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Would you pray with me?

Father in heaven, we want so much now to be strengthened in our pastoral labors and our evangelistic labors in our families and in

our own souls, our worship of Christ and our obedience to him and so be pleased to let Whitfield

speak and let his life speak again he was so mighty in the word and mighty in the spirit, and by biography he lives on, and we praise you for that.

He was a sinner, regenerated and justified and now completely

pure in his soul, one day to be raised from the dead all by grace and I pray that we would

learn from him and be helped by him in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Just so that you don't feel any pressure to write anything down if it's a juicy Whitfield quote, this manuscript will be online, I think, before I'm done here, with its 89 footnotes.

So don't feel the need to write anything down because I'm sure it's all here and you can just relax, think, pray, ask the

Lord to sanctify this word to you personally rather than trying to record anything since

you just go to your computer and get it all afterwards.

The facts about Whitfield's life as a 18th century itinerant Anglican evangelist from the from the beginning of his

ministry until the end are almost unbelievable.

I mean, can they really be true?

And all I know to say is that multiple attestations of his life from those who knew him and the agreement of biographers who don't like

him and do like him all of that seems to say these things are so as incredible as

they are.

So let me try to paint a picture of that unbelievable life

and then we'll tackle a few things about him.

From his first outdoor sermon on February 17, 1739 at the age of 24 to those coal miners in Kingswood, your Bristol in England,

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