1742 BENJAMIN COLMAN. On Sustainable Religious Revival - "Negroes" in Great Awakening

Last offered at auction in 1921, this important work issued in the immediate sway of the Great Awakening under Jonathan Edwards, Gilbert and William Tennent, and of course, George Whitefield, whom Benjamin Colman personal introduced and promoted in Boston.  The work seems to have four aims: 1. To place the regard for the centrality of Christ squarely at the center of God's manifest presence, acting as a balance or tension to the effusion of the Spirit. 2. Describing what it looks like for God to magnify his Christ, i.e. manifest Himself, in such a way that it defends the current revival. 3. Show the danger of opposing a manifestation of Christ's presence. 4. Describe how best one may participate in and promote the ongoing reviving of the work of God through magnifying Christ.  This last section is superb and in it we feel the weight of aged piety and wisdom. He is the kind of aged saint we should all desire to be. He desires a godly effusion of the Spirit, appreciates the work of grace