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The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 4 (of 6)

Chapter 31: INDEX TO THE TRACTS.
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The volume gathers sermons, tracts, personal letters, and biographical material from a prominent eighteenth-century preacher, presenting defenses of evangelical practice, pastoral replies to ecclesiastical critics, and guidance for fledgling religious societies. Central themes include earnest personal conversion, the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit as assurance of salvation, warnings against lukewarm nominalism, and a careful definition of enthusiasm. Practical counsel on prayer, Christian duties, and communal discipline appears alongside apologetic exchanges with church authorities and previously unprinted pieces prepared for publication, offering both doctrinal argument and everyday pastoral exhortation.


INDEX

TO THE

TRACTS.

ANSWER to the Bishop of London’s Last Pastoral Letter.

page 5

A Letter to the Religious Societies of England.

page 23

A Letter to the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina.

page 37

A Letter to some Church-Members of the Presbyterian Persuasion, in Answer to certain Scruples lately proposed, in proper Queries raised on each Remark.

page 45

A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley: In Answer to his Sermon, entitled, Free-Grace.

page 53

A Vindication and Confirmation of the Remarkable Work of God in New-England. Being some Remarks on a late Pamphlet, entitled, “The State of Religion in New-England, since the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield’s Arrival there”. In a Letter to a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

page 77

A brief Account of the Occasion, Process, and Issue, of a late Trial at the Assize held at Gloucester, March 3, 1743. between some of the People called Methodists, Plaintiffs, and certain Persons of the Town of Minchin-Hampton, in the said County, Defendants.

page 101

An Answer to the First Part of an Anonymous Pamphlet, entitled, “Observations upon the Conduct and Behaviour of a certain Sect, usually distinguished by the Name of Methodists.” In a Letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of London, and the other Right Reverend the Bishops concerned in the Publication thereof.

page 113

A Letter to the Reverend Thomas Church, M.A. Vicar of Battersea, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s; in Answer to his Serious and Expostulatory Letter to the Rev. George Whitefield, on Occasion of his late Letter to the Bishop of London, and other Bishops.

page 125

An Answer to the Second Part of an Anonymous Pamphlet, entitled, “Observations upon the Conduct and Behaviour of a certain Sect, usually distinguished by the Name of Methodists.” In a second Letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of London, and the other the Right Reverend the Bishops concerned in the Publication thereof.

page 143

Some Remarks upon a late Charge against Enthusiasm, delivered by the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, to the Reverend the Clergy in the several Parts of the Diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, in a Triennial Visitation of the same in 1741; and published at their Request in the present Year, 1744. In a Letter to the Reverend the Clergy of that Diocese.

page 173

A Letter to the Reverend the President and Professors, Tutors and Hebrew-Instructor, of Harvard-College, in Cambridge. In Answer to a Testimony published by them against the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, and his Conduct.

page 203

Remarks on a Pamphlet, entitled, “The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared;” wherein several Mistakes in some Parts of my past Writings and Conduct are acknowledged, and my present Sentiments concerning the Methodists explained. In a Letter to the Author.

page 229

An Expostulatory Letter, addressed to Nicholas Lewis, Count Zinzendorff, and Lord Advocate of the Unitas Fratrum.

page 253

A Short Address to Persons of all Denominations; occasioned by the Alarm of an intended Invasion, in the Year 1756.

page 265

A Preface to the Serious Reader, on Behalf of the Rev. Samuel Clarke’s Edition of the Bible.

page 277

Observations on some fatal Mistakes, in a Book lately published and entitled, “The Doctrine of Grace; or, The Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit vindicated from the Insults of Infidelity, and the Abuses of Fanaticism.” By William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester.

page 285

A Recommendatory Preface to the Works of Mr. John Bunyan.

page 305

A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Durell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Occasioned by a late Expulsion of Six Students from Edmund-Hall.

page 311

Observations on Select Passages of Scripture, turned into Catechetical Questions.

page 345

Law Gospelized: or, An Address to all Christians, concerning Holiness of Heart and Life: Being an Attempt to render Mr. Law’s Serious Call more useful to the Children of God, by excluding whatever is not truly Evangelical, and illustrating the Subject more fully from the holy Scriptures.

page 377

Preface to a New Edition of the Homilies; as intended to have been published by Mr. Whitefield.

page 441

PRAYERS,

For one desiring and seeking after the New-Birth.

page 457

For one newly awakened to a Sense of the Divine Life.

page 459

For one under Spiritual Desertion.

page 461

For one under the Displeasure of Relations for being Religious.

page 463

For one entrusted with the Education of Children.

page 465

For a Person in Want.

page 467

Before Singing of Psalms.

page 468

For one before he goes to his Labour.

page 468

For a Rich Man.

page 470

For a Servant.

page 471

For a Poor Negroe.

page 473

For a Person before he goes a Journey.

page 475

For a Person at the Beginning of a Sickness.

page 476

For a Woman lately married to a believing Husband.

page 478

For a Man, convinced that it is his Duty to marry, for Direction in the Choice of a Wife.

page 479

For a Woman desiring Direction of God, after an Offer of Marriage is made to her.

page 480

For Persons in a Storm at Sea.

page 481

A Thanksgiving for a safe Arrival after a Voyage.

page 482

A Prayer for a Sailor.

page 483

The Pious Soul longing for Heaven.

page 486

An Act of Praise.

page 487

END of the Fourth Volume.