he died in the house of his old friend Whitefield,
adjoining the Tabernacle, in Moorfields. For thirteen
years, his sufferings were terrible; but his patience and
cheerfulness were surprising to all who knew him. A few
days before his death, he became very ill while attending
service in the Tabernacle. The doctor would not permit
him to be removed to his own house, as it was probable the
removal would issue in his death. To the minister of the
Tabernacle, he said, “Christ is kind to me. I long for my
dissolution. O! my dear boy, preach, preach Christ to the
people! Never spare them. Be faithful to them; and think
of the worth of a precious soul. Go on, and never be
tired.” Mr. West was interred under the communion table
of Tottenham Court Road chapel, in a vault containing the
remains of Whitefield’s wife, also of his own wife, and of
Mr. Keen, his “trusty” colleague. It is worth mentioning
that Whitefield and West died on the same day of the year,
the 30th of September, and that they and Keen all died on
the same day of the month. (_Evangelical Magazine_, 1796,
pp. 518–21.)
498 – Eighteen Sermons, by Whitefield, transcribed by Gurney,
p. 44.
499 – Ibid., p. 75.
500 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 406.
501 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 286.
502 – Eighteen Sermons, by Whitefield, p. 24.
503 – MS.
504 – Whitefield’s pamphlet had an enormous circulation. At
least, six editions were issued in 1763.
505 – In 1739.
506 – Wesley’s Journal.
507 – Soon after his embarkation, it was reported that
Whitefield was dead. (_Lloyd’s Evening Post_, September 26,
1763.)
508 – Lady Selina Hastings, who died of fever, on May 12, 1763.
509 – “Life of C. Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 221.
510 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, April 16, 1764.
511 – Bancroft’s “History of the United States.”
512 – For enlarged views, indomitable energy, and arduous toils,
and for the great results of his labours in the cause
of religion and learning, Dr. Wheelock had few superiors.
For forty-five years, he was one of the most eloquent
and successful ministers in New England. He conducted his
Indian Mission School until his death, in 1779.
513 – “Lady Huntingdon and her Friends,” p. 151.
514 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 310.
515 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 311.
516 – Ibid., p. 313.
517 – These, probably, were a supply of his own “Collection
of Hymns,” the twelfth edition of which was this year
published: 16mo., 182 pp.
518 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 315.
519 – Whitefield’s catholicity of spirit won him friendships
almost everywhere. On one occasion, when preaching from
the balcony of the Courthouse, in Philadelphia, in an
apostrophe, he exclaimed, “‘Father Abraham, who have you
in heaven? any Episcopalians?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any Presbyterians?’
‘No.’ ‘Any Baptists?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any Methodists, Seceders,
or Independents?’ ‘No, no!’ ‘Why, who have you there?’
‘We don’t know those names here. All who are here are
Christians.’ ‘Oh, is that the case? Then, God help me!
and God help us all to forget party names, and to become
Christians in deed and truth.’” (Belcher’s “Biography of
Whitefield,” p. 207.)
520 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1782, p. 440.
521 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 317.
522 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, April 10, 1765.
523 – Thomas Adams, one of Whitefield’s helpers, when he was
moderator of the Calvinistic Methodists, but now the
founder and pastor of the Tabernacle at Rodborough, in
the county of Gloucester. (“Bristol Tabernacle Centenary
Services,” p. 90.)
524 – Notwithstanding Whitefield’s long absence, and the
recentness of his return, she had been a fortnight in the
country! (Whitefield’s Works vol. iii., p. 330.)
525 – Messrs. Collet and Ireland were the chief men in the
Bristol Tabernacle. (“Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,”
p. 148.)
526 – The Hon. and Rev. Walter Shirley, brother of the notorious
Earl Ferrers, and a first cousin of the Countess of
Huntingdon. He had been converted under the ministry of
Venn, and was now an evangelical and earnest minister of
Christ.
527 – The Rev. Joseph Townsend, son of the celebrated Alderman
Townsend, of London, and fellow of Clare Hall; Cambridge,
and rector of Pewsey, in Wiltshire. He also heartily
co-operated with the Methodist clergymen of the day.
528 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 468.
529 – “The chapel,” wrote Horace Walpole, “is very neat,
with true Gothic windows.” (“Life and Times of Wesley,”
vol. ii., p. 558.)
530 – Wesley’s Journal.
531 – Wesley’s Journal.
532 – “Memoirs of C. Winter,” p. 63.
533 – On this occasion, the Earl and Countess of Sutherland were
among Whitefield’s hearers. Immediately after, the Earl
was attacked with a putrid fever. For twenty-one nights
and days, without intermission or retiring to rest, the
Countess watched over her noble husband. She then sunk
and died, the Earl himself dying seventeen days afterwards.
The Earl of Sutherland was in his thirty-first, and
his Countess in her twenty-fifth year. They left behind
them an infant daughter, who succeeded her father in the
honours of Sutherland, and married the Marquis of Stafford.
She died in 1839. (“Life and Times of the Countess of
Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 473.)
534 – Old Newspaper.
535 – This Indian school was ultimately merged in Dartmouth
College, of which Wheelock was the first president.
536 – Brown’s “History of Missions,” vol. iii., p. 481.
537 – It is said, that the first Sunday school in the United
States was founded in the house of Occum’s sister, a
few months after his death. (Belcher’s “Biography of
Whitefield,” p. 387.)
538 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 375.
After the death of Mr. Powys, in 1775, his widow became
the second wife of Sir Rowland Hill, of Hawkeston, Bart.
539 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 338.
540 – Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 250.
541 – Charles Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 247.
542 – Charles Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 249.
543 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 476.
544 – “Life of John Fawcett, D.D.,” p. 36.
545 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1810, p. 351.
546 – _Methodist Magazine_, 1808, p. 376.
547 – “Mr. Whitefield,” says Fletcher, “was not a flighty orator,
but spoke the words of soberness and truth, with divine
pathos, and floods of tears declarative of his sincerity.”
(Fletcher’s Works, vol. i., p. 298.)
548 – Another Methodist clergyman, who, afterwards, resided at
West Bromwich. “He is,” said Henry Venn, “a very excellent
man, and seems appointed to evangelise the _Wolds_, the
inhabitants of which are dark almost as the heathens.”
(“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 41; and Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 161.)
549 – The famous Methodist clergyman, in Wales.
550 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1797, pp. 397–407.
A small monument, in memory of Torial Joss, exists at
Tottenham Court Road chapel; but, strangely enough, it is
placed in one of the vestries, and, therefore, scarcely
ever seen.
551 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 214.
552 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1815, p. 272.
553 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
pp. 317–319.
554 – “Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 25.
555 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 378.
556 – The volumes were published in numbers. Hence the following
advertisement, taken from an old newspaper: “This day
is published, recommended by the Rev. Mr. G. Whitefield,
Number I., containing five sheets, and a head of the
author, price only sixpence, of a new and beautiful
edition of the works of Mr. John Bunyan, the whole to
be comprised in eighty-four numbers. Those who incline
to take the work in complete sets, may subscribe for the
same, paying one guinea at the time of subscribing, and
the remainder on the delivery of the two volumes; and those
who subscribe for six sets shall have a seventh gratis.”
557 – Mr. Green was one of Whitefield’s occasional assistants,
but subsisted by teaching a school. (“Winter’s Memoirs,”
p. 45.)
558 – “Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 68.
559 – “Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 75.
560 – “Winter’s Memoirs,” p. 21.
561 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 344.
562 – Ibid.
563 – Wesley’s Journal.
564 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 379.
565 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 344; and “Life of Rev.
Rowland Hill,” p. 29.
566 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 158.
567 – This was Whit-Sunday. The following is from _Lloyd’s
Evening Post_ of June 15, 1767: “They write from
Haverfordwest that, on Whit-Sunday, about eight in the
morning, the Rev. Mr. Whitefield’s congregation consisted
of upwards of ten thousand people.” The ensuing extracts
are taken from the archives of the Moravian Church at
Haverfordwest:――
“1767. May 31. Many people flocked from the country to
hear Mr. Whitefield preach. At the conclusion of his
sermon, at eight in the morning, he bid the people go
to any place of worship where Christ alone is preached.
Numbers hastened to our chapel, and crowded it; and
Brother Nyberg preached to them on, ‘We preach Christ
crucified.’ Our dear Saviour was in our midst.
“June 7 (Whit-Sunday). Such a crowd came from hearing
Mr. Whitefield, that we were obliged, as on Sunday last,
to drop our morning meeting; and Brother Nyberg prayed the
Litany in the pulpit, and preached on, ‘He shall testify
of me: and ye also shall bear witness.’ A still greater
number attended the afternoon preaching, when Brother
Parminster discoursed on Proverbs i. 20–24. Amongst the
hearers were four Methodist preachers.”
568 – The Rev. John Newton, who, after many rebuffs, had three
years before obtained ordination, and was now curate at
Olney.
569 – The reference here is probably to the Society of Students
just mentioned, and of which Rowland Hill was the _leader_.
(“Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 26.)
570 – As will soon be seen, there was, at this time, a Society
of Methodist Students at Oxford, similar to the Society at
Cambridge.
571 – “Life of Rev. Rowland Hill,” p. 29.
572 – Dr. Hodge’s “History of the Presbyterian Church in America,”
pt. ii., p. 395.
♦573 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, May 4, 1758.
574 – The “intended buildings” were thirty-two small dwellings
for the students, sixteen on each side of the Orphan House.
Also two residences for tutors, a kitchen, and a laundry.
575 – The Rev. Mr. Zububuhler was the rector of Savannah.
(“Memoirs of Rev. Cornelius Winter,” p. 109.)
576 – Whitefield subjoins a note to this, saying, “This college
was originally built, above twenty-eight years ago, for a
charity school, and preaching place for me, and ministers
of various denominations, on the bottom of the doctrinal
articles of the Church of England.”
577 – Rowland Hill had called at Oxford, on his way home, and
had a profitable meeting with the Methodist students there.
(“Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 31.)
578 – “Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 32.
579 – Thomas Pentycross, who soon after became an earnest and
useful clergyman of the Church of England.
580 – This was threatened in the case of one of Rowland Hill’s
college friends. (“Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 34).
581 – “Life of Rev. R. Hill,” p. 34.
582 – Wesley’s Journal.
583 – “Rod for a Reviler. By Thomas Olivers, 1777,” p. 58.
584 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 352.
585 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 299.
586 – Ibid., vol. i., p. 291.
587 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, September 21, 1767.
588 – The Rev. Richard Conyers, LL.D., vicar of Helmsley,
another earnest Methodist clergyman.
589 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 356; and “Life and Times
of Countess of Huntington,” vol. i., p. 299; and “Life of
Rev. Henry Venn,” p. 134.
590 – Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 253.
591 – A foot-note, in Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 360,
says the collection amounted to £105 13s.
592 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”
593 – MS. Letter.
594 – Afterwards ennobled as Baron Erskine and Lord High
Chancellor of Great Britain.
595 – Doubtless by Whitefield himself.
596 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 18.
597 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 122.
598 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 415.
599 – “Brief Account of Howell Harris, Esq., 1791,” p. 95; and
Morgan’s “Life and Times of H. Harris,” p. 243.
600 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
pp. 78–81.
601 – March 25, 1768.
602 – This was absolutely false. (_Lloyd’s Evening Post_,
March 30, 1768.)
603 – A letter, in _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 30, 1768, says
it was “utterly false.”
604 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 425.
605 – “Boswell’s Life of Johnson.”
606 – In the Journal of his second visit to America, Whitefield
remarked, “When the spirit of prayer began to be lost,
then forms of prayer were invented.” There is more truth
in this than some will be willing to allow.
607 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, March 23, 1768.
608 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 126.
609 – This edition of the “Letter” to Dr. Durell was in 12mo.,
47 pp.
610 – Macgowan’s pamphlet on the same subject.
611 – “Life of Rowland Hill.” By Sidney, p. 44.
612 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”
613 – _Christian Miscellany_, 1856, p. 218.
614 – Some years ago, when the chapel was seriously injured by
fire, this monument was destroyed.
615 – “Annual Register,” 1769, p. 110.
616 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”
617 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”
618 – “Whitefield’s Eighteen Sermons,” transcribed by Gurney,
p. 199.
619 – There can be little doubt that this was the portrait by
Hone, of which the engraving in the present volume is a
copy. The Royal Academy was founded in 1768, and Hone was
one of its first members.
620 – Wesley’s Journal.
621 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 128.
622 – His wife.
623 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 27.
624 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 27.
625 – Whitefield preached again in the evening, and also on
the day following, when his text was 1 Thess. ii. 11, 12.
(Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”)
626 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, July 31, 1769.
627 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 129.
628 – August 9, 1769.
629 – Captain Joss was now in Bristol. (Whitefield’s Works,
vol. iii., p. 392.)
630 – _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, August 28, 1769.
631 – “Two Farewell Sermons, by Rev. G. Whitefield, 1770;” and
“Eighteen Sermons, by Rev. George Whitefield, 1771.”
632 – In the crowds who listened to Whitefield’s last sermons
in London, was a youth, seventeen years of age,――George
Burder, afterwards a devoted and useful minister of
Christ, the originator of the Religious Tract Society,
secretary of the London Missionary Society, editor of
the _Evangelical Magazine_, and author of the well-known
“Village Sermons.” Burder’s conversion has been attributed
to the ministry of Whitefield and Fletcher of Madeley.
(“Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society,”
p. 24.) In his Journal, he wrote:――“1769. August.
About this time, I heard Mr. Whitefield preach several
sermons, particularly his two last in London; that at
Tottenham Court chapel on Sabbath morning, and that at
the Tabernacle on Wednesday morning at seven o’clock. I
remember a thought which passed my mind, I think, as I
was going to hear his last sermon, ‘Which would I rather
be, Garrick or Whitefield?’ I thought each, in point of
oratory, admirable in his way. I doubt not conscience told
me which was best. I wrote Mr. Whitefield’s sermons in
shorthand, though standing in a crowd.” (“Life of Rev.
George Burder,” by his Son.)
633 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”
634 – It has been already stated, that, the publication of
this volume led to great unpleasantness. Joseph Gurney
was a bookseller, in Holborn, opposite Hatton Garden. From
an 8vo. pamphlet of eight pages, published at the time,
and entitled, “J. Gurney’s Appeal to the Public,” it
appears, that, on November 13, 1770, an agreement was made
between Gurney and Mr. Keen, whereby Keen bound himself
to “recommend and authenticate” Gurney’s publication,
and Gurney agreed to give to Keen a shilling upon every
copy sold. Gurney drew up an advertisement, which Keen
engaged to have read in the pulpits of the Tabernacle and
Tottenham Court Road chapel; but his engagement was not
fulfilled. When the printing of the volume was nearly
completed, Gurney sent the first nine sermons to Keen,
and, a few days afterwards, met Mr. Hardy, who told him
the “sermons were like the ravings of a madman, and were
utterly unfit for publication.” Messrs. Keen, Hardy, and
West offered to pay Gurney all the money he had spent,
on condition that the sermons should not be issued to the
public; but Gurney refused the offer. Mr. Kinsman read a
notice from the Tabernacle pulpit, that, such a volume was
about to be published, but stated that the “sermons were
not Mr. Whitefield’s, either in sentiment or expression;”
though, as Gurney alleges, Kinsman had previously
acknowledged “the sermons were as delivered by Whitefield,
but that Whitefield’s discourses, of late years, were
very unfit for the press without undergoing considerable
alterations.” Gurney had another angry interview with
Keen and Hardy. The latter, on September 14, 1771,
published the advertisement, printed, as a foot-note, in
Whitefield’s collected Works, vol. iii., page 406. Gurney,
however, persisted in publishing his book, but announced
that if any purchasers were of opinion the “sermons were
not genuine,” he would return to them their purchase money.
He sold upwards of six hundred copies, but “not a single
buyer expressed the least dissatisfaction.”
635 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”
636 – With one or two exceptions, the _whole_ of these letters
were subscribed, “_Less than the least of all_, George
Whitefield.”
637 – Wesley had recently joined in the services held in
connection with the Countess of Huntingdon’s Academy at
Trevecca. These services extended from the 18th to the
24th of August. The scene was memorable. Besides the
Countess and a number of her aristocratic friends, there
were present eight clergymen of the Church of England,
a host of Welsh exhorters, the students, and an immense
concourse of communicants and spectators. On leaving
Trevecca, Wesley set out for Cornwall, so that he had
no opportunity of a final hand-shake with his old friend,
embarking for America.
638 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1783, p. 274.
639 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 88.
640 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”
641 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”
642 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 89.
643 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 408.
644 – “Life of Charles Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 244.
645 – Still, if the drinking of toasts had been omitted, there
was nothing more objectionable in Whitefield’s gathering,
than is sometimes witnessed among English Methodists at
the present day; when a whole cavalcade wend their way, on
the holy Sabbath, to some country town, to be present at
the opening of some new meeting-house, and to be charmed
and profited by some popular preacher.
646 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 255.
647 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 501.
648 – Whitefield intended to publish a new edition of the
Homilies, and wrote a preface and compiled a number of
prayers and hymns to be bound up with them. He strongly
urged the reading of the Homilies from the pulpits of
the Established Church, in accordance with the direction
given in the Thirty-fifth Article, and very justly argued
that, if this were done, “the desk and pulpit would not so
frequently contradict each other.” (See Whitefield’s Works,
vol. iv., pp. 441–454.)
649 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 256.
650 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,”
pp. 259–267.
651 – “Asbury’s Journal,” vol. i., p. 78.
652 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 263.
653 – “Memoirs of Cornelius Winter,” p. 144.
654 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 269.
655 – _Wesleyan Methodist Magazine_, 1825, p. 841.
It is right to add, that the authorities of Savannah, out
of respect to Whitefield’s memory, secured what they could
of the ruined property, and invested the proceeds in a
school, which yet flourishes. (Belcher’s “Biography of
Whitefield,” p. 458.)
656 – Stevens’ “History of the Methodist Episcopal Church,”
vol. iii., p. 50.
657 – Boardman commenced the itinerancy in 1763, and Pilmoor
in 1765.
658 – “Wesley’s Works,” vol. xii., p. 149.
659 – Ibid., vol. iii., p. 400.
660 – Ibid., vol. xi., p. 289.
661 – A strange rumour was circulated, at this time, in the
London newspapers, that Whitefield had returned to England.
_Lloyd’s Evening Post_, of April 2, announced, “Saturday,
March 31, arrived in town, the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,
from Georgia.”
662 – It is a noticeable fact that two of Whitefield’s oldest
fellow labourers died in the same year as himself,――the
Rev. Howell Davies, “the head of Calvinistic Methodism in
Pembrokeshire,” and faithful Thomas Adams, the leader of
the same cause in Gloucestershire and Wilts. (“Memoirs of
Cornelius Winter,” p. 147.)
663 – Jesse Lee, who became a Methodist preacher in America,
twelve years after Whitefield’s death, says in his
“History of the Methodists in America” (p. 36), “In the
year 1770, Mr. Whitefield passed through Philadelphia, and,
calling on our preachers who were in that city, expressed
to them his great satisfaction at finding them in this
country, where there was such a great call for faithful
labourers in the vineyard of the Lord. His labours, as an
itinerant preacher, had been greatly blessed to the people
in America; and, thereby, the way was opened for our
preachers to travel and preach in different parts of the
country.”
664 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1807, p. 292.
665 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 358.
666 – _Methodist Magazine_, 1811, p. 788.
667 – In the _Pennsylvania Journal_, a letter was published,
bearing date “Portsmouth, September 28, 1770.” The writer
said, “Last Sunday morning came to town, from Boston, the
Rev. George Whitefield; and, in the afternoon, he preached
at the Rev. Dr. Haven’s meeting-house: Monday morning,
he preached again at the same place, to a very large
and crowded audience. Tuesday morning, a most numerous
assembly met at the Rev. Dr. Langdon’s meeting-house,
which, it is said, will hold nearly 6,000 people, and was
well filled, even the aisles. In the evening, he preached
at the Rev. Mr. John Rodgers’ meeting-house in Kittery;
and yesterday, at the Rev. Mr. Lyman’s, in York, to
which place a number of ladies and gentlemen from town
accompanied him. This morning (Friday) he will preach
at the Rev. Dr. Langdon’s meeting-house in this town.”
(Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 433.)
668 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”
669 – Lee’s “History of American Methodists,” p. 36.
670 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield.”
671 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 435.
672 – _St. James’s Chronicle_, November 8, 1770.
673 – _Methodist World_, February 1, 1870.
674 – _Methodist World_, Feb. 1, 1870.
675 – Stevens’ “History of Methodism,” vol. i., p. 466.
676 – There can be but little doubt that the disease which
terminated Whitefield’s life was _angina pectoris_.
677 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”
678 – “Funeral Sermon,” etc., by Rev. Jonathan Parsons, p. 28.
679 – Ibid.
680 – Ibid.
681 – Stevens’ “History of Methodism,” vol. i., p. 467.
682 – “Funeral Sermon,” etc., by Rev. Jonathan Parsons, p. 31.
683 – Whitefield’s friends, at Boston, intended to have him
buried there. Hence the following, from a letter dated
“Boston, October 2, 1770”:――“A number of gentlemen set out
from hence, early this morning, for Newbury Port, which
is forty miles from Boston, in order to make the necessary
preparations for conveying the corpse of the Rev. Mr.
Whitefield to this town, where he is to be interred,
agreeable to his own request.”
684 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 385.
685 – Winter’s “Memoirs,” p. 104.
686 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 447.
687 – _Gospel Magazine_, 1802, p. 12.
688 – Southey’s “Life of Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 379.
689 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 399.
690 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 400.
691 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1839, pp. 443, 590.
692 – Wakeley’s “Anecdotes,” p. 389.
693 – _The Methodist_ (New York), Sept. 12, 1863.
694 – In 1834, the Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., of London, and the
Rev. James Matheson, D.D., of Durham, visited America as
a deputation from the Congregational Union of England and
Wales; and, in 1835, a similar deputation, consisting of
the Rev. Dr. Cox, and the Rev. Dr. Hoby, was sent from
the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Both the
deputations entered Whitefield’s sepulchre, and have left
descriptions of what they saw and felt; but for want of
space, their reports cannot be inserted here.