Revival Lectures

This is 100% Finney with no deletions or additions. It is from the original first edition printed in 1837. These lectures were edited and proofed from photocopies from the original book. My many thanks to Bill Mann, Michael and Pam Burns, Bob Borer, Paul J. DiBartolo, Eugene Detweiler, Sheila Rose, Daniel F. Smith, John Hempstead, Tom Shadle, Tim Brown and Ron Jensen for all their hard work.

My special thanks to Robert Wynn who edited the whole series and without all his hard work these lectures would not exist.

Preface

As these Lectures occupied from an hour and a quarter to an hour and three quarters in the delivery, it will be seen by their length, as here given, that the reporter took down but little more than a full skeleton of them. I have made but very slight alterations and additions in revising them, for the following reasons:

1. Their publication was determined on too late, so that I had very little time.

2. My ill health and multiplied duties forbade.

3. To have enlarged them much would have swelled the volume beyond the contemplated size.

4. From experience I have learned that the conversational and condensed style in which they were reported, is more interesting and edifying to common readers, than a more elevated and less laconic style.

I have, therefore, left them as they were reported, with a few verbal and trifling alterations.

The author of the Lectures has no claim to literary merit; and, if he knows his own heart, has no desire that the Lectures should be anything else than useful.

I have reason to believe that, upon the whole, they will be as much so in their present as under any other form I could give them, circumstanced as I am.

As my friends wish to have them in a volume, they must take them as they are.

CONTENTS

1836

LECTURE I. - SELF DECEIVERS

LECTURE II. - FALSE PROFESSORS

LECTURE III. - DOUBTFUL ACTIONS ARE SINFUL

LECTURE IV. - REPROOF A CHRISTIAN DUTY

LECTURE V. - TRUE SAINTS

LECTURE VI. - LEGAL RELIGION

LECTURE VII. - RELIGION OF PUBLIC OPINION

LECTURE VIII. - CONFORMITY TO THE WORLD

LECTURE IX. - TRUE AND FALSE REPENTANCE

LECTURE X. - DISHONESTY IN SMALL MATTERS INCONSISTENT WITH HONESTY IN ANYTHING

LECTURE XI. - BOUND TO KNOW YOUR TRUE CHARACTER

1837

LECTURE I. - TRUE AND FALSE CONVERSION

LECTURE II. - TRUE SUBMISSION

LECTURE III. - SELFISHNESS NOT TRUE RELIGION

LECTURE IV. - RELIGION OF THE LAW AND GOSPEL

LECTURE V. - JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH

LECTURE VI. - SANCTIFICATION BY FAITH

LECTURE VII. - LEGAL EXPERIENCE

LECTURE VIII. - CHRISTIAN PERFECTION

LECTURE IX. - CHRISTIAN PERFECTION

LECTURE X. - WAY OF SALVATION

LECTURE XI. - NECESSITY OF DIVINE TEACHING

LECTURE XII. - LOVE THE WHOLE OF RELIGION

LECTURE XIII. - REST OF THE SAINTS

LECTURE XIV. - CHRIST THE HUSBAND OF THE CHURCH