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Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…
Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation, viz. I. Justification by faith alone. II. Pressing into the Kingdom of God. III. Ruth's resolution. IV. The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. V. The excellency of Jesus Christ. : Delivered at Northampton, chiefly at the time of the late wonderful pouring out of the spirit of God there. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1738
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THE PREFACE▪
THE Friendly Correspondence which we maintain with our Brethren of New England, gives us now and then the Pleasure of hearing some remarkable Instances of divine Grace in the Conversion of Sinners, and some eminent Examples of Piety in that American Part of the World. But never did we hear or read, since the first Ages of Christianity, any Event of this Kind so surprising as the present Narrative hath set before us. The Revd and worthy Dr. Colman of Boston had given us some short Intimations of it in his Letters; and upon our Request of a more large and particular Account, Mr. Edwards, the happy and successful Minister of Northampton, which was one of the chief Scenes of these Wonders, drew up this History in an Epistle to Dr Colman.
THE Friendly Correspondence which we maintain with our Brethren of New England, gives us now and then the Pleasure of hearing some remarkable Instances of divine Grace in the Conversion of Sinners, and some eminent Examples of Piety in that American Part of the World. But never did we hear or read, since the first Ages of Christianity, any Event of this Kind so surprizing as the present Narrative hath set before us. The Revd and worthy Dr. Colman of Boston had given us some short Intimations of it in his Letters; and upon our Request of a more large and particular Account, Mr. Edwards, the happy and successful Minister of Northampton, which was one of the chief Scenes of these Wonders, drew up this History in an Epistle to Dr Colman.