Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

by George Whitefield

Publisher:

Faithlife

, 1999

Overview

George Whitefield, a friend of both John Wesley and Benjamin Franklin, is considered to be one of the instrumental forces in the beginning of what is known as "The Great Awakening". Whitefield, an English itinerant preacher who was passionate in his oratory, attracted some of the largest crowds of his day. Thousands would gather in fields to hear him preach as he travelled both the English countryside and the colonies, soon to become the United States of America. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield contains over 50 of Whitefield's sermons, on a variety of topics, and are still edifying to read and study today.

Contents

Top Highlights

“purpose to convince him of the necessity of an imputed righteousness.” (source)

“God knew very well that Adam was naked, and that he had eaten of the forbidden fruit, But God would know it from Adam’s own mouth. Thus God knows all our necessities before we ask, but yet insists upon our asking for his grace, and confessing our sins. For, by such acts, we acknowledge our dependence upon God, take shame to ourselves, and thereby give glory to his great name.” (source)

“(for if the devil can persuade us not to resist, but to commune with him, he hath gained a great point)” (source)

“‘Ye shall not surely die. Surely; God will not be so cruel as to damn you only for eating an apple, it cannot be.’ Alas! How many does Satan lead captive at his will, by flattering them, that they shall not surely die; that hell torments will not be eternal; that God is all mercy; that he therefore will not punish a few years sin with an eternity of misery? But Eve found God as good as his word; and so will all they who go on in sin, under a false hope that they shall not surely die.” (source)

“What child of God can expect to escape slander, when God himself was thus slandered even in paradise?” (source)

Product Details

• Title: Selected Sermons of George Whitefield
• Author: George Whitefield
• Publisher: Logos Research Systems
• Publication Date: 1999

About George Whitefield

George Whitefield (1714–1770) was one of the founders of Methodism and influential in the spread of the Great Awakening in both Britain and the British North American colonies. He believed in preaching his sermons without notes in order to allow room for the Holy Spirit to guide his speaking, and was known for his theatrical delivery.

Whitefield studied at Oxford, where he met Charles and John Wesley. The Wesley brothers were a part of what was referred to as the “Holy Club” on campus, which Whitefield joined and by which he was quite influenced, later becoming the president. In 1738, he came to America for the first of seven trips he would make across the ocean. During this first trip, he founded the orphanage Bethseda just outside of Savannah, Georgia.

Throughout his life, he toured all over New England, England, Scotland, and Wales, preaching to crowds of up to tens of thousands at a time, greatly influencing the Great Awakening and the early Methodist Church.

Selected Sermons of George Whitefield contains over 50 of Whitefield’s sermons on a variety of topics, which are still edifying to read and study today, and you can find hundreds of his letters and journal entries in The Works of George Whitefield (13 vols.).