PRIOR TO OUR AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 1734 A GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING FOUND ITS GENESIS IN JONATHON EDWARDS’ CHURCH, AND GEORGE WHITEFIELD HELPED ADD TO THIS GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING, PREACHING OVER 18,000 SERMONS FROM 1740-1770 UNTO THE AMERICAN COLONISTS FROM MARYLAND TO GEORGIA, BUT SATAN NEVER RESTS , SOWING TARES AMONGST THE WHEAT AND THUS JONATHON EDWARDS WROTE HIS TREATISE RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS TO HELP US DISCERN WHETHER OR NOT WE MIGHT BE AN ALMOST CHRISTIAN, TRAPED IN DEAD DOCTRINAIRISM, AND NOT A TRUE CHRISTIAN, WITH TRUE SPIRITUAL EMOTIONALISM, THAT IS TRUE RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS. JONATHON EDWARDS UNEQUIVOCALLY DEMONSTRATES THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURES HOW GOD’S RELIGIOUS CHARACTERS THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES WERE RELIGIOUSLY AFFECTED AS NEW CREATIONS MAKING US DESIRE TO BE MADE A NEW CREATION.
