George Whitefield

[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