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.