Tennent, Gilbert 1703-1764

Tennent was an Irish-born American Presbyterian clergyman, son and brother of three other Presbyterian clergymen. His father, William Tennent, emigrated to America in 1718, and was the founder of a theological school at Warminster, Pennsylvania called, because of the way it was housed, the Log College. Log College is regarded as the precursor to Princeton University. Gilbert was one of the leaders of the Great Awakening of religious feeling in Colonial America, along with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. His most famous sermon, "On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" compared anti-revivalistic ministers to the Pharisees described in the gospels.
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Biographical sketches of the founder, and principal alumni of the Log college (1845) by Archibald Alexander
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Biographical Sketch of Gilbert Tennent
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Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 3 - 1860 (see page 35)

Sermons and Essays by the Tennents and Their Contemporaries (1856)
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Chapter I. The Justice of God (page 9)
Chapter II. The Divine Mercy (page 34)
Chapter III. The Grace of God (page 49)
Chapter IV. The Wisdom of God in Redemption (page 69)

The Late association for defence farther encouraged, or, Defensive war defended, : and its consistency with true Christianity represented in a reply to some exceptions against war, in a late composure, intituled, The doctrine of Christianity, as held by the peolple called Quakers, vindicated (1748)
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Twenty-three sermons upon the chief end of man, the divine authority of the Sacred Scriptures, the being and attributes of God, and the doctrine of the Trinity : preach'd at Philadelphia Anno Dom. 1743 .. (1744)
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Some account of the principles of the Moravians - 1743
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The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry read by Tony Hayling AUDIO:
An 18th Century sermon by Gilbert Tennent, controversial for its scathing comments about formalism and "professionalism" in the Presbyterian Churches of the Colonies.
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