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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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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.
In a LETTER to the Revd. Dr. COLMAN of Boston, &c.
Reverend and Honoured Sir,
HAVING seen your Letter to my honoured Uncle Williams of Hatfield of July 20, wherein you inform him of the Notice that has been taken of the late wonderful Work of God, in this, and some other Towns in this County; by the Rev. Dr. Watts and Dr. Guise of London, and the Congregation to which the last of these preached on a monthly Day of solemn Prayer; as also, of your desire to be more perfectly acquainted with it, by some of us on the spot: and having ⟨p. 2⟩been since informed by my Uncle Williams, that you desire me to undertake it; I would now do it, in as just and faithful a Manner as in me lies.
HAVING seen your Letter to my honoured Uncle Williams of Hatfield of July 20, wherein you inform him of the Notice that has been taken of the late wonderful Work of God, in this, and some other Towns in this County; by the Rev. Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse of London, and the Congregation to which the last of these preached on a monthly Day of solemn Prayer; as also, of your desire to be more perfectly acquainted with it, by some of us on the spot: and having ⟨p. 2⟩been since informed by my Uncle Williams, that you desire me to undertake it; I would now do it, in as just and faithful a Manner as in me lies.