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other talents fo well adapted to the intelects 

 of his hearers, made him fo popular that he 

 frequently, efpecially in the two firft 

 years, got from eight thoufand to twenty 

 thoufand hearers in the fields. His inten- 

 tion in thefe travels, was to collect money 

 for an orphans holpital which had been 

 erected in Georgia. He here frequently 

 collected feventy pounds fterling at one fer- 

 raon ; nay, at two fermons which he 

 preached in the year 1740, both on one 

 iunday, at Philadelphia, he got an hundred 

 and fifty pounds. The profelytes of this 

 man, or the above-mentioned new-lights, 

 are at prefent merely a feet of prefbyterians. 

 For though Whitefield was originally a 

 clergyman of the EkgEfb church, yet he 

 deviated by little and little from her 

 doctrines; and on arriving in the year 1744 

 at Bojlon in New England, he difputed with 

 the Prefbyterians about their doctrines, fo 

 much that he almoft entirely embraced 

 them. For Whitefield was no great difpu- 

 tant, and could therefore eafily be led by 

 thefe cunning people, whitherfoever they 

 would have him. This likewife during his 

 latter ltay in America caufed his audience 

 to be lefs numerous than during the firft. 

 The new-lights built firft in the year 1741, 

 a great houfe in the weftern part of the 



town, 



