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

Parsons once said that he had the authority to kill or keep alive whomever he chose. “I will Increase your Damnation in hell,” Higgins heard him exclaim. “I Expect to be a Witness against the Worst of you in the Day of Judgment.”