Includes bibliographical references.

A selection of hymns / Isaac Watts -- Biography of a Moravian / Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf -- Justice for the punishment of sin / Jonathan Dickinson -- George Whitefield's signature sermon -- Calvinism under fire / John Wesley -- The conversion of a Welshman / Howell Harris -- A selection of hymns by Charles Wesley -- A divisive great awakening sermon / Gilbert Tennent -- Revivals as a means of reform / Samuel Finley -- Diary of doubts / Hannah Heaton -- Racing to hear Whitefield preach / Nathan Cole -- Revival at Cambuslang, Scotland / William McCulloch -- Overcome by the power of the spirit / Sarah Pierpont Edwards -- Revival at Kilsyth, Scotland / James Robe -- Jonathan Edwards assesses a revival / Thomas Prince -- Piety over worldly pleasures / Susanna Anthony -- Satan's strategies of deception / Thomas Gillespie -- Spiritual devotions for the soul / Philip Doddridge -- A conversion story / John Cennick -- A missionary among Native Americans / David Brainerd -- A selection of hymns / Benjamin Ingham -- Summarizing God's law / Joseph Bellamy -- Revival in the low countries / Hugh Kennedy -- Satirical revenge / John Witherspoon -- Natural vs. moral necessity in the will / Jonathan Edwards -- Open letter to commit oneself to God / Sarah Prince Gill -- The humiliation and exaltation of the cross / John Maclaurin -- Determining divine grace / Sarah Osborn -- Eloquent Calvinism / James Hervey -- Life as the wife of a college president / Esther Edwards Burr -- Report on African American religion in Virginia / Samuel Davies -- Praising the ineffable / Anne Steele -- Before Dartmouth College / Eleazar Wheelock -- The difference between true and false religion / Henry Venn -- Salvation at sea / John Newton -- An Anglican minister describes faith / William Romaine -- Faith restricted to the mind / John Erskine -- Advice to women on chastity, poverty, and obedience / Mary Fletcher -- Defending the doctrine of Christian perfection / John William Fletcher -- A selection of hymns / William Williams -- Advice on alcohol / Samson Occom -- An argument for the separation of church and state / Isaac Backus -- A selection of poems / Phillis Wheatley -- Practical disinterested benevolence / Samuel Hopkins -- Amazing Grace (How Sweet the Sound) / John Newton -- A Baptist's beliefs / John Ryland Jr. -- A gospel call to sinners / Henry Alline -- The duty to respond to the gospel message / Andrew Fuller -- The ideal student / Charles Nisbet -- The unlawfulness of enslaving humans / Thomas Clarkson -- An appeal to the higher ranks of society / Hannah More -- Salvation comes to a sailor / Olaudah Equiano -- Journal of an American Methodist / Francis Asbury -- Guidelines for American Methodists / Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke -- An argument for overseas missionary work / William Carey -- The necessity of evil / Samuel Hopkins -- Godly living in a New England town / Timothy Dwight -- Debunking racial stereotypes / Richard Allen -- An Anglican evangelical's sermon / Charles Simeon -- True and false religion exposed / William Wilberforce -- Godly government during a time of crisis / Lemuel Haynes -- A conspiracy theorist's theory / Jedidiah Morse.

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Early evangelicalism flourished during the transatlantic revivals of the eighteenth century, coinciding with the emergence of the Enlightenment in America and Europe. This anthology introduces a host of important religious figures, providing biographical sketches of each author and over sixty excerpts from a wide range of well-known and lesser-known Protestant Christians.