The Evangelical Revival recovered the Protestant emphases on conversion, the supremacy of Scripture, and gospel preaching in reaction to the prevailing rationalism. Anglican, in common with other Evangelicals, sought to revive the Augustinian strain in theology and reassert the doctrine of justification by faith. Their emphasis, however, was on justification as a felt experience that became the badge of authenticity of saving faith, not quite what the sixteenth-century Reformers taught. While they
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