EVANGELICAL REVIVAL IN GREAT BRITAIN

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Religious fervor is not a constant. When it
flames most brightly, it transforms not only
individuals but history yet among the same
people it may die down into smoldering ashes that
give no heat to personal life nor any energy to
national life James G. Leyburn The
Scotch-Irish, p.47
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CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 22EVANGELICAL REVIVAL
IN GREAT BRITAIN

1. THE SITUATION IN ENGLAND

Social Chaos
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Religious Decline
The Vanishing Gospel
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Church of England
Latitudinarian
You should remove the not from the 10
Commandments and insert it into the Apostles
creed!
The Dissenters
The most numerous and rich of the dissenters in
England were the Presbyterians who were also the
leaders of the general apostasy of the dissenters
from the principles of the Reformation Samue
l Davies
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
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II. The Evangelical Revival
A. The Moravians
January 1, 1739 Pentecost at New Year
Fetter Lane Society
Benjamin Ingham John Cennick
The Moravians did not set out to establish their
own churches but to be useful in the renewal of
all denominations
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B. John Wesley and the Methodists
1. Wesleys Life Work
But John and Charles did not learn from their
parents, and did not learn from their home and
their church, the grace and truth of Christs
justification by faith alone Dr. David Calhoun
Samuel Susanna
The Holy Club
In Georgia
Four encounters with the Moravians 1. On passage
to Georgia
2. Savannah
3. London/Peter Bohler
4. Hernhutt
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Conversion My heart Strangely Warmed
May 24, 1738 Aldersgate Street
Conversion makes him a Flaming Evangelist
4. Hernhutt
2. Wesleys Theology
1703-1791
Peace to his ashes, death to his errors, life to
all the truth he preached CH Spurgeon
Evangelical Arminianism
Perfectionism
The trouble with John Wesley was that he was too
logicalhe took certain statements and pressed
them to their logical conclusion, irrespective of
other statements of Scripture MLJ
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3. John and Charles Wesleys Hymns
Long my imprisioned spirit lay Fast bound in sin
and natures nigth Thine eye diffused a
quickning ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with
light My chains fell off, my heart was free, I
rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
CHARLES WESLEY 1707-1788
4. The Methodists
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C. George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Early Life and Conversion
Life of God in the Soul of Man Henry Scogal
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Whitefield and Scotland
If the pope himself would lend me his pulpit, I
would gladly proclaim the righteousness of Jesus
Christ therein.
Whitefield and Wales
Griffith Jones (1683-1761) Daniel Rowland
(1713-1790)
Howell Harris (1714-1773)
William Williams (1717-1791)
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Whitefield and America
Chapel of Huntingdons Connexion
Lady Huntingdon (Lady Selina Shirley (1707-1791)
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C. The Anglican Evangelicals
William Romaine (1714-1795)
William Grimshaw (1708-63) The Apostle of the
North
When I die, I shall have my greatest grief and
my greatest joy my greatest grief that I have
done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy
that Jesus has done so much for me.
John Berridge (1719-93) Apostle of Cam and Fen
Henry Venn (1724-97)
John Newton (1725-1807)
Hannah More (1745-1833)
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J.C. Ryles summation of the theological
principles of the Evangelical Revival

• The absolute supremacy of the Bible as the
  only rule of faith and practice, the only test of
  truth, the only judge of controversy.
• The corruption of human nature by sin
• The centrality of the atonement
• The necessity of an experimental knowledge of
  Christ crucified and the inward work of the
  Holy Spirit in the heart of men
• The requirement of a serious, holy life as the
  only certain evidence of a mans spiritual
  condition

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The Great Awakening
Religious Condition in the Colonies
Spiritual Deadness
The body of the rising generation is a poor,
perishing, unconverted (except the Lord pour down
his Spirit) an undone generation Increase
Mather, 1678
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Symbols of deadness and decline Half-way
Covenant
Theological Liberalism
Beginnings of revival
Theodore Frelinghuysen 1691-1747
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Gilbert Tennant 1703-1764
New Brunswick
Log College, Nashaminy, PA
Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758
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George Whitefield 1714-1770
Bethesda in Georgia 1738
2nd Trip 1739, 40, 41
13 Crossings 732 days on the water!