1844 JOHN NEVIN. The Anxious Bench. A Critique of Charles G. Finney, Emotionalism, and the "New Methods." Jonathan Edwards *Thoughts on the Use and

*Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of Reason

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Clarke at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane

Girolamo Zanchi's The Whole Body of Christian Religion

Spurgeon quotes Orme in his Treasury of David and found his pastoral writings especially prescient during the Downgrade Controversy

1844 JOHN NEVIN. The Anxious Bench. A Critique of Charles G. Finney, Emotionalism, and the "New Methods." Jonathan Edwards *Thoughts on the Use andVery rare second enlarged edition of Nevin's historically important critique of the Second Great Awakening's "New Methods," focusing on emotional response, altar calls, the anxious bench, etc., which had begun to seed in the ministry of George Whitefield, but found full bloom in the revivalist meetings of Charles G. Finney, Jedidiah Burchard, and others. Finney and Burchard, by name, are specifically the targets of the present work. Nevin, John W. A