Faith encouraged. A brief relation of a strange impression from heaven, on the minds…

I. AND now, First; How many Pious PARENTS are there, who are Travailing for the Souls of their Children, to see a CHRIST formed in them? They cannot see their Children walking in the Truth, but see them walking in the Vanity of their Minds; and the sight holds them in a painful, and inexpressible Anguish. They long, they long to see their Children Live unto God; and that they may be able to say, This Child was Dead, and is Alive again. My Friends, Hold on Praying, Weeping, Believing. Indeed, nothing less than an Almighty ⟨p. 13⟩Arm, can Change and Cleanse the Vicious Hearts of the Ungodly Children. But the Holy SPIRIT, who is the Arm of the Lord, is no less than the Almighty GOD. Oh! Put those Obstinate Hearts into His Glorious and Almighty Hands. He can give an Astonishing Turn unto them. There is nothing too hard for Him. O Lord, I know, that thou canst do every thing! Believers, Behold what was done at Berlin, and be animated.

II. But in the next place, How much may our Faith be now Encouraged, in the Expectation of the GREAT THINGS, which the Promises of our GOD have assured us, are to be done, for the Converting of whole Nations, to come and Worship Him, and Glorify His Name? And more particularly, for the Conversion of the Israelitish Nation; when He that Scattered Israel shall Gather him, and Keep him, as a Shepherd his Flock? There are many Good and Wise Men, who are Looking for the Kingdom of God, and those Influences from Heaven upon Earth, which will bring the Maxims of the EVERLASTING GOSPEL into a General, and ⟨p. 14⟩an Amazing Operation upon a World that is now lying in Wickedness. The Intention of such Things as have been done at Berlin (and elsewhere) is doubtless to let the Faithful see, a few Drops, that may Comfort their Hopes of the Mighty Showers, which GOD in His own Time, [when the Three Years and Six Months are Expired!] will cause to fall upon the Children of Men, and He comes to dwell with Men.