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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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Presently after this, there began to appear a remarkable Religious Concern at a little Village, belonging to the Congregation, Called Pascommuck, where a few Families were settled, at about three Miles distance from the main Body of the Town. At this place, a number of Persons seemed to be savingly wrought upon. In the April following, Anno 1734, there happened a very sudden and awful Death of a young Man, in the Bloom of his Youth; who being violently seized with a Pleurisy, and taken immediately very delirious, died in about two Days; which (together with what was preached publicly on that Occasion) much affected many young People. This was followed with another Death of a ⟨p. 6⟩young married Woman, who had been considerably exercised in Mind, about the Salvation of her Soul, before she was ill, and was in great Distress, in the beginning of her Illness; but seemed to have satisfying Evidences of God's saving Mercy to her, before her Death; so that she died very full of Comfort, in a most earnest and moving Manner warning, and counselling others. This seemed much to contribute to the solemnizing of the Spirits of many young Persons: and there began evidently to appear more of a Religious Concern on People's Minds.
Presently after this, there began to appear a remarkable Religious Concern at a little Village, belonging to the Congregation, Call'd Pascommuck, where a few Families were settled, at about three Miles distance from the main Body of the Town. At this place, a number of Persons seemed to be savingly wrought upon. In the April following, Anno 1734, there happen'd a very sudden and awful Death of a young Man, in the Bloom of his Youth; who being violently seized with a Pleurisy, and taken immediately very delirious, died in about two Days; which (together with what was preached publickly on that Occasion) much affected many young People. This was followed with another Death of a ⟨p. 6⟩young married Woman, who had been considerably exercised in Mind, about the Salvation of her Soul, before she was ill, and was in great Distress, in the beginning of her Illness; but seemed to have satisfying Evidences of God's saving Mercy to her, before her Death; so that she died very full of Comfort, in a most earnest and moving Manner warning, and counselling others. This seem'd much to contribute to the solemnizing of the Spirits of many young Persons: and there began evidently to appear more of a Religious Concern on People's Minds.