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I think it's very unfortunate, misleading, and unfair that a picture of John Wesley appears on the screen when the gentleman is saying that many preachers of the time believed that one didn't even need to be saved to be a preacher. Anyone who has studied Wesley knows that he neither had a works-based gospel, nor did he minimize the importance of personal salvation. In fact, the opposite is true of Wesley. Again, it is profoundly unfortunate that Wesley is disrespected in this otherwise good video.
Jonathan Edwards credited Dutch Reformed Pastor Theodore Frelinghuysen with beginning the Great Awakening in New Jersey. Reverend Edwards credited Frelinghuysen upon his discussion with Gilbert Tennent:
"But this shower of Divine blessing has been yet more extensive. There was no small degree of it in some part of the Jerseys, as I was informed when I was at New York, (in a long journey I took at that time of the year for my health) by some people of the Jerseys, whom I saw, especially the Reverend WIlliam Tennent, a minister, who seemed to have such things much at heart, told me of a very great awakening of many in a place called the Mountains [sic.], under the ministry of one Mr. Cross; and of a very considerable revival of religion in another place under the ministry of his brother, Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent; and also at another place, under the ministry of a very pious young gentleman, a Dutch minister, who name as i remember was Freelinghouse [sic]."
I think it's very unfortunate, misleading, and unfair that a picture of John Wesley appears on the screen when the gentleman is saying that many preachers of the time believed that one didn't even need to be saved to be a preacher. Anyone who has studied Wesley knows that he neither had a works-based gospel, nor did he minimize the importance of personal salvation. In fact, the opposite is true of Wesley. Again, it is profoundly unfortunate that Wesley is disrespected in this otherwise good video.
Jonathan Edwards credited Dutch Reformed Pastor Theodore Frelinghuysen with beginning the Great Awakening in New Jersey. Reverend Edwards credited Frelinghuysen upon his discussion with Gilbert Tennent:
"But this shower of Divine blessing has been yet more extensive. There was no small degree of it in some part of the Jerseys, as I was informed when I was at New York, (in a long journey I took at that time of the year for my health) by some people of the Jerseys, whom I saw, especially the Reverend WIlliam Tennent, a minister, who seemed to have such things much at heart, told me of a very great awakening of many in a place called the Mountains [sic.], under the ministry of one Mr. Cross; and of a very considerable revival of religion in another place under the ministry of his brother, Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent; and also at another place, under the ministry of a very pious young gentleman, a Dutch minister, who name as i remember was Freelinghouse [sic]."
Where are today’s George Whitefields?
I don't understand the scull tombstone.