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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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Altho' great Fault was found with meddling with the Controversy in the Pulpit, by such a Person, and at that time, and tho' it was ridiculed by many elsewhere; yet it proved a Word spoken in season here; and was most evidently attended with a very remarkable Blessing of Heaven to the Souls of the People in this Town. They received thence a general satisfaction with respect to the main thing in question, which they had been in trembling doubts and concern about; and their Minds were engaged the more earnestly to seek that they might come to be accepted of God, and saved in the Way of the Gospel, which had been made evident to them to be the true and only Way. And th•n it was, in the latter part of December, that the Spirit of God began extraordinarily to set in, and wonderfully to work amongst us; and there were, very suddenly, one after another, five or six Persons, who were to all appearance savingly converted, and some of them wrought upon in a very remarkable manner.
Altho' great Fault was found with meddling with the Controversy in the Pulpit, by such a Person, and at that time, and tho' it was ridiculed by many elsewhere; yet it proved a Word spoken in season here; and was most evidently attended with a very remarkable Blessing of Heaven to the Souls of the People in this Town. They received thence a general satisfaction with respect to the main thing in question, which they had been in trembling doubts and concern about; and their Minds were engag'd the more earnestly to seek that they might come to be accepted of God, and saved in the Way of the Gospel, which had been made evident to them to be the true and only Way. And th•n it was, in the latter part of December, that the Spirit of God began extraordinarily to set in, and wonderfully to work amongst us; and there were, very suddenly, one after another, five or six Persons, who were to all appearance savingly converted, and some of them wrought upon in a very remarkable manner.
Particularly, I was surprised with the relation of a young Woman, who had been one of the greatest Company-Keepers in the whole Town: When she came to me, I had never heard that she was become in any wise serious, but by the Conversation I then had with her, it appeared to me, that what she gave an account of, was a glorious Work of God's infinite Power and sovereign Grace; and that God had given her a new Heart, truly broken and sanctified. I could not then doubt of it, and have seen much in my Acquaintance with her since to confirm in.