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young people of Northampton experimented an explosion of religious enthusiasm.
Many men and young women in New England could not get married
because the population in rapids growth of the New England left little available earth, what hindered that the
young people could sustain for if same. Of an age to get married, but tightened
under their parents' authority, the men and the women in their last years of
adolescence and twenty years they often devote him to the idleness, gossips and
sexual sins. Edwards attached those sins in his preaching and, after years of
resistance, many gods young people suddenly united him to the affiliation of
the church, professing the conversion. Edwards wrote on this revival in his Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God <span>(1737)</span>