Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine--"The Associate Presbytery"--The Sins of Scotland--The Erskines and the Methodists--Whitefield and the Erskines--Rupture with the Associate Presbytery--"A Warning," by Rev. Adam Gibb--"Act of the Associate Presbytery"-- Aristocratic Friends--Letter to David Erskine--Tour in Scotland--Earl of Leven and Melville--Collections in Scotland-- Strange Scene--Anecdotes--Religious Results in Scotland. 497-529 SEVEN MONTHS IN ENGLAND. NOVEMBER 1741 TO JUNE, 1742. Whitefield's Marriage--His Wife--Christian Perfection--Good News from America--Racy Letter--The Welsh Evangelists--The Orphan House--Wesley's Publications--Calvinistic Controversy--Success-- Whitefield's Journals and Letters--Letter to Lady Mary Hamilton--Desire for Christian Union--Scenes in Moorfields-- Charles Square, Hoxton--Rev. John Meriton--Man of one Busine 530-561 THE LIFE OF THE REV. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, B.A. _WHITEFIELD'S BOYHOOD._ 1714 to 1732. George Whitefield was born in the Bell Inn, Gloucester, on the 16th day of December (O.S.), 1714. His genealogy, as given by his first biographer, Dr. Gillies, is brief, but not without interest:-- "The Rev. Mr. Samuel Whitefield, great-grandfather of George, was born at Wantage, and was rector of North Ledyard,[1] in Wiltshire. He removed afterwards to Rockhampton, in Gloucestershire. He had five daughters--two of whom were married to clergymen, Mr. Perkins and Mr. Lovingham; and two sons--Samuel, who succeeded his father in the cure of Rockhampton, and died without issue; and Andrew, who was a private gentleman, and lived retired upon his estate. Andrew had fourteen children, of whom Thomas was the eldest. [1] There is no North Ledyard in Wilts. Is Liddiard meant? "Thomas was first bred to the employment of a wine-merchant in Bristol, but afterwards kept the Bell Inn, in the city of Gloucester. In Bristol he married Elizabeth Edwards, who was related to the Blackwells and the Dimours of that city; by whom he had six sons and one daughter. "Elizabeth, the daughter, was twice reputably married at Bristol. John lies interred with the family in St. Mary de Crypt Church, in Gloucester. Joseph died an infant. Andrew settled in trade at Bristol, and died in the twenty-eighth year of his age. James was captain of a ship, and died suddenly at Bath. George was the youngest of the family, and, at his death, left two surviving brothers, Thomas and Richard. "The father died in December, 1716, when George was only two years old. The mother continued a widow seven years, and was then married to Mr. Longden, an ironmonger in Gloucester, by whom she had no issue. She died in December, 1751, in the seventy-first year of her age."