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1726 Gilbert Tennent\'s Bible - Great Awakening -Princeton University-co- founder:
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1726 John Baskett Bible printed in Edinburgh. Measures at 8\" x 9.5\". The present Bible was the Family Bible of Gilbert Tennent and Sarah Spofford Tennent. In the front is an extensive history of the Spofford family previous to Sarah\'s marriage to Gilbert. The genealogy, large in the hand of Sarah, switches pronouns when it comes to describing their children, i.e. the use of \"our first daughter,\' etc. Interestingly, there are two children who perhaps died in infancy mentioned here who seem not mentioned in the standard biographies. The Bible was likely presented to Gilbert in 1726 when he was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry and began his revivalist travels. Tennent was one of the most significant figures of the Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards was it\'s pastor and theologian. Whitfield was it\'s evangelist, but William and Gilbert Tennent in addition to their own revivalist preachingministries received another calling to help carry the revival forward. The tenants opened what would become the seminary of the Great Awakening (the log college) that ultimately bloomed into New Jersey College and then Princeton University with Jonathan Edwards as it\'s president.Gilbert Tennent(5 February 1703 – 23 July 1764) was a pietistic Protestant evangelist in colonialAmerica. Born in a Presbyterian Scots-Irish family inCounty Armagh, Ireland, he migrated to America as a teenager, trained for pastoral ministry, and became one of the leaders of theGreat Awakeningof religious feeling inColonial America, along withJonathan EdwardsandGeorge Whitefield. His most famous sermon, \"On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry,\" compared contemporary anti-revivalistic ministers to the biblicalPhariseesdescribed of the Gospels, resulting in a division of the colonial Presbyterian Church which lasted 17 years. While engaging divisively via pamphlets early in this period, Tennent would later work \"feverishly\" for reunion of the various synods involved.
TheDutch Reformedin New Jersey near New York had been moved byevangelistTheodorus Frelinghuysen. Soon the English-speakers wanted arevivalisticpreacher and called on Tennent. He learned much from Frelinghuysen\'s methods and they became friends. From the start of his career Tennent\'s striking appearance, powerful voice, and convincing style of preaching impressed his hearers; but he made few converts. Tennent made a searching examination into the experiences of professing Christians, which convinced him that many of them had not been converted. He changed style, preaching with great vividness on sin, retribution, repentance, and the need of a conscious inner change. As a result many were aroused to a more vital interest in religion. Other revivalists joined and soon the Tennents and their associates became one of the sources of the Great Awakening. He helped bringGeorge Whitefieldto the area, thus making the First Great Awakening a major event up and down the thirteen colonies. Tennent concentrated on the New Jersey-New York area, and made forays into New England as well.
The theme of his first sermon in New England was \"The Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees.\" Tennent condemned religious formalism as hollow and meaningless; he brandished the terrors of God before the eyes of sinners, and he boldly summoned his hearers to repentance and newness of life. No one could deny the power of his preaching. One of the Boston ministers testified that about 600 persons concerned for their souls had visited him in three months\' time; another reported 1,000 or more.