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George Whitefield: Evangelist Of The Great Awakening

By Austin B. Tucker

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Austin B. Tucker is a preacher, teacher and writer who lives in Shreveport, LA.

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1. Stuart Clark Henry, George Whitefield, Wayfaring Witness. (New York: Abingdon, 1957), pp. 68-71.

2. Albert D. Belden, George Whitefield–The Awakener: A Modern Study of the Evangelical Revival (Nashville: Cokesbury, 1930), p. 64.

3. J. P. Gledstone, "George Whitefield," (London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d.), 114.

4. ibid, p. 10-11

5. ibid, p. 13.

6. Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, Vol. II, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1970 reprint of 1905 edition), p. 313.
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7. Luke Tyerman, The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, in Two Volumes, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995 reprint of 1876-77 original by Azel, Texas: Need of the Times), Vol I, pp. 428-29, and Arnold Dallimore, George Whitefield: Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth-Century Revival, in Two Volumes, (London: Banner of Truth Trust), p. 538. These two biographies are the source of most of the basic data in this article.

8. Belden, p. 4.

9. Tyerman II, pp. 283-84. The Latin, aliquid Christi is "Something of Christ."

10. Belden, p. 81.

11. Henry, p. 163.

12. Tyerman, Vol. I, p. 374. Also revealing of Franklin's respect for Whitefield is a letter just ten years before the American Revolution proposing the evangelist partner with him in establishing a new colony on the Ohio. Harry S. Stout, The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), p. 232.

13. Clyde Fant and William Pinson, Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching, Vol. III, (Waco: Word, 1971), p. 137.

14. Henry, p.136, citing "Answer to the Bishop," from Whitefield's Works, p. 24.

15. Henry, p. 62.

16. J. I. Packer, "Introduction" in Tyerman, Vol. I, p. i.

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