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George Whitefield

British clergyman
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George Whitefield (born December 27 [December 16, Old Style], 1714, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England—died September 30, 1770, Newburyport, Massachusetts [U.S.]) was a Church of England evangelist who, by his popular preaching, stimulated the 18th-century Protestant revival throughout Britain and in the British American colonies. In his school and college days Whitefield experienced a strong religious awakening that he called a “new birth.” At Oxford he became an intimate of the Methodists John and Charles Wesley, and...

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