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

most lay men and women talked and wrote about the Holy Spirit as a comforting external presence that labored to awaken sinners to their Christian duties and could be grieved away by ignoring private devotional routines and public religious obligations.