THE MEANS

OF A

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL.

BY

JOHN HOWARD HINTON, M. A.

"Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion!"....Isaiah lii. 1.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.

SECOND EDITION

BOSTON:

LINCOLN AND EDMANDS.

1831.

1858 Sept. 1.

191/a.132.26

CIRS.21.81

sift of Evereto

Charlestown.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:
District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of April, A. D.
1831, in the fifty-fifth year of the Indedendence of the United
States of America, Lincoln & Edmands, of the said district, have de-
posited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as
Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"The Means of a Religious Revival. By John Howard Hinton, M. A. ‘Awake, awake; put on thy strength; O Zion!' Isaiah lii. I. With an introductory Essay.'

In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned: and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

ADVERTISEMENT.

As the great subject of religious revivals is attracting an increased attention, in the various sections of the United States, the publishers hope to promote the interests of vital piety, by presenting, in a convenient form for circulation, the excellent work of Mr. Hinton on the Means of a Religious Revival.' It is peculiarly adapted to excite to awakened activity, every individual of the Christian Church. To the work is prefixed An Introductory Essay, written by an American Minister, desirous to aid the interesting object of the publication.

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.

THE progress of religion does not, like that of the sciences, depend on the discovery of new principles. God has given to us in his word a complete revelation of religion. It is from the sacred oracles, and from them only, that we are to derive all our religious knowledge. And these oracles were as complete at the filling up of the present canon as they now are, or as they will be at any future period.

There is nothing like this in any of the sciences. There is no system, in which is developed every principle, and to which we are to confine ourselves in every inquiry into the laws of nature, requiring of us simply to multiply our observations of facts to illustrate truths already known.

Every scientific treatise is esteemed valuable— mostly in proportion to what in it is original— to the discoveries it gives to the world of important, ultimate facts.

Not so in religion. There God has given us the principles of which if we are ignorant, it is be