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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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Our public Praises were then greatly; enlivened; God was then served in our Psalmody, in some measure, in the Beauty of Holiness. It has been observable, that there has been scarce any part of Divine Worship, wherein good Men amongst us have had Grace so drawn forth, and their Hearts so lifted up in the Ways of God, as in singing his Praises: Our Congregation excelled all that ever I knew in the external Part of the Duty before, generally carrying regularly, and well, three Parts of Music, and the Women a Part by themselves: But now they were evidently wont to sing with unusual Elevation of Heart and Voice, which made the Duty pleasant indeed.
Our publick Praises were then greatly; enliven'd; God was then served in our Psalmody, in some measure, in the Beauty of Holiness. It has been observable, that there has been scarce any part of Divine Worship, wherein good Men amongst us have had Grace so drawn forth, and their Hearts so lifted up in the Ways of God, as in singing his Praises: Our Congregation excell'd all that ever I knew in the external Part of the Duty before, generally carrying regularly, and well, three Parts of Musick, and the Women a Part by themselves: But now they were evidently wont to sing with unusual Elevation of Heart and Voice, which made the Duty pleasant indeed.
In all Companies on other Days, on whatever Occasions Persons met together, Christ was to be heard of and seen in the midst of them. Our young People, when they met, were wont to spend the Time in talking of the Excellency and dying Love of JESUS CHRIST, the Gloriousness of the way of Salvation, the wonderful, free, and sovereign Grace of God, his glorious Work in the Conversion of a Soul, the Truth and Certainty of the great Things of God's Word, the Sweetness of the Views of his Perfections, &c. And even at Weddings, which formerly were merely occasions of Mirth and Jollity, there was now no discourse of any thing but the things of Religion, and no appearance of any, but spiritual Mirth.
In all Companies on other Days, on whatever Occasions Persons met together, Christ was to be heard of and seen in the midst of them. Our young People, when they met, were wont to spend the Time in talking of the Excellency and dying Love of JESUS CHRIST, the Gloriousness of the way of Salvation, the wonderful, free, and sovereign Grace of God, his glorious Work in the Conversion of a Soul, the Truth and Certainty of the great Things of God's Word, the Sweetness of the Views of his Perfections, &c. And even at Weddings, which formerly were meerly occasions of Mirth and Jollity, there was now no discourse of any thing but the things of Religion, and no appearance of any, but spiritual Mirth.