The Accidental Revolutionary: George Whitefield and the Creation of America

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199 Index A Letter to the People of Pennsylvania , 146 Adams, John, 111, 147, 189 Adams, Samuel, 152, 157–58, 161, 178–79 American Bishop, 123, 142, 147–48, 151–52, 162–63, 165, 168, 173 American Revolution, 111, 148, 173, 183, 185, 188–89 Angelo, Henry, 27–28 Anglican Weekly Miscellany, 151 Anglican, arbitrary power, 102, 143; British political influence, 143; conflict with Methodists, 76–79; episcopacy in America, 173; power of liturgy, 77; support of monarchy, 36, 69, 74 Antirevivalists, 87 arbitrary power, 102, 107, 113–14, 127–28, 131, 137, 143, 145–46, 152, 154, 156–57, 166, 170, 174–75, 178, 188–90 Arminianism, 32–33, 36–37, 173 Bellamy, Joseph, 181–82, 185 Bethesda, college, 166; orphanage, 87, 89, 91, 106, 124, 127, 134, 138, 165–66, 170 Boston Evening-Post, 83, 85–88 Boston Gazette, 86, 113, 115, 119, 163 Calvin, John, 32 Calvinism, 32–37, 45, 48, 54, 98, 101, 173 Catholicism, 17, 31, 37, 69, 74, 76–78, 84, 96, 99–100, 102, 107, 109–10, 112–15, 118–19, 127, 131–32, 137, 146, 148, 162–63, 165, 178–80 Chauncy, Charles, x, 51, 55, 60, 64–66, 85, 87–91, 93, 96–98, 101, 107, 162, 175 Civil millennialism, 117–19, 127, 132, 148, 180–81 Clap, Thomas, 88–89, 96, 156 Cleaveland, Ebenezer, 176 Cole, Nathan, 42–43, 64 commercialism, 68 Common Sense, 111, 184 Congregationalism, 89 Convention of New England Ministers , 97–99, 120 conversion experience, 2, 5–9, 13, 17, 20, 23–24, 28, 32–38, 43–44, 46–50, 67, 69, 72, 87, 93, 98, 122–23, 143, 149, 169, 175–76, 191, 192 200 Index Countess of Huntingdon, 121–23, 136–37 Curse of Meroz, 130–31, 181–82, 185, 187, 190 Cushing, Thomas, 157–58 Davenport, James, 52, 60, 62, 65–66, 83, 85, 120 Davies, Samuel, 124, 130 Declaration of Independence, 155, 186 Dickinson, John, 169–70 Dissenters, 22, 78, 135 Drayton, William Henry, 184 Edward, Charles, 120, 148–49, 152, 154–57, 160, 166, 168 Edwards, Jonathan, 33–38, 52, 55, 62, 63, 66, 71, 89, 101, 117, 120, 130, 188 Edwards, Sarah, 51 English Civil War, 77 Enlightenment, 11, 19, 114, 188 enthusiasm, 55, 59, 61, 65–66, 71, 84–85, 88–89, 91, 98–101, 119, 143, 176 Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against, 66 Erskine, Ralph, 73 Finley, Samuel, 124, 130 Foote, Samuel, 2, 27–28, 137 Franklin, Benjamin, 29–30, 43, 47, 49, 132–34, 146, 158, 160–62, 186 Frelinghuysen, Theodorus, 35, 52 French and Indian War, 102, 118, 128, 144, 147, 180 Galloway, Joseph, 146, 158–60, 162 Garden, Alexander, 18, 53, 59–60, 66, 93 Garrick, David, 27 George II, 78–82, 101, 105–9, 111–12, 118, 131–32 George III, 80, 118, 141–42, 146– 48, 152, 155, 166, 169, 176–77 Great Awakening, 28, 62–63, 67, 117, 155, 170, 183, 188 Grenville, George, 147–48, 152, 159 Grenville Program, 148, 153, 159, 162 Harris, Howell, 22, 75, 115 Harvard University, 62, 87, 90–92, 156, 183 Haven, Samuel, 153 Henry, Patrick, 24, 27, 177 Holy Club, 5, 7, 9, 13, 53, 167 Hopkins, Stephen, 155–56, 160 Hume, David, 24 Jacobites, 81, 100, 105–8, 111, 123, 162 James, Elizabeth, 13, 75, 81, 83, 85–86, 121 Jefferson, Thomas, 135, 187–88 Journals, 10–11, 41, 58, 71–72, 121 Knox, John, 111 Langdon, Samuel, 153–54 Locke, John, 34, 54, 60, 188, 195 Louisburg, 128 Mayhew, Jonathan, 111, 118, 144–45, 151, 162, 175 Methodism, 18, 85, 101, 142, 167, 195 Morris, Samuel, 124 natural reason, 45, 167, 188 New Birth, 8–10, 23, 29, 31, 36–39, 41–44, 46–53, 57–58, 62, 66–67, 72, 75, 82, 93, 97–98, 201 Index 102, 114, 119, 124, 133, 137, 156, 159, 178, 190–92 New Lights, 35–36, 53, 57, 61, 63, 66–70, 84, 88, 94, 97, 99, 143, 156, 158, 160, 181, 184–85 Old Lights, 36, 52–53, 56–59, 62–63, 88, 92–100, 118–19, 121, 143, 145 Oliver, Peter, 181 Otis, James, 181 Oxford University, 3–8, 167, 194, 196–98 Paine, Thomas, 111, 184, 198 Parsons, Jonathan, 171 passive obedience, 110–11 popular Christianity, 183, 185 preach and return 23 Presbyterians, 73, 107, 111, 120, 128, 159, 181, 186 Prince, 90, 95 print and preach, 23 Public relations, 16...