AMERICANA 52 58EDWARDS, Jonathan. A Faithful Narrative. Boston, 1738. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 7-3/4 inches), contemporary full brown sheep. $15,000 “Satan Seemed To Be More Let Loose, And Raged In A Dreadful Manner”: Jonathan Edwards’ Faithful Narrative, Describing The Beginnings Of The “Great Awakening” Religious Revival In America First American edition of this important account of the beginning of “The Great Awakening” by one of the most famous American religious figures, creator of “the first great religious revival of modern times” (ANB). Edwards’ Faithful Narrative describes Christian conversion in his congregations in Northampton, Massachusetts, during the Great Awakening. “Edwards was apparently a stranger to Northampton in 1726, and his Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (1737) describes both the utopian community he had heard attributed to Stoddard’s dominion and the less happy reality he found for himself… The Faithful Narrative describes how in the winter of 1734–1735, first the young people, and then their elders, responded to Edwards’ preaching with a renewed spiritual energy and a newly virtuous repertoire of public and private behavior. Visitors observed the work of the Spirit in Northampton and took the spark home to their own congregations, thereby promoting an unprecedentedly broad regional revival” (ANB). “Third Edition” stated on title page, though this is the first edition published in the American colonies; preceded by the 1737 first English edition, and possibly by the 1738 Edinburgh edition. Short closed tear to a3 and I3 in Faithful Narrative; some foxing and faint dampstaining throughout volume. A very good copy in nicely restored contemporary calf.
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