Memoirs of Rev George Whitefield Author:John Gillies Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (especially when his body was weak, and his spirits low) very trying: but still he was inwardly supported. April 21, he again went to Oxford: and, after stayi... more »ng a few- days with the Methodists there, came to London, where ha attempted to preach in Islington church, the incumbent, Mr. Storehouse, being a friend to the Methodists; but, in the midst of the prayers, the church warden came and demanded his license, and otherwise he forbid his preaching in that pulpit. lie rniht, perhaps, have insisted on his right to preach, yet for peace's sake he declined; and, after the communion servico was over, he preached in the church yard. Opportunities of preaching in a more regular way being now denied him, and his preaching in the fields being attended with a remarkable blessing, he judged it his duty to go on in this practice. and ventured the following Sunday into Moorficlds. 1'ublic notice having been given, and the thing being new and singular, upon coming out of the coach, he found an incredible number of people assembled. Many had told him that lie should never come again out of that place alive. He went in- however, between two of his friends; who, by the pressure of the crowd, were soon parted entirely from him, and were obliged to leave him to the mercy of the rabble. But these, iustead of hurting him, formed a lane for him, and carried him along to the middle of the fields, (where a table had been placed, which was broken in pieces by the crowd,) and afterwards lack again to the wall that then parted the upper and lower Moorfields ; from whence he preached without molestation, to an exceeding great multitude in the lower fields. Finding such encouragement, he went that evening to Kennington common, a large open place, almost three miles distant from London, where he preached...« less