[32] Whitefield's brother James.
[33] The Rev. Sampson Harris, thirty-five years vicar of the parish, and who died in 1763.
[34] Gabriel Harris.
[35] Methodist Magazine, 1798, p. 440.
[36] As heretofore, the passages which Whitefield omitted in the edition of 1756 are enclosed in brackets.
[37] "Immediately upon my coming down."—Edit. 1756.
[38] "More."—Ibid.
[39] "A relation, then in one of the almshouses."—Ibid.
[40] "Thereby helped to."—Edit. 1756.
[41] What is meant by this? According to Whitefield's own statement, he had, some time before, at Oxford, been regenerated by the grace of the Holy Ghost,—a blessing which is always connected with justification, or the forgiveness of sins. Both are received at the same moment, and both by the simple exercise of faith, or trust in Christ. The only interpretation to be given to what Whitefield here relates is, that he now, at Gloucester, was made more thoroughly to understand the great Scripture doctrine of justification by faith only. The books from which he obtained this added light are immediately specified.