Note 41 — WHITEFIELD ORDAINED.
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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.