, November 29, 1758._ _Dear Mrs. C――――_, LAST night, after having sent away my packet in the morning, I received your wish’d-for letter dated in _August_. The others referred to in that, never came to hand. But I have since sent Mr. ―――― word, that my affairs should be continued in the presen…
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_To Mr. D――――._ _London, December 5, 1758._ _My dear Mr. D――――_, NOTWITHSTANDING I wrote to you lately, another opportunity offers to send you a line. I send you repeated thanks for your steadiness and care in that house of mercy. With this also come the things you sent for, except Bishop _Hall_’s select works, whic…
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_To Mrs. C――――._ _London, March 26, 1759._ _Dear Mrs. C――――_, IT is now a long time since I heard from _Bethesda_. The draughts, GOD willing, shall be answered. We live in a changing world, and _Bethesda_’s GOD liveth for ever and ever. His word runs and is glorified daily, especially at _Tottenham-Court_. Strange! …
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