id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7842 George Whitefield - Wikipedia .html text/html 8619 1039 71 Whitefield accepted the Church of England's doctrine of predestination and disagreed with the Wesley brothers' Arminian views on the doctrine of the atonement.[11] As a result, Whitefield did what his friends hoped he would not do—hand over the entire ministry to John Wesley.[12] Whitefield formed and was the president of the first Methodist conference, but he soon relinquished the position to concentrate on evangelical work.[13] 19th-century biographies generally refer to his earlier work, A Short Account of God's Dealings with the Reverend George Whitefield (1740), which covered his life up to his ordination. Rogal, Samuel J (1997), "Toward a Mere Civil Friendship: Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield", Methodist History, 35 (4): 233–43, hdl:10516/6134, ISSN 0026-1238. Men of One Book: A Comparison of Two Methodist Preachers, John Wesley and George Whitefield. George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth-Century Revival. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7842.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7842.txt