Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

It began with parishioners who refused to pray until they had experienced conversion, then renounced their infant baptisms, and, finally, asserted that “marriage is an Institution of God and I Never was married in faith.”