He, his immediate follower, Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764), other clergymen, such as James Davenport, and many untrained laymen who took up the work, agreed in the emotional and dramatic character of their preaching, in rousing their hearers to a high pitch of excitement, often amounting to frenzy, in the undue stress they put upon "bodily effects" (the physical manifestations of an abnormal psychic state) as proofs of conversion, and in their unrestrained attacks upon the many clergymen who did not join them and whom they called "dead men," unconverted, unregenerate and careless of the spiritual condition of their parishes. [Please select]
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Clergymen's discussions of the historicity of Jesus. [Please select]
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Some of the clergymen, craving light, had sought it in the Old Testament. [Please select]
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Clergymen, with their black clothes and white cravats, are quite as monotonous as the Quakers. [Please select]
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The bishops and clergymen in gorgeous robes made a more solemn, but not less attractive show. [Please select]
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"He told me to be good, and not to mind what priests and clergymen tell us." [Please select]
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On high occasions clergymen and bishops came, there to hiccough and weep over his blessed memory. [Please select]
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Parr continued, "I have little patience with clergymen who would make religion attractive." [Please select]
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"If more clergymen were like you, I think perhaps you might." [Please select]
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"Not all the clergymen in all the world, not even the Pope of Rome, will ever make me doubt papa, or believe in any punishment after what we've all got to go through here." [Please select]
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I read in the papers that same day a quite long account of a discussion of nine bishops for five hours (meeting at the same time) on a matter of proper clothes for clergymen. [Please select]
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