George Whitefield on the Lord's Supper
No position located on this map
Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.
THE POSITION
No position located. Three sermons were searched for it — The Great Duty of Family Religion, The Almost Christian, and Marks of a True Conversion — and the only mention is incidental: receiving "the sacrament once or twice a year" appears among the outward marks the world mistakes for true Christianity. Nothing read addresses the presence of Christ in the Supper. His journals, which record him administering it, were not read.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONThirteen of the fourteen positions carry a verbatim quotation. The Lord's Supper carries none because none was found: the three sermons searched for it mention the sacrament only in passing, as something nominal Christians rest on. The quotations from the 1740 letter to Wesley are read in a modernized transcription, not the 1741 printing, and say so where they appear.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Anglican priest and field preacher of the Evangelical Revival and the First Great Awakening, who crossed the Atlantic seven times and died on his last American tour. Wesley's Oxford companion and, from his 1740 letter answering Free Grace, his public opponent on election — the Calvinist half of the Methodist split, set here beside Wesley and Edwards. This entry rests on that letter and eleven of the sermons printed in the standard selected editions.
Cite this page
"George Whitefield on the Lord's Supper", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/whitefield/lords-supper (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/whitefield/lords-supper).