LECTURES

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.

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.

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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.

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CONTENTS.

ANDOVER HARVARD

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

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.

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.

PHILIPPIANS I, 27.

-Striving together for the faith of the gospel,

LECTURE VI.

TREATMENT DUE TO AWAKENED SINNERS.

ACTS III. 19.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted,

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REVELATION V. 13.

Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon
the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever and ever,

APPENDIX.

LETTER I.

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From the late Reverend Edward Payson, D. D...............

From the Reverend Edward D. Griffin, D. D.......

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