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

the Scottish gentleman found it strange that so many New Englanders felt emboldened to hold forth on “justification, sanctification, adoption, regeneration, repentance, free grace, reprobation, original sin, and a thousand other such pritty, chimerical knick knacks as they had done nothing but studied divinity all their life time and perused all the lumber of the scholastic divines.”