The Great Revival - 1740-1745 Part 1

The general behaviour of the people was soon very manifestly altered. Those who were concerned, spent much time in reading the Bible and other good books, and it was a great satisfaction to the people to find how exactly the doctrines which they daily heard preached to them, agreed with those taught by godly men, in other places and in former times. Mr. Blair insisted much in his preaching upon the miserable state of man by nature...

Hodge, Charles. The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America