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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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It may not be amiss in this Place to take Notice, that a very surprising and threatening Providence has this last Year attended the People of Northampton, among whom this Work of divine Grace was so remarkable: Which Providence at first might have been construed by the unthinking World to be a signal Token of God's Displeasure against that Town, or a Judgment from Heaven upon the People; but soon afterwards, like Paul's shaking the Viper off from his Hand, it discovered the astonishing Care and Goodness of God expressed towards a Place where such a Multitude of his young Converts were assembled: Nor can we give a better Account of it than in the Language of this very Gentleman, the Revd Mr. Edwards, Minister of that Town, wh• wrote the following Letter, which was published in New-England.
It may not be amiss in this Place to take Notice, that a very surprizing and threat'ning Providence has this last Year attended the People of Northampton, among whom this Work of divine Grace was so remarkable: Which Providence at first might have been construed by the unthinking World to be a signal Token of God's Displeasure against that Town, or a Judgment from Heaven upon the People; but soon afterwards, like Paul's shaking the Viper off from his Hand, it discovered the astonishing Care and Goodness of God express'd towards a Place where such a Multitude of his young Converts were assembled: Nor can we give a better Account of it than in the Language of this very Gentleman, the Revd Mr. Edwards, Minister of that Town, wh• wrote the following Letter, which was publish'd in New-England.
Northampton, March 19th. 1737. WE in this Town, were the last Lord's Day the Spectators, and many of us the Subjects, of one of the most amazing Instances of divine Preservation, that perhaps was ever known in the Land: Our Meeting-House is old and deca•'d, so that we have been for some time building a new one, which •s yet▪ unfinished: It has been observed of late, that the House that