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title: 'Hughes Oliphant Old on Samuel Davies'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-10-02
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-hughes-oliphant-old-on-samuel-davies
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# Hughes Oliphant Old on Samuel Davies

“The apostle of the Great Awakening in Virginia, [**Samuel Davies**](/authors/samuel-davies) was the most well balanced, the most literate, the most popular in his appeal, and at the same time the most theologically cogent American preacher of the eighteenth century.” — **Hughes Oliphant Old**, *The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church*, Vol. 5 (2004), p. 154