[239] " July 25.
[240] Date, July 31.
[241] " August 3.
[242] Whitefield's Journal.
[243] A note of explanation, however, is necessary here. The first edition of Whitefield's sermon on Genesis iii. 15, is widely different from his sermon on the same text, published in his collected works in 1772. In the former, the doctrines of election and of sinless perfection are not mentioned. In fact, there is scarcely any allusion to these doctrines in any of the sermons preached by Whitefield prior to his second visit to America.
[244] Whitefield's Journal, June 9, 1739.
[245] "Life of Sir Richard Hill," p. 171.
[246] C. Wesley's Journal, i., p. 159.
[247] Query: Did Warburton suggest to Bishop Lavington the idea of writing "The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared"? Lavington's work began to be published in 1749.
[248] Nichols' "Illustrations of Literature," vol. ii., pp. 96, 110.