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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: To the REVEREND Benjamin Colman, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Boston,
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To the REVEREND Benjamin Colman, D. D. Pastor of a Church in Boston,
Westfield, Octob. 11 1738. SIR,
IN your Letter of August 19 you inform us, that the Rev. Dr. Watts and Dr. Guise desire that some other Ministers, who were Eye and Ear Witnesses to some of those numerous Conversions in the other Towns about Northampton, would Attest unto what the Rev. Mr. Edwards has written of them.
IN your Letter of August 19 you inform us, that the Rev. Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse desire that some other Ministers, who were Eye and Ear Witnesses to some of those numerous Conversions in the other Towns about Northampton, would Attest unto what the Rev. Mr. Edwards has written of them.
We take this Opportunity to assure you that the Account Mr. Edwards has given in his Narrative of our several Towns or Parishes is true; and that much more of the like Nature might have been added with Respect to some of them.