A History of the Episcopal Church (Third Revised Edition). Robert W. Prichard

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the Baptist Church would grow rapidly and by the nineteenth century become larger in size than either the Congregational or the Presbyterian Church.

      Whitefield’s third (1744–47) and fourth (1751–52) visits to the colonies did little to alter this basic pattern: Most members of the Church of England opposed the Awakening or were indifferent to it. Baptists favored it and Presbyterians and Congregationalists divided into competing factions.

      In the years between Whitefield’s fifth (May 1754-March 1755) and sixth visits (August 1763-June 1765), attitudes began to change, however. While many remained skeptical about Whitefield and his methods, a significant number in the colonial Church of England

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