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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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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 ⟨p. 15⟩of the same Work amongst them, which prevailed till there was a general Awakening, and many Instances of Persons, who seemed to be remarkably converted. I also have lately heard that there has been something of the same Work at Woodbury.
But this Shower of divine Blessing has been yet more extensive: There was no small Degree of it in some parts of the Jerseys; as I was informed when I was at New York, (in a long Journey I took at that time of •he Year for my Health,) by some People of the Jerseys, whom I saw: Especially the Rev. Mr. William T••••nt, a Minister, who seemed to have such Things much at Heart, told me of a very great awakening of many in a Place called the Mountains, under the Ministry of one Mr. Cross; and of a very considerable Revival of Religion in another Place under the Ministry of his Brother the Rev. Mr. Gilbert Tenet; and also at another Place, under the Ministry of a very pious young Gentleman, a Dutch Minister, whose Name as I remember was Freelinghousa.