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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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and tho' many were greatly bruised, and their Flesh torn, yet there is not▪ as I can understand, one •one broke, or so much as put out of Joint among them all: Some that were thought to be almost dead at first, are greatly recovered; and but one young Woman seems yet to remain in dangerous Circumstances, by an inward Hurt in her Breast: but of late there appears more Hope of her Recovery. ⟨p. vii⟩There is none can give any Account, or conceive by what Means it should come to pass, that Peoples Lives and Limbs should be thus preserved, when so great a Multitude were thus imminently exposed: It looked as tho' it was impossible it should be otherwise, than that great Numbers should instantly he cr•sh•d to death or dashed in pieces: It seems unreasonable to ascribe it to any thing else, but the Care of Providence in disposing the Motions of every Stick of Timber, & the precise Place of Safety where every one should sit, & fall, when none were in any Capacity to take care for their own Preservation. The Preservation seems to be most wonderful, with Respect to the Women, and Children that were in the middle Alley, under the Gallery, where it came down first, and with greatest Force, and where was nothing to break the Force of the falling Weight. Such an Event may be a sufficient Argument of a Divine Providence over the Lives of Men. We thought ourselves called to set apart a Day to be spent in the solemn Worship of God, so humble ourselves under such a Rebuke of God upon us in the Time of public Service in God's House by so dangro•s and surprising an Accident; and to praise his Name for so wonderful, and as it were Miraculous a Preservation; and the last Wednesday was kept by us to that End: And a Mercy in which the Hand of God is so remarkably evident, may be well worthy to effect the Hearts of all that hear it. Thus far the Letter.
and tho' many were greatly bruised, and their Flesh torn, yet there is not▪ as I can understand, one •one broke, or so much as put out of Joint among them all: Some that were thought to be almost dead at first, are greatly recover'd; and but one young Woman seems yet to remain in dangerous Circumstances, by an inward Hurt in her Breast: but of late there appears more Hope of her Recovery.