THIS MESSAGE IS THE LETTER GEORGE WHITEFIELD WROTE TO HIS DEAR FRIEND JOHN WESLEY WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE FOR IN TODAYS WORLD, IF GEORGE WHITEFIELD WAS AN ICONIC PREACHER OF THE 1900’s IT WOULD BE LIKE GEORGE WHITEFIELD DISMANTLING THE ICONIC FASTFOOD FREEWILL EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM, THE RELIGIOUS ICON OF 1900’S IN AMERICA.

SO WHO IS AT FAULT HERE IN AMERICA BUT THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL EVANGELISTS WHO NEVER STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE TO DISMANTLE THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE OF BILLY GRAHAM WHICH IS EASILY PROVED BY SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS TO BE A DOCTRINE IS BUILT UPON A FOUNDATION OF SAND AND THUS DECEITFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE TO AMERICA.

WHITEFIELD DECLARES TO WESLEY:

“Dear Sir,

for Jesus Christ's sake,

consider how you dishonour God by denying election.

You plainly make

salvation depend not on God's free grace,

but

on man's free-will.

And if thus, it is more than probable,

Jesus Christ would not have had the satisfaction of seeing the fruit of his death in the eternal salvation of one soul.

Our preaching would then be vain, and all invitations for people to believe in him would also be in vain.

But, blessed be God,

our Lord knew for whom he died.

There was an eternal compact between the Father and the Son.

A certain number

was then given him as the purchase and reward of his obedience and death.

For these he prayed (Jn. 17:9), and not for the world.

For these elect ones,

and these only,

he is now interceding,

and with their salvation he will be fully satisfied.

I purposely omit making any further particular remarks on the several last pages of your sermon. Indeed had not your name,

dear Sir, been prefixed to the sermon,

I could not have been so uncharitable as to think you were the author of such sophistry.

You beg the question, in saying that God has declared, (notwithstanding you own, I suppose, some will be damned)

that he will save all— i.e., every individual person.

You take it for granted (for solid proof you have none) that God is unjust,

if he passes by any, and then you exclaim against the "horrible decree":

and yet, as I before hinted,

in holding the doctrine of original sin,

you profess to believe that he might justly have passed by all.

Dear, dear Sir, O be not offended!

For Christ's sake be not rash!

Give yourself to reading. Study the covenant of grace. Down with your carnal reasoning.

Be a little child;

and then, instead of pawning your salvation, as you have done in a late hymn book, if the doctrine of universal redemption be not true;

instead of talking of sinless perfection, as you have done in the preface to that hymn book, and making man's salvation

to depend on his own free will,

as you have in this sermon; you

will compose a hymn in praise

of sovereign distinguishing love.

You will caution believers against striving to work a perfection out of their own hearts, and print another sermon the reverse of this, and entitle it "Free Grace Indeed."

Free, not because free to all;

but free, because God may withhold or give it to whom and when he pleases.

Till you do this, I must doubt whether or not you know yourself. In the meanwhile, I cannot but blame you for censuring the clergy of our church for not keeping to their articles, when you yourself by your principles, positively deny the 9th, 10th and 17th.

Dear Sir, these things ought not so to be. God knows my heart, as I told you before, so I declare again, nothing but a single regard to the honour of Christ has forced this letter from me. I love and honour you for his sake; and when I come to judgment, will thank you before men.