A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship
Overview
George Whitefield wrote: “all the acts and exercises of devotion are sweet and delightful, yet we never resemble the blessed worshippers above more than when we are joining together in public devotions.” It was out of this desire to lead people into worship that Whitefield published this collection of hymns. Rich in theology and imagery, these hymns are ideal for personal worship and devotion.
- Title: A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship
- Author: George Whitefield
- Edition: Seventh Edition
- Publisher: William Strahan
- Print Publication Date: 1758
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Hymns, English
- Resource ID: LLS:CLLCTNHYMNWRSHP
- Resource Type: text.monograph.hymnal
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-08-19T19:57:41Z
George Whitefield (1714–1770) was one of the founders of Methodism and influential in the spread of the Great Awakening in both Britain and the British North American colonies. He believed in preaching his sermons without notes in order to allow room for the Holy Spirit to guide his speaking, and was known for his theatrical delivery.
Whitefield studied at Oxford, where he met Charles and John Wesley. The Wesley brothers were a part of what was referred to as the “Holy Club” on campus, which Whitefield joined and by which he was quite influenced, later becoming the president. In 1738, he came to America for the first of seven trips he would make across the ocean. During this first trip, he founded the orphanage Bethseda just outside of Savannah, Georgia.
Throughout his life, he toured all over New England, England, Scotland, and Wales, preaching to crowds of up to tens of thousands at a time, greatly influencing the Great Awakening and the early Methodist Church.
Selected Sermons of George Whitefield contains over 50 of Whitefield’s sermons on a variety of topics, which are still edifying to read and study today, and you can find hundreds of his letters and journal entries in The Works of George Whitefield (13 vols.).