A SERMON PREACH'D BEFORE THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AT ST. MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER, ON FRIDAY JANUARY THE 30TH 1735/6. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I.
London: Printed for T. Osborne. . . 1736. 4to. 34pp, as issued. Disbound, else Very Good.
The author was "Fellow of Corpus-Christi-College Oxon, and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." He urges his audience to shun the enthusiasms and emotionalism of the Great Awakening. "We have had too many Instances of Men, who have extinguished the Light of Reason to pursue a supposed Illumination from Heaven, and have pleaded a Divine Impulse for Actions, directly contrary to the Principles of Nature, and all the established Maxims of Morality."
The Great Awakening swept England and the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. George Whitefield and John Wesley were among its leading figures. Jonathan Edwards "advanced and supported the Great Awakening in New England, but viewed with suspicion the emotional excesses generated by the revival. While he encouraged repentance and heartfelt devotion to God, he was bothered somewhat by the shreiking [sic], trances, and ecstatic deliriums that often accompanied the revivals" ["Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening: Did You Know?", by the Editors of Christian History Magazine, website of Christian History Institute, accessed May 01, 2026.]
ESTC T45999. Item #41776
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