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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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But in two or three Years after Mr. Stoddard's Death, there began to be a sensible Amendment of these Evils; the young People showed more of a Disposition to hearken to Counsel, and by degrees left off their Frolicking, and grew observably more Decent in their Attendance on the public Worship, and there were more that manifested a Religious Concern than there used to be.
But in two or three Years after Mr. Stoddard's Death, there began to be a sensible Amendment of these Evils; the young People shew'd more of a Disposition to hearken to Counsel, and by degrees left off their Frolicking, and grew observably more Decent in their Attendance on the publick Worship, and there were more that manifested a Religious Concern than there used to be.
At the latter end of the Year 1733. there appeared a very unusual flexibleness, and yielding to Advice, in our young People. It had been too long their manner ⟨p. 5⟩to make the Evening after the Sabbath *and after our public Lecture, to be especially the Times of their Mirth, and Company keeping. But a Sermon was now preached on the Sabbath before the Lecture, to show the Evil Tendency of the Practice, and to persuade them to reform it; and it was urged on Heads of Families, that it should be a thing agreed upon among them to govern their Families, and keep their Children at home, at these times; and withal it was more privately moved, that they should meet together, the next Day, in their several Neighbourhoods, to know each other's Minds: which was accordingly done, and the Motion complied with throughout the Town. But Parents found little, or no occasion for the exercise of Government in the Case: the young People declared themselves convinced by what they had heard from the Pulpit, and were willing of themselves to comply with t•• Counsel that had been given: and it was immediately, and, I suppose, almost universally complied with; and there was a thorough Reformation of these Disorders thenceforward, which has continued ever since.