Lectures on Revivals of Religion

REVIVALS OF RELIGION;

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.

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1832.

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.

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CONTENTS.

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

LECTURE I.

NATURE OF A REVIVAL.

ISAIAH XLV. 8.

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,.....

LECTURE II.