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God's Wonderful Working
The first Great Awakening in New England & the Middle Colonies
posted 7/01/1989 12:00AM
Decades before the Revolution that gave birth to the United States, a different kind of revolution born of God’s Spirit swept the land.
New England
When Rev. Solomon Stoddard died in 1729 at 86 years, his grandson, Jonathan Edwards, who had been his assistant for two years, became pastor of the Congregational Church of Northampton, Massachusetts. His congregation could not have guessed that one day their tall, mild new minister would be called one of the best minds America has ever produced, and her greatest Christian thinker. He also would prepare the soil for a great spiritual harvest in New England in their day.
Jonathan Edwards & God’s Surprising Work
In 1734, Rev. Edwards began to stress evangelism from his Northampton pulpit with a series of sermons on Justification by Faith. No immediate effects became apparent, but after some time, in December 1734 “The Spirit of God began extraordinarily to set in and wonderfully to work among us…
Soon the town was enveloped in spiritual concern. ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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