Although a considerable number of scattered records accompanied what Jonathan Edwards called the ‘Revival of Religion in New England in 1740’ it was not until 1841 that Joseph Tracy thoroughly sifted these original sources and became its first historian. He aimed to provide ‘a work which should furnish the means of suitably appreciating both the good and the evil of that period of religious history.’ ‘His design,’ as C. H.
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1. INTRODUCTORY —Previous State of Religious Opinions and Practices —Decline of Piety —Preaching of Edwards —‘Surprising Conversions’ at Northampton, and in other Places
2. REVIVALS OF 1739, 1740; at Newark, Harvard, Northampton, New Londonderry, and New Brunswick — Remarks on the Presbyterianism of that Age
3. WHITEFIELD IN EARLY LIFE —His Birth, Education, and Religious Experience —His Success as a Preacher — His first Visit to Georgia —His Return to England, Opposition and Success —Controversy with the Bishop of London —His Intercourse with Watts and Doddridge —His Return to America
4. WHITEFIELD’S LABORS —His Preaching and Success at Philadelphia, at New York, and in the Middle and Southern Colonies
5. PARTIES IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —Different Views of Regeneration, and Controversies growing out of them —Acts of the Synod in 1728, 1737, 1738, and 1739 —Meeting of the Synod in 1740 —Tennent’s Nottingham Sermon —Meeting of the Synod in 1741 —The ‘Great Schism’
6. WHITEFIELD AT THE SOUTH —Scenes at the Orphan House —Visit to Charleston —Ecclesiastical Prosecution —Conversions at and around Charleston —Schools for Negroes —The Bryans
7. WHITEFIELD’S FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND
8. WHITEFIELD IN NEW YORK, AND AT THE SOUTH
9. THE REVIVAL IN BOSTON —The Period from Whitefield’s Departure to the Arrival of Davenport; including the Labors of Gilbert Tennent
10. THE REVIVAL IN NEW ENGLAND —Natick, Wrentham, and Bridgewater —Exhorters and Raptures in Bridgewater
11. THE REVIVAL IN NEW ENGLAND —Lyme, and other Places in that part of Connecticut —The ‘Needful Caution in a Critical Day ’—Pastors Itinerating
12. THE REVIVAL IN NEW ENGLAND —Plymouth, Sutton, Taunton, Middleborough, Halifax, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Reading, Newcastle, Westerly, Northampton
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 12 —Extracts from the Private Journal of the Rev Eleazer Wheelock —Extracts from the Private Journal of the Rev Ebenezer Parkman, of Westborough, Mass
13. EDWARDS —The Revival at Enfield —Outcries, Faintings, and Convulsions
14. DAVENPORT — His Rise, Progress, Excesses, Recovery, and ‘Retractations’—His Posthumous Influence The Eleventh Congregational Church in Boston —Note, on the Catastrophe of Hugh Bryan
15. WHITEFIELD IN ENGLAND —His Breach with Wesley —The Revival in Scotland
16. THE REVIVAL IN NEW ENGLAND —Conventions and Testimonies
17. OPPOSITION TO THE REVIVAL IN CONNECTICUT —Pains and Penalties —The Separatists
18. THE CONTROVERSY IN MASSACHUSETTS —Whitefield’ Second Visit to New England —His subsequent Labors and Death
19. THE REVIVAL CONTINUED AT THE SOUTH —The Presbyterian Synods —The Rise of Presbyterianism in Virginia —Whitefield’s Labors in the Southern Colonies —The Healing of the ‘Great Schism’
