Whitefield's Hierarchy

Whitefield's words bely a stark sense of doom along with a redemptive quality, a duality that reinforces his idea of hierarchy among his followers. It strikes me as odd that he so delineates the difference between the Elect and the damned. His antagonistic stance against his opposition and hypocrites indicates that there is certainly one way to go about finding redemption. (This too is underscored by his dislike for "false preachers".) This redemption, too, shows a contrast between the saved and the damned with his description of the physical redemption of the body along with the soul; it seems to be the tangible nugget with which to catch the audience's ear and anchor the sermon into reality. I felt reading these that there was something particularly sinister about his preaching to masses and to the general people but still focusing on the idea of an Elect and dividing the devout from the false. I'm interested in further understanding the difference between his ideas of hierarchy (considering he uses a ladder formation as his guide) against Wesley's lack of hierarchy. It already suggests a different understanding of sanctification in that Wesley considered it a constant action and work of the soul rather than something that produces justification, as Whitefield. His rhetoric creates a sense of an imminent coming, which is not a sense I necessarily received from Wesley's sermons, and I think I would like to further compare the underlying tensions between the two preachers' words.