THE

WORKS

OF THE REVEREND

GEORGE WHITEFIELD, M. A.
Late of PEMBROKE-COLLEGE, OXFORD,

And Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. the Countess of HUNTINGDON.

CONTAINING

All his SERMONS and TRACTS
Which have been already published :

WITH

A SELECT COLLECTION of LETTERS,
Written to his moft intimate Friends, and Perfons of Diftinction, in
England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from the Year 1734, to
1770, including the whole Period of his Ministry.

ALSO

Some other PIECES on IMPORTANT SUBJECTS,
never before printed; prepared by Himself for the Prefs.

To which is prefixed,

An ACCOUNT of his

LIFE,

Compiled from his Original PAPERS and LETTERS,

VOL. V.

NEW-YOR

LONDON:

Printed for EDWARD and CHARLES DILLY, in the Poultry;
and Meffrs. KINCAID and CREECH, at Edinburgh.

MDCCLXXII.

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CONTENTS *.

SE

ERMON I. The Seed of the Woman, and the Seed
of the Serpent.

GEN. iii. 5. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,

and between thy feed and her feed; it shall bruife thy head, and

thou shalt bruife his heel.
Page 3

SERM. II. Walking with God.

GEN. v. 24. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for

God took him.

P. 21

SERM. III. Abraham's offering up his Son Ifaac.

GEN. xxii. 12. And he faid,

neither do thou any thing unto

fearest God, feeing thou haft

fon from me.

Lay not thine hand upon the lad,

him; for now I know that thou

not withheld thy fan, thine only

P. 38

SERM. IV. The great Duty of Family-Religion.

JOSHUA XXIV. 15. As for me and my house, we will ferve the

Lord.
p. 52

SERM. V. Chrift the beft Husband: or, an earnest Invita-

tion to Young Women to come and fee Chrift. Preached

to a Society of Young Women, in Fetter-Lane.

*The Seamo

Manufcripts.

VOL. V.

:

PSALM xlv. 10, 11. Hearken, O daughter, and confider, and

incline thine ear: forget also thine own people, and thy father's

houfe: fo fall the King greatly defire thy beauty; for he is thy

Lord, and worship thou him.

p. 65

SERM. VI. Britain's Mercies, and Britain's Duty. Preached

at Philadelphia, on Sunday, August 24, 1746. and occa-

fioned by the Suppreffion of the late unnatural Rebellion.

PSALM CV. 45. That they might obferve his fatutes and keep

his laws.

P. 79

marked with a *, are now first published from the Author's own

SERM.