The Great Awakening Quotes

“were banished and chased away, except a few, as bats before the light of the sun. Some few of the hearers present, who were mostly communicants, returned home under strong convictions;” and their conversation was one of the greatest means of spreading the concern through the town. At a private meeting at his own house one evening in November, Mr Cotton read Mr Edwards’ ”
― Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the time of Edwards and Whitefield

“morning, and the season very difficult, by reason of the snow; yet there was a large and crowded assembly. They”
― Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the time of Edwards and Whitefield

“Thus religion lay as it were dying, and ready to expire its last breath of life in this part of the visible church: and it was in the spring of 1740, when the God of salvation was pleased to visit us with the blessed effusions of his Holy Spirit in an eminent manner.”
― Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the time of Edwards and Whitefield