Marsden notes the three stages in an awakening as noted by the Edwards family:
1. A 'sense of a persons sad estate with reference to eternity'.
2. Humiliation: A backsliding into sin that would lead them to realize the terribleness of their sins and that God would be entirely just in condemning them to hell.
3. If God graciously granted it - God's regenerating 'light', or a 'new spirit created in them,' so that they truely repented and sin would no longer reign in them, but rather they would be guided by the Holy Spirit 'dwelling in them' and they would receive the gift of faith in Christ alone as their hope of salvation and would experience a 'glorious change' to a life dedicated to serving God.
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