Voices and influences
George Whitefield
The open-air preacher who crossed the Atlantic thirteen times and preached to crowds no building could hold.
Summary
This site quotes George Whitefield 2 times across 2 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1714 to 1770, English.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 1 of 2.
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George Whitefield
- Lived
- 1714 to 1770
- Nation
- English
- Tradition
- Calvinistic Methodist
2 of 2 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because George Whitefield died in 1770 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those Hearers in the open Fields.”
Matthew 9:36 When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. BSB
“Many, nay most that preach, I fear do not experimentally know Christ; yet I cannot see much worldly Advantage to tempt them to take upon them the sacred Function.”
A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, pages 56 to 57
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Romans 10:14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes George Whitefield 2 times across 2 books.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
George Whitefield, an innkeeper's son converted at Oxford alongside the Wesleys, took to preaching in the open fields when church pulpits closed to him — first to the coal miners of Kingswood, who wept white channels through the coal dust on their faces. For thirty years he preached daily, sometimes hourly, on both sides of the Atlantic; contemporary estimates put his largest crowds in the tens of thousands, and the skeptical Benjamin Franklin, pacing off the distance at Philadelphia, calculated the voice could genuinely reach thirty thousand ears. He was the human hinge of the Great Awakening, binding the colonial revivals into one movement. He preached his last sermon standing on a barrel in Exeter, New Hampshire, and died the next morning at Newburyport, where he is buried beneath the pulpit.
2 quotations across 2 books