The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
By Charles Hodge

The following is comprised of Chapters IV and V of Charles Hodge's, The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.  This section covers the Great Awakening of 1740-1745, as well as the schism in the Presbyterian Church of 1741.

Contents: 

Contents

Table of Contents  

Chapter I, Introduction to the History of the PCUSA

Beginnings and Nature of American Presbyterianism   
Presbyterian Nature of Puritan Settlers in America  

Chapter II, Constitutional Nature of PCUSA  

Calvinist Nature of Founding Ministers of the PCUSA
Nature and Authority of the Church Courts in the Early PCUSA     

Chapter III

Issues of Subscriptionism & Authority of Church Courts

Chapter IV,  The Great Revival of Religion, 1740-1745 

Introduction  
The State of Religion Before the Revival  
The History of the Revival  
The Genuineness of the Revival  
The State of Religion After the Revival  
The Evils Attending the Revival   

Chapter V,  The Schism of 1741

New Brunswick Presbytery’s Disregard of Acts of Synod  
Attacks on an “Unconverted Ministry.” 
Itinerant Preaching in Violation of  Ecclesiastical Order 
The Synod of 1741  
The Aftermath of the Schism of 1741