biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1703–64)
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| biography:
| Protestant evangelist, born in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. He emigrated to America with his father c.1718 and entered the ministry in 1725. A fiery, persuasive preacher, he helped foment the religious revival known as the Great Awakening, during which he travelled through the N colonies with English evangelist George Whitefield. His dismissive views on the pastorate and on the Church as an institution provoked a schism among New Jersey Presbyterians in the 1740s. Mellowing in later years, when he served in Philadelphia he helped to heal the breach he had largely created. |
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