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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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As what other Towns heard of and found in this, was a great means of awakening them; so our hearing ⟨p. 13⟩of such a swift, and extraordinary Propagation, and Extent of this Work, did doubtless for a time serve to uphold the Work amongst us. The continual News kept alive the talk of Religion, and did greatly quicken and rejoice the Hearts of God's People, and much awakened those that looked on themselves as still left behind, and made them the more earnest that they also might share in the great Blessing that others had obtained.
As what other Towns heard of and found in this, was a great means of awakening them; so our hearing ⟨p. 13⟩of such a swift, and extraordinary Propagation, and Extent of this Work, did doubtless for a time serve to uphold the Work amongst us. The continual News kept alive the talk of Religion, and did greatly quicken and rejoice the Hearts of God's People, and much awaken'd those that looked on themselves as still left behind, and made them the more earnest that they also might share in the great Blessing that others had obtain'd.
This remarkable pouring out of the Spirit of God, which thus extended from one end to the other of this County, was not confined to it, but many Places in Connecticut, have partook in the same Mercy: As for instance, the first Parish in Windsor, under the pastoral Care of the Rev. Mr. Marsh was thus blest about the same time, as we in Northampton, while we had no Knowledge of each other's Circumstances: There has been a very great Ingathering of Souls to Christ in that Place, and something Considerable of the same Work began after wards, in East Windsor, my honoured Father's Parish, which has in times past, been a Place favoured with Mercies of this nature, above any on this western side of New England, excepting Northampton; there having been four or five Seasons of the pouring out of the Spirit to the general awakening of the People there, since my Father's Settlement amongst them