Whitefield was as happy as a man could be outside of heaven. Scougal’s influence had leavened his thought: “Some place religion in being of this or that communion; more in morality; most in a round of doctrine; and few, very few, acknowledge it to be, what it really is, a thorough inward change of nature, a divine life, a participation of Jesus Christ, and union of the soul with God.”1 His first visit to America was in 1738, and on his return to England in December he found all the churches, with
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