ON

REVIVALS OF RELIGION;

BY

WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN ALBANY :

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

BY LEONARD WOODS, D. D.

ALSO

AN APPENDIX,

CONSISTING OF LETTERS FROM THE REVEREND DOCTORS ALEXANDER, Way-
LAND, DANA, MILLER, HYDE, HAWES, M'DOWELL, PORTER, PAYSON,
PROUDFIT, NEILL, MILLEDOLER, DAVIS, LORD, HUMPHREY, Day,
GREEN, WADDEL, GRIFFIN, AND REV. C. P. McILVAINE.

REESE LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY

CALIFORNIA

PUBLISHED BY

WEBSTER & SKINNERS, O. STEELE, AND W. C. LITTLE, Albany; J. P. HAVEN
AND J. LEAVITT, New-York; TOWAR & HOGAN, Philadelphia;

AND CROCKER & BREWSTER, Boston.

Packard & Van Benthuysen, Printers, Albany.

1832.

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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, by Joseph Alexander, in the office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, by the Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D.

LECTURE I.

NATURE OF A REVIVAL.

ISAIAH XLV. &

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down right-

eousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and

let righteousness spring up together,..

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LECTURE II.

DEFENCE OF REVIVALS.

ACTS II. 13.

Others mocking, said, these men are full of new wine,...

LECTURE III.

OBSTACLES TO REVIVALS.

1 CORINTHIANS IX. 12.

---Lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ,.

LECTURE IV.

DIVINE AGENCY IN REVIVALS.

HABAKKUK III. 2.

O Lord, revive thy work,....

LECTURE V.

GENERAL MEANS OF PRODUCING AND PROMOTING REVIVALS.

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Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon

the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever and ever,

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