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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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Something of this Work appeared in several other Towns in those Parts, as I was informed when I was there, the last Fall. And we have since been acquainted with something very remarkable of this nature at another Parish in Stratford called Ripton, under the pastoral Care of the Rev. Mr. Mills. And there was a considerable Revival of Religion last Summer at NewHaven old Town, as I was once and again informed by the Rev. Mr. Noyes the Minister there, and by others: And by a Letter which I very lately received from Mr Noyes, and also by Information we have had otherwise, this flourishing of Religion still continues, and has lately much increased: Mr. Noyes writes, that many this Summer have been added to the Church, and particularly mentions several young Persons that belong to the principal Families of that Town.
Something of this Work appeared in several other Towns in those Parts, as I was informed when I was there, the last Fall. And we have since been acquainted with something very remarkable of this nature at another Parish in Stratford call'd Ripton, under the pastoral Care of the Rev. Mr. Mills. And there was a considerable Revival of Religion last Summer at NewHaven old Town, as I was once and again informed by the Rev. Mr. Noyes the Minister there, and by others: And by a Letter which I very lately receiv'd from Mr Noyes, and also by Information we have had otherwise, this flourishing of Religion still continues, and has lately much increased: Mr. Noyes writes, that many this Summer have been added to the Church, and particularly mentions several young Persons that belong to the principal Families of that Town.
There has been a degree of the same Work at a Part of Guilford; and very considerable at Mansfield, under the Ministry of the Rev. Mr. Eleazer Williams; and an unusual religious Concern at Tolland; and something of it at Hebron, and Bolton. There was also no small Effusion of the Spirit of God in the North Parish in Preston, in the eastern Part of Connecticut, which I was informed of, and saw something of it, when I was the last Autumn at the House, and in the Congregation of the Rev. Mr. Lord, the Minister there; who, with the Rev. Mr. Owen of Groton, came up hither in May, the last Year, on purpose to see the Work of God here; and having heard various and contradictory Accounts of it, were careful when they were here to inform, and satisfy themselves; and to that end particularly conversed with many of our People; which they declared to be entirely to their Satisfaction, and that the one half had not been told them, nor could be told them. Mr. Lord told me that, when he got home, he informed his Congregation of what he had seen, and that they were greatly affected with it, and that it proved the beginning