great awakening written doc 1 ©2007 MindSparks, a division of Social Studies School Service
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US History [1]
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[Many in the revivals], were able to give,
what appeared to us, a rational account
of what so affected their minds—a quick
sense of guilt, misery, and danger. And
they would often mention passages in the
sermons they heard, or particular texts
of Scripture, which were set home upon
them with such a powerful impression.
And as to such whose joys have carried
them into transports and ecstasies, they
in like manner have accounted for them,
from a lively sense of the danger they
hoped they were freed from, and the
happiness they were now possessed of
… and particularly of the excellencies and
loveliness of Jesus Christ, and such sweet
tastes of redeeming love, as they never
had before.
With respect to the numbers of those
who have been under the impressions