by storm during the 1730’s and 1740’s. The primary cause of these revivals were

changes in economics, political transformations, and Enlightenment rationalism.

Implementations of such things like the “half-way covenant,” allowed people to take

part in church affairs without actually having a salvation experience, thus, rebellion in

the church became very immanent. Men and women alike no longer felt very strongly

of a need for conversion. The supporters of the Awakening pointed to the apparent

degeneration of Puritan values to explain the need for revival (The Great Awakening,

pgs. 1-9). John Whiting of Hartford expressed the sentiment and the need for revival

in an election sermon of 1686, saying:

Is there not too visible and general a declension; are we not turned (and that

quickly too) out of the way wherein our fathers walked?…A rain of

righteousness and soaking showers of converting, sanctifying grace sent from

heaven will do the business for us, and indeed, nothing else.

In New England, revival started with the fiery preaching of Jonathan Edwards. Wi

in his country at Trinity College, Dublin. Tennent was most notable for his academy,

that of others, by many things which had formerly deceived them (The Great

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