George Whitefield: A Biography, with Special Reference to His Labors in America

Belcher, Joseph

Verlag: American Tract Society ca. 1860, New York, 1860

Teal publisher's cloth stamped in blind, 5 x 7 1/2 inches, binding tight with dull gilt to spine, corners & ends a tad frayed. Frontispiece portrait of Whitefield preaching with uplifted arms, engraved by F. Halpin, with tissue guard. 514 pp., 3 additional plates. Pages generally clean with some foxing; frontispiece is darkly foxed. Sabin 4401; Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, B2051. No. 1076 in Roberts, Whitefield in Print. "A delightful volume with many interesting anecdotes."George Whitefield (1714-1770), born in Gloucester, England. Whitefield was the founder of the Calvinistic branch of the Methodists. From 1739 to 1770 he was engaged in open air preaching greatly owned of God and used for the salvation and revival of many. He traveled to the American colonies seven times, and was the instrument through whom the Evangelical Revival, or the "Great Awakening" was commenced and carried forth in America. "He is the most extraordinary man in our times. He has the most commanding eloquence I ever heard in any person; his abilities are very considerable; his zeal unquenchable; and his piety and excellence genuine, - unquestionable." Lord Bolingbroke. "He served to awaken to a consciousness of their deplorable state thousands to whose apathy and ignorance a colder preacher might have spoken in vain; and perhaps even the Church of England itself has been less impaired by the schism than benefited by the effects of emulation upon her learned clergy." Sir Walter Scott.Joseph Belcher, D. D. (1794-1859), b. in England, d. in Philadelphia. He was a Baptist minister who came to the United States in 1844. A prolific author, he wrote over 200 books. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8356

Bibliografische Details

Titel: George Whitefield: A Biography, with Special...
Verlag: American Tract Society ca. 1860, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1860
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good