1. Great Cloud
of Witnesses
Session 6

3. Eyewitness
Report
“A Faithful
Narrative of the
Surprizing Work
of God in the
CONVERSION of
Many Hundred
Souls in
Northampton …”

4. Jonathan Edwards
“More than 300
souls were savingly
brought home to
Christ, in this town,
in the space of half
a year, and about
the same number of
males as females.”

5. George
Whitefield
(1714 –
1770)

7. A Place for “Holy
Affections”
“True religion, in great part, consists in holy
affections. I am bold to assert that there
never was any considerable change wrought
in the mind or conversation [lifestyle] … that
had not his affections moved.”
“He that has doctrinal knowledge and
speculation only, without affection, never is
engaged in the business of religion.”
--Jonathan Edwards (1746)

8. David
Brainerd
(1718 –
1747)

9. David Brainerd
August 8, 1745
“In the afternoon I preached to the Indians upon
Luke 15:16-23. There was much visible concern
among them, while I was discoursing publicly….
The power of God seemed to descend upon the
assembly ‘like a mighty rushing wind,’ and with an
astonishing energy bore down all before it.
“I stood amazed at the influence, which seized
the audience almost universally…. Almost all
persons of all ages were bowed down with concern
together, and scarcely one was able to withstand
the shock of this surprising operation.”

10. Capt. Thomas Webb
First Methodist Sermon in America (1766)
“The words of the text were written
by the Apostles after the act of
justification has passed on them.
But you see, my friends, this was
not enough for them. They must
receive the Holy Ghost after this. So
must you. You must be sanctified.
But you are not. You are only
Christians in part. You have not
received the Holy Ghost. I know it. I
can feel your spirits hanging about
me like so much dead flesh.”