George Whitefield : The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival

by Dallimore, Arnold A.

• ISBN13: 9780851513003
• ISBN10: 085151300X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Banner of Truth

Summary

Volume 2 follows events onwards until his death in 1770. An outstanding biography, popularly written, and with an urgent message for the present day.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introductory On the Common Concept of Relations Between Wesley and Whitefield	1	(18)
Part IV The Controversy
Wesley Enters Into the Leadership of the Movement	19	(24)
Whitefield Meets the Supreme Trial of His Life	43	(12)
Whitefield's Reply to Wesley's Sermon	55	(10)
Rebuilding the Work	65	(18)
Part V The Calvinistic Evangelist of Two Continents
Scotland	83	(18)
Marriage	101	(14)
Storming Satan's Strongholds	115	(6)
Cambuslang	121	(18)
Seeking Reconciliation With Wesley	139	(10)
Organizing the Work	149	(12)
Trials and Triumphs	161	(18)
The Great Awakening	179	(14)
Healing the Wounds in the Work in America	193	(14)
Labouring in the Gospel under a Crushing Load of Debt	207	(18)
Bermuda	225	(6)
Dissensions and Rivalries in England	231	(16)
Part VI The Helper of all the Revival
`Let the Name of Whitefield Perish!'	247	(14)
The Gospel to the Great	261	(22)
A Closer Look at One Year of Whitefield's Life	283	(12)
The Loss of Howell Harris	295	(10)
The Evangelical Party in the Church of England	305	(20)
Whitefield's Moravian Letter: Right or Wrong?	325	(10)
Helping Wesley	335	(20)
Two New Tabernacles	355	(10)
The Fifth Visit to America	365	(10)
The Death of John Cennick	375	(8)
Tottenham Court Road Chapel	383	(12)
At the Mercy of the Mob in Ireland	395	(6)
Sunshine and Shadow	401	(14)
Part VII The Years of Failing Strength
The Invalid	415	(10)
To America Again - the Sixth Visit	425	(16)
Whitefield and Franklin	441	(14)
Last Labours in Britain	455	(22)
Whitefield as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Assistant	477	(12)
Last Labours in America	489	(14)
Part VIII Death and Commemoration
Absent From the Body, Present With the Lord	503	(6)
The Memory of the Just	509	(8)
The Measure of the Man	517	(22)
Appendix	539	(10)
Supplement A Letter to the Rev. Mr John Wesley in Answer to his sermon entitled `Free Grace'.	549	(22)
Select Bibliography	571	(10)
Index	581