Revival

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Order of Contents

Articles  3
Books  2


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Articles

1800’s

M’Crie, Thomas – The Revivals at Stewarton and Kirk of Shotts, 1625-1630, HTML, no date or source, eleven paragraphs, probably from his Story of the Scottish Church

Read here of how the Spirit of God has worked in extraordinary ways through the ordinary means of grace and godly ministers.  Revivals and experiential religion have always been thoroughly engrained in the reformed tradition.  Read here of the accounts from dark days just prior to the second reformation in Scotland (1638).

Miller, Samuel

Letters to Presbyterians, on the Present Crisis in the Presbyterian Church in the United States  (1833)  HTML

Letter 9, ‘Revivals of Religion’  151-74
Letter 10, ‘Revivals of Religion’  174-92

Letter 4, ‘From Samuel Miller to William B. Sprague’  in William B. Sprague, Lectures on Revivals of Religion  (Webster, 1832), Appendix, pp. 22-44


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Books

1700’s

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1800’s

Alexander, Archibald

The Log College  Buy  (1851)  298 pp.

A rich history of early presbyterian ministers in 1700′s America and the revivals that occurred in their time.  The “Log College” was the predecessor school to what would culminate in the opening of the first presbyterian seminary in America at Princeton in 1812.

Thoughts on Religious Experience  Buy  (1844)  594 pp.

Required reading.  A classic of experiential religion.  This was the first book of its type in America.  Alexander defines true religious experience as the objective truths of God’s Word stamped on the soul, with all the effects that follow.

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