Index
Index
A Letter to the People of Pennsylvania, 146
Adams, Samuel, 152, 157–58, 161, 178–79
American Bishop, 123, 142, 147–48, 151–52, 162–63, 165, 168, 173
American Revolution, 111, 148, 173, 183, 185, 188–89
Angelo, Henry, 27–28
Anglican Weekly Miscellany, 151
Anglican, arbitrary power, 102, 143;
British political influence, 143;
conflict with Methodists, 76–79;
episcopacy in America, 173;
power of liturgy, 77; support of
Antirevivalists, 87
arbitrary power, 102, 107, 113–14, 127–28, 131, 137, 143, 145–46, 152, 154, 156–57, 166, 170, 174–75, 178, 188–90
Arminianism, 32–33, 36–37, 173
Bethesda, college, 166; orphanage, 87, 89, 91, 106, 124, 127, 134, 138, 165–66, 170
Boston Evening-Post, 83, 85–88
Boston Gazette, 86, 113, 115, 119, 163
Calvin, John, 32
Calvinism, 32–37, 45, 48, 54, 98, 101, 173
Catholicism, 17, 31, 37, 69, 74, 76–78, 84, 96, 99–100, 102, 107, 109–10, 112–15, 118–19, 127, 131–32, 137, 146, 148, 162–63, 165, 178–80
Chauncy, Charles, x, 51, 55, 60, 64–66, 85, 87–91, 93, 96–98, 101, 107, 162, 175
Civil millennialism, 117–19, 127, 132, 148, 180–81
Cleaveland, Ebenezer, 176
commercialism, 68
Congregationalism, 89
Convention of New England Ministers, 97–99, 120
conversion experience, 2, 5–9, 13, 17, 20, 23–24, 28, 32–38, 43–44, 46–50, 67, 69, 72, 87, 93, 98, 122–23, 143, 149, 169, 175–76, 191, 192
Countess of Huntingdon, 121–23, 136–37
Curse of Meroz, 130–31, 181–82, 185, 187, 190
Cushing, Thomas, 157–58
Davenport, James, 52, 60, 62, 65–66, 83, 85, 120
Declaration of Independence, 155, 186
Dickinson, John, 169–70
Drayton, William Henry, 184
Edward, Charles, 120, 148–49, 152, 154–57, 160, 166, 168
Edwards, Jonathan, 33–38, 52, 55, 62, 63, 66, 71, 89, 101, 117, 120, 130, 188
Edwards, Sarah, 51
English Civil War, 77
Enlightenment, 11, 19, 114, 188
enthusiasm, 55, 59, 61, 65–66, 71, 84–85, 88–89, 91, 98–101, 119, 143, 176
Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against, 66
Erskine, Ralph, 73
Franklin, Benjamin, 29–30, 43, 47, 49, 132–34, 146, 158, 160–62, 186
Frelinghuysen, Theodorus, 35, 52
French and Indian War, 102, 118, 128, 144, 147, 180
Galloway, Joseph, 146, 158–60, 162
Garden, Alexander, 18, 53, 59–60, 66, 93
Garrick, David, 27
George II, 78–82, 101, 105–9, 111–12, 118, 131–32
George III, 80, 118, 141–42, 146–48, 152, 155, 166, 169, 176–77
Great Awakening, 28, 62–63, 67, 117, 155, 170, 183, 188
Grenville, George, 147–48, 152, 159
Grenville Program, 148, 153, 159, 162
Harvard University, 62, 87, 90–92, 156, 183
Haven, Samuel, 153
Holy Club, 5, 7, 9, 13, 53, 167
Hume, David, 24
Jacobites, 81, 100, 105–8, 111, 123, 162
James, Elizabeth, 13, 75, 81, 83, 85–86, 121
Jefferson, Thomas, 135, 187–88
Journals, 10–11, 41, 58, 71–72, 121
Knox, John, 111
Langdon, Samuel, 153–54
Locke, John, 34, 54, 60, 188, 195
Louisburg, 128
Mayhew, Jonathan, 111, 118, 144–45, 151, 162, 175
Methodism, 18, 85, 101, 142, 167, 195
Morris, Samuel, 124
New Birth, 8–10, 23, 29, 31, 36–39, 41–44, 46–53, 57–58, 62, 66–67, 72, 75, 82, 93, 97–98, 102, 114, 119, 124, 133, 137, 156, 159, 178, 190–92
New Lights, 35–36, 53, 57, 61, 63, 66–70, 84, 88, 94, 97, 99, 143, 156, 158, 160, 181, 184–85
Old Lights, 36, 52–53, 56–59, 62–63, 88, 92–100, 118–19, 121, 143, 145
Oliver, Peter, 181
Otis, James, 181
Oxford University, 3–8, 167, 194, 196–98
Parsons, Jonathan, 171
passive obedience, 110–11
popular Christianity, 183, 185
preach and return 23
Presbyterians, 73, 107, 111, 120, 128, 159, 181, 186
print and preach, 23
Public relations, 16, 20–21, 23, 43, 128, 174; public opinion, 101, 134, 181
rationalism, 185; see Enlightenment
religious toleration, 74
Revere, Paul, 179
Scougal, Henry, 7
Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion, 66
Secker, Thomas, 142, 144, 152, 165–66
separation of church and state, x–xi
Seward, William, 23, 76, 88; death of, 76
Shirley, William, 95
Shurtleff, William, 97–98
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 142
Sons of liberty, 159–60, 163, 174, 176
St. Margaret’s Parish, 21
Stamp Act, 147, 154–56, 158–63, 170, 173, 179, 189
Stoddard, Solomon, 62
taxation, 148, 152, 154–55, 158, 160
Tennent, Gilbert, 35, 52, 58, 60, 62–63, 65–66, 71, 83, 120, 124, 132, 184
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 65
The Life of God in the Soul of Man, 7
The Minor, 137
The Rights of Colonies Examined, 155
The Rights of the Colonists, 178
The Sentiments of a British American, 155
Tillotson, John, 62
Tory, 77–78, 141–42, 145, 152–53, 168, 173, 176, 178
Townshend Acts, 162
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, 34
Warburton, William, 148–52
Wesley, Charles, 5–7, 9, 13, 16, 18, 41, 49–50, 72, 167
Wesley, John, 5–7, 9, 16, 18, 52, 73, 75, 167
Whig, 37, 74, 82, 101, 103, 123, 141, 143, 152–53, 155, 169, 171, 173, 176, 178, 182, 184, 186, 188, 198
Whitaker, Nathaniel, 161, 182, 198
Whitefield, George, another spirit, 85–86, 90–92, 95, 100, 107, 114, 187, 197; assassination attempt, 13, 80, 151, 185, 197; dream, 20, 166, 170, 194; extempore preaching, 23; cross-eyed, 2; Forgotten Founding Father, 194; marriage to Elizabeth James, 81; ordination of, 10, 19, 73, 142, 150; outdoor preaching, 20, 22, 75; powerful voice, 21, 150; public controversy, 67, 81, 143, 189; stampede, 61; violent persecution, 76
Whitefield’s Journals, 10, 72, 193, 198
Yale University, 194–97