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 half of the sermons that Bowles recorded in his commonplace book emphasized the immediacy of hell, the urgency of conversion in a time of great awakenings, and the dangers of resting secure in routine religious duties.