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

Nearly 750 people from more than 125 towns across New England, including three royal governors, 146 Congregational ministers, and dozens of notable merchants, magistrates, and militia officers, subscribed to Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England, Charles Chauncy’s ponderous antidote to the “Great disorders and irregularities” that the outspoken Boston revival opposer believed were flourishing everywhere.