What Whitefield did, Wesley did? We have biblical truth in front of us. I have really no idea what they preached but what I have read of them. without being offensive what does it matter? This is about us.

Scripture says this, when the initial work of the Spirit begans in a man, he causes the man to own his sin, he is convinced he is a sinner, not as some abstract idea learned in a book... he takes the posture of one who accepts what God says of him. John 16:6,7 He feels it, as Isaiah did, "woe is me, I am undone," as the man hitting himself in the chest, on the temple grounds, crying out "Oh God be propitious to me, the sinner." Luke 18:13. This personal loathing (not in degree) but in fact resides in all who are regenerate, and it stays with them until they are glorified. The great Paul had it, "Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death." He felt the awful weight of his personal sin against God. Holy Spirit conviction makes one agree honesly from top to botton he is bruises, wounds, putrifying sores, as Isa l:6] From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

When God in mercy brings one to this place he is not far from the Kingdom of God, as the Lord Jesus Christ, he wants, hungers for, goes after, and to him "Christ is precious" as he believes with his heart upon the Lord.