Anglican evangelist · Methodist

George Whitefield

Born: 1714
Died: 1770

English Anglican clergyman and open-air preacher, a leader of the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival in Britain and of the Great Awakening in the American colonies, and the foremost Calvinistic Methodist preacher of his age.

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A Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley in Answer to His Sermon Entitled 'Free Grace'

Whitefield's open letter answering John Wesley's sermon Free Grace, defending election and final perseverance against Wesley's attack on predestination while pleading for continued love between the two evangelists; the classic statement of the Calvinist side of the Methodist controversy.

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The Almost Christian

Whitefield's sermon on Agrippa's words 'Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian', describing the half-hearted religion of those who go only part of the way with Christ and pressing the call to give him the whole heart.

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