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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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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
This remarkable pouring out of the Spirit of God, which thus extended from one end to the other of this County, was not confin'd 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
There was also the last Spring and Summer a wonderful Work of God carried on at Coventry under the Ministry of the Rev. Mr. Meacham: I had opportunity to converse with some of Coventry People, who gave me a very remarkable Account of the surprising Change that appeared in the most rude and vicious Persons there. The like was also very great at the same time in a Part of Lebanon, called the Crank, where the Rev. Mr. Wheelock, a young Gentleman is lately settled: And there has been much of the same at Durham, under the Ministry of the Rev. Mr. Chancy; and to appearance no small Ingathering of Souls there And likewise amongst many of the young People in the first Precinct in Stratford, under the Ministry of the Rev. Mr. Gould;