REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Type Conversion, George Whitefield, Half-Way Covenant
5 Apr 2016
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Remember the puritans: holy commonwealth, each person was to have a conscious religious experience of faith in god, inevitably not all children of original settlers had the experience, halfway covenant of 1662. Colony decides that children of these parents can be baptized (a compromise or half-way covenant ) Pastor, northampton, ma: calvinistic: edwards account of revival entitled a surprising work of god , edwards sermon, sinners in the hands of an angry god, described the horrors of hell. Hellfire and brimstone preaching would be used by later preachers in a more loud fashion in subsequent eras. Second great awakening and later revivals: charles finney, free will, new measures, pray for the sinner by name, the right use of constituted means . Christ: this conscious religious experience of salvation. Is called a conversion and the person who experienced it is called a convert to the. The convert has been saved from his/her lost condition.
