Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: Rev^d.). * * * * * NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION, UNABRIDGED, IN THREE VOLUMES. _Price 7s. 6d. each volume._ _ELEGANTLY BOUND IN CLOTH, WITH ENGRAVED PORTRAITS._ THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, M.A. _BY THE REV. L. TYERMAN._ "It deserves the praise, not only of being the fullest biography of Wesley, but also of being eminently painstaking, veracious, and trustworthy."--_The Edinburgh Review._ "Mr. Tyerman's volumes constitute by far the most exhaustive, as they are certainly the bulkiest, and from many points of view the most interesting, of the lives of Wesley. Mr. Tyerman's judgment is usually characterised by great clearness and good sense; his pen seems to be always governed by the desire to be fair and impartial, and for the first time our libraries receive a full and comprehensive memoir of the great religious teacher and ecclesiastical statesman."--_The British Quarterly Review._ "The most copious account of the great evangelist's life and labours, and the noblest literary tribute to his memory, which has yet been offered to the world."--_Methodist Recorder._ "The narratives of travel through England, Scotland, and Ireland, the records of evangelistic labour, the gradual building up of Wesleyanism as a system, form a history of great interest, and allure the reader on from chapter to chapter, with all the attraction of a romance. We cannot doubt that Mr. Tyerman's work, so rich and abundant in materials, will henceforth be regarded as the standard life of Wesley."--_The Evangelical Magazine._ "We are thankful for a new and carefully revised edition of this very laborious, interesting, and important work, the value of which is great and obvious. The portraits as now rendered, are very striking and self-evidencing, and of real historical value."--_Wesleyan Methodist Magazine._ "This is the most truthful, full, accurate, and painstaking of all the lives of Wesley."--_The Methodist._ LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. [Illustration: REV^D. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, B.A. AGED 24 Engraved by J Cochran] THE LIFE OF THE REV. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, B.A., OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD. BY REV. L. TYERMAN, AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE REV. SAMUEL WESLEY, M.A., RECTOR OF EPWORTH;" "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, M.A.;" AND "THE OXFORD METHODISTS." _IN TWO VOLUMES._ VOL I. London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. MDCCCLXXVI. Hazell Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury. PREFACE.