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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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There were some useful Sermons of the Venerable and Aged Mr William Williams published lately in New-England, which were Preached in that Part of the Country during this Season of the glorious Work of God in the Conversion of Men; to which Dr. Colman […] a most judicious and accurate Abridgement of this Epistle: And a little after, he sent the Original to our Hands, to be communicated to the World under our Care here in London.
There were some useful Sermons of the Venerable and Aged Mr William Williams publish'd lately in New-England, which were Preached in that Part of the Country during this Season of the glorious Work of God in the Conversion of Men; to which Dr. Colman 〈…〉 a most judicious and accurate Abridgement of this Epistl•: And a little after, he sent the Original to our Hands, to be communicated to the World under our Care here in London.
We are abundantly satisfied of the Truth of this Narrative, not only from the pious Character of the Writer, but from the concurrent Testimony of many •her Persons in New England; for this Thing was not […] in a Corner. There is a Spot of Ground, as we are […] informed, wherein there are twelve or fourteen ⟨p. ii⟩Towns and Villages, chiefly situate in the County of Hampshire near the Banks of the River of Connecticut, within the Compass of Thirty Miles, wherein it pleased God two Years ago to display his free and sovereign Mercy in the Conversion of a great Multitude of Souls in a short Space of Time, turning them from a formal, cold and careless Profession of Christianity to the lively Exercise of every Christian Grace, and the powerful Practice of our holy Religion. The great God has seemed to act over again the Miracle of Gideon's Fleece, which was plentifully watered with the Dew of Heaven, while the rest of the Earth round about it was dry, and had no such remarkable Blessing.