Jonathan Edwards was a pastor in Northampton who was a key figure in the First Great Awakening, a religious revival that swept the early American colonies. His most famous sermon was “Sinners in ...

JONATHAN EDWARDS ... A few such sermons more, and the town began to go into, a spiritual paroxysm. Conversions came 30 a week. Driven to despair by Edwards’ sermons, Joseph Hawley, Edwards ...