# “The main benefit of preaching is awakening” by Jonathan Edwards

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“The main benefit that is obtained by preaching is by impression made upon the mind
in the time of it, and not by an effect that arises afterwards by a remembrance 
of what was delivered. And though an after-remembrance of what was heard in a sermon
is oftentimes very profitable, yet, for the most part, that remembrance is from 
an impression the words made on the heart in the time of it.”

–Jonathan Edwards, _Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in 
New England_, in Edwards, _The Great Awakening_, ed. C. C. Goen, Vol. 4 of _Works
of Jonathan Edwards_ (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972), 397.

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