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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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It has heretofore been looked on as a strange Thing, when any have seemed to be savingly wrought upon, and remarkably changed in their Childhood; but now I suppose, near thirty were to Appearance so wrought upon between 10 and 14 Years of Age, and two between 9 and 10, and one of about 4 years of Age; and because I suppose this last will be most difficultly believed, I will hereafter give a particular Account of it. The Influences of God's Spirit have also been very remarkable on Children in some other Places, particu•••ly at Sunderland and South-Hadley, and the West part of Suffield. There are several Families in this Town that are all hopefully pious; yea, there are several numerous Families, in which, I think we have reason to hope that all the Children are truly godly, and most of them lately become so: And there are very few Houses in the whole Town, into which Salvation has not lately come, in one or more Instances. There are several Negroes, that from what was seen in them then, and what is discernible in them since, appear to have been truly born again in the late remarkable Season.
It has heretofore been looked on as a strange Thing, when any have seem'd to be savingly wrought upon, and remarkably changed in their Childhood; but now I suppose, near thirty were to Appearance so wrought upon between 10 and 14 Years of Age, and two between 9 and 10, and one of about 4 years of Age; and because I suppose this last will be most difficultly believed, I will hereafter give a particular Account of it. The Influences of God's Spirit have also been very remarkable on Children in some other Places, particu•••ly at Sunderland and South-Hadley, and the West part of Suffield. There are several Families in this Town that are all hopefully pious; yea, there are several numerous Families, in which, I think we have reason to hope that all the Children are truly godly, and most of them lately become so: And there are very few Houses in the whole Town, into which Salvation has not lately come, in one or more Instances. There are several Negroes, that from what was seen in them then, and what is discernable in them since, appear to have been truly born again in the late remarkable Season.