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The writings of Jonathan Edwards contain the most complete description we have of the piety of eighteenth-century American Puritans. Events made Edwards a specialist in Puritan consciousness. As he said, "It is a subject on which my mind has been peculiarly intent, ever since I first entered on the study of divinity. Besides inquiring into his own heart, he was chief defender and interpreter of the Great Awakening and closely studied revival conversions to distinguish God's work from mere emotions.
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Bushman, Richard L. "Jonathan Edwards and Puritan Consciousness," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, V (Fall, 1966), 383-396.