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Interpreting the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century was in large part the work of Jonathan Edwards—whose writings on the subject defined the revival tradition in America. Moving from sensitive descriptions of “the surprising work of God” in conversion to a consuming quest for the essence of true religion, and threading his way through mounting controversies over “errors in doctrine and...

church from these carnal ordinances, on the ceasing of the legal dispensation, a glorious Gospel feast was provided for souls, and God fed his people with spiritual dainties, and filled them with the Spirit, and gave ’em joy in the Holy Ghost. Ishmael, in mocking at the time of Isaac’s feast, by the Apostle’s testimony, represented the carnal Jews, the children of the literal Jerusalem, who when they beheld the rejoicings of Christians in their spiritual and evangelical privileges, were filled with
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