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The Beginning of the late Work of God in this Place was so circumstanced, that I could not but look upon it as a remarkable Testimony of God's Approbation of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, here asserted and vindicated:—By the noise that had a little before been raised in this County, concerning that Doctrine, People here seemed to have their Minds put into an unusual Ruffle; some were brought to doubt of that Way of Acceptance with God, which from their Infancy they had been taught to be the only Way, and many were engaged more thoroughly to •ook into the Grounds of those Doctrines they had been educated in:—The following Discourse of Justification, that was preached, (tho' not so fully as it is here printed,) at two public Lectures, seemed to be remarkably blessed, not only to establish the Judgments of many in this Truth, but to engage their Hearts in a more earnest pursuit of Justification, in that Way that had been explained and defended; And at that Time, while I was greatly reproached for defending this Doctrine in the Pulpit, and just upon my suffering a very open Abuse for it, God's Work wonderfully brake forth amongst us, and Souls began to flock to Christ, as the Saviour in whose Righteousness alone they hoped to be justified: So that this was the Doctrine on which this Work in its Beginning was •ounded, as it evidently was in the whole progress of it.

The Beginning of the late Work of God in this Place was so circumstanced, that I could not but look upon it as a remarkable Testimony of God's Approbation of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, here asserted and vindicated:—By the noise that had a little before been raised in this County, concerning that Doctrine, People here seem'd to have their Minds put into an unusual Ruffle; some were brought to doubt of that Way of Acceptance with God, which from their Infancy they had been taught to be the only Way, and many were engaged more thoroughly to •ook into the Grounds of those Doctrines they had been educated in:—The following Discourse of Justification, that was preach'd, (tho' not so fully as it is here printed,) at two publick Lectures, seem'd to be remarkably bless'd, not only to establish the Judgments of many in this Truth, but to engage their Hearts in a more earnest pursuit of Justification, in that Way that had been explained and defended; And at that Time, while I was greatly reproached for defending this Doctrine in the Pulpit, and just upon my suffering a very open Abuse for it, God's Work wonderfully brake forth amongst us, and Souls began to flock to Christ, as the Saviour in whose Righteousness alone they hoped to be justified: So that this was the Doctrine on which this Work in its Beginning was ounded, as it evidently was in the whole progress of it.