ISBN - 0 85234 400 7

At the heart of the gospel is what Martin Luther once called 'the wonderful exchange': Christ's gift to his flawless righteousness to all who believe in him and his receiving the punishment due to all of their sins. It was this message that gave the Reformation its impetus and power. And it was this message that lay at the centre of the eighteenth-century revival, that paradigm of spiritual awakening which transformed English-speaking society on both sides of the Atlantic.
     George Whitefield, the leading evangelist in this awakening, took especial delight in his proclamation of this amazing message and this sermon is an excellent example of that delight. But it is a challenge for the present. For ours is a day when evangelicals are losing their grip on this vital doctrine. They are increasingly forgetful of the fact that the doctrine of imputed righteousness is, as Whitefield notes, that truth 'by which the church stands or falls'.
     Here, the, is instruction about the heart of the gospel and a challenge to evangelicals to hold fast to their biblical heritage.

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