General dissatisfaction with the Toleration Act.--Episcopalians resent petty persecution.--Their desire for an American episcopate.--Conversion of Cutler, Rector of Yale College, and others.--Bishop Gibson's correspondence with Governor Talcott. --Petition of the Fairfield churchmen.--Law of 1727 exempting Churchmen.--Persecution growing out of neglect to enforce the law.--Futile efforts of the Rogerines to obtain exemption.--Charges against the Colony of Connecticut.--The Winthrop case.--Quakers attempt to secure exemption from ecclesiastical rates.--Exemption granted to Quakers and Baptists.--Relative position of the dissenting and established churches in Connecticut. IX. "THE GREAT AWAKENING" Minor revivals in Connecticut before 1740.--Low tone of moral and religious life.--Jonathan Edwards's sermons at Northampton.--Revival of religious interest and its spread among the people.--The Rev. George Whitefield.--The Great Awakening.--Its immediate results. X. THE GREAT SCHISM The Separatist churches.--Old Lights and New.--Opposition to the revival movement.--Severe colony laws of 1742-43--Illustrations of oppression of reformed churches, as the North Church of New Haven, the Separatist Church of Canterbury, and that of Enfield.--Persecution of individuals, as of Rev. Samuel Finlay, James Davenport, John Owen, and Benjamin Pomeroy.--Persecution of Moravian missionaries,--The colony law of 1746, "Concerning who shall vote in Society meeting."--Change in public opinion.--Summary of the influence of the Great Awakening and of the great schism. XI. THE ABROGATION OF THE SAYBROOK PLATFORM Revision of the laws of 1750.--Attitude of the colonial authorities toward Baptists and Separatists.--Influence on colonial legislation of the English Committee of Dissenters.--Formation of the Church of Yale College.--Separatist and Baptist writers in favor of toleration.--Frothingham's "Articles of Faith and Practice."--Solomon Paine's "Letter."--John Bolles's "To Worship God in Spirit and in Truth."--Israel Holly's "A Word in Zion's Behalf."--Frothingham's "Key to Unlock the Door."--Joseph Brown's "Letter to Infant Baptizers."--The importance of the colonial newspaper.--Influence of English non-conformity upon the religious thought of New England.--The Edwardean School.--Hopkinsinianism and the New Divinity.--The clergy and the people.--Controversy over the renewed proposal for an American episcopate.--Movement for consolidation among all religious bodies.--Influences promoting nationalism and, indirectly, religious toleration.--Connecticut at the threshold of the Revolution.--Connecticut clergymen as advocates of civil liberty.--Greater toleration in religion granted by the laws of 1770.--Development of the idea of democracy in Church and State.--Exemption of Separatists by the revision of the laws in 1784.--Virtual abrogation of the Saybrook Platform.--Status of Dissenters. XII. CONNECTICUT AT THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION