[Jerry_M]

Not so sure we can "let him off the hook". He never once, to my knowledge, conceded that his attacks on Whitfield were wrong. He might have said flowery words at his funeral, but that is just a bit hypocritical when he condemned him during his life.

[xzins]

his attacks on Whitfield

Do you consider this sermon an "attack on Whitfield?" If not, if it is a general evaluation of the tulip doctrine, then what were his specific attacks on Whitfield?

[Ward Smythe]

Before he died the "threefold cord not quickly broken" (Whitefield, plus John and Charles Wesley) was reknit. He and the Wesleys had agonized and grown apart over Whitefield’s adherence to the doctrine of predestination. When they were joyfully reconciled he wrote in his diary, "Prejudices, jealousies and suspicion make the soul miserable."

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Whitefield and the Wesleys apparently got over it. Too bad others can't.