The Narrated Puritan

In all of the years I have studied the history of Revival, nothing comes close to the scope and reach of the Prayer Revival of 1857-1858 and the resulting revivals in the U K and elsewhere.

I wish it were a matter of difficulty to confirm the truth of what is here observed. But what is affirmed is but expressive of the state and condition of most of those in the world to whom the gospel is preached. They come short of all benefit or advantage by it. It ever was so, and it may be, for the most part, ever will be so in this world. That sentence of our Savior contains th

-This is not done by any immediate revelation or impulse, or merely by any text brought to the mind -for all these things are equivocal and delusory-- but by coinciding with the testimony of their own consciences as to their uprightness in embracing the gospel and giving themselves up to the service of God. So that, whilst they are examining themselves concerning the reality of the

The hearts of natural men are dreadfully hard and incorrigible. There is nothing but the mighty power of God will move them. They will cleave to sin, and go on in sin, let what will be done with them. Pro. 27-22, -Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.- There is nothing that will awe our hearts- and the

An examination of what is at the root of indwelling sin, John Owen's Treatise on this subject.

There should be something in your dress, to indicate, that, though you do not affect a needless and scornful singularity, -which is often the source of censoriousness and envy,- yet your heart is not set upon these little things. If a woman, when going to public worship, looks in the mirror, and contemplates, with a secret self-delight, the figure which it reflects to her view-I am

Exposition of Psalm 130-4-The difficulties that lie in the way of faith's discovery of forgiveness, whence it appears to be a matter of greater weight and importance than it is commonly apprehended to be, have been insisted on in the foregoing discourse. There is yet remaining another ground of the same truth. Now, this is taken from the nature and greatness of the thing itself dis

Abigail was first awakened in the winter season, on Monday, by something she heard her brother say of the necessity of being in good earnest in seeking regenerating grace, together with the news of the conversion of the young woman before mentioned, whose conversion so generally affected most of the young people here. This news wrought much upon her, and stirred up a spirit of envy

This is chapter 4, part 2 of The Christian's Great Interest, written sometime before 1665