And now it was expressed in papers read before the synod by Blair and Gilbert Tennent.

The action of the synod went so far toward sustaining the men of the New Side as to repeal the rule restraining ministers from preaching outside of their own parishes, and as to put on record a thanksgiving for the work of God in the land.
Through all the days of the synod's meeting, daily throngs on Society Hill were addressed by the Tennents and other "hot gospelers" of the revival, and churches and private houses were resounding with revival hymns and exhortations.

Already the preaching and printing of Gilbert Tennent's "Nottingham Sermon" had made further fellowship between the two parties for the time impossible.

The sermon flagrantly illustrated the worst characteristic of the revivalists--their censoriousness.

It was a violent invective on "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry," which so favorable a critic as Dr.Alexander has characterized as "one of the most severely abusive sermons which was ever penned." The answer to it came in a form that might have been expected.