1740 DANIEL CAMPBELL. Important Great Awakening Imprint of Sacramental Meditations. Jonathan Edwards Interest.

Very scarce Great Awakening / Jonathan Edwards related imprint of a superb work by Daniel Campbell [1665-1722]. He was ordained to the ministry at Glassary in Argyllshire in 1691. He was the author of many works of devotion, but none was more popular than his 1698 Sacramental Meditations, originally preached in Irish [which was spoken in Argyllshire, Scotland in the 17th century]. It was a work perfectly suited to The Great Awakening and underwent imprints in Scotland to accompany the Cambuslang and Kilsyth revivals under George Whitefield, with their accompanying large outdoor celebrations of the Lord’s Supper. It then followed Whitefield to America, along with the accompanying hymns by Watts, and was printed, according to Jonathan Edwards scholar, Jonathan Yeager, as Samuel Kneeland believed. . . “. . . [it] could be used by revivalists to help foster authentic piety at that time.” Campbell, Daniel. Sacramental Meditations on the Sufferings and Death of Christ. In which the Humiliati