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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 is a very great variety as to the Degree of Fear and Trouble that Persons are exercised with, before they obtain any comfortable Evidences of Pardon and Acceptance with God: some are from the beginning carried on with abundantly more Encouragement and Hope than others: some have had ten times less trouble of Mind than others, in whom yet the Issue seems to be the same. Some have had such a Sense of the Displeasure of God, and the great Danger they were in of Damnation, that they could not sleep at Nights; and many have said that when they have laid down, the Thoughts of sleeping in such a Condition have been frightful to them, and they have scarcely been free from Terror while they have been asleep, and they have awaked with Fear, Heaviness, and Distress still abiding on their Spirits. It has been very common, that the deep and fixed Concern that has been on Persons ⟨p. 21⟩Minds, has had a painful Influence on their Bodies, and had given Disturbance to animal Nature.
There is a very great variety as to the Degree of Fear and Trouble that Persons are exercised with, before they obtain any comfortable Evidences of Pardon and Acceptance with God: some are from the beginning carried on with abundantly more Encouragement and Hope than others: some have had ten times less trouble of Mind than others, in whom yet the Issue seems to be the same. Some have had such a Sense of the Displeasure of God, and the great Danger they were in of Damnation, that they could not sleep at Nights; and many have said that when they have laid down, the Thoughts of sleeping in such a Conditon have been f•ightful to them, and they have scarcely been free from Terrour while they have been asleep, and they have awaked with Fear, Heaviness, and Distress still abiding on their Spirits. It has been very common, that the deep and fixed Concern that has been on Persons ⟨p. 21⟩Minds, has had a painful Influence on their Bodies, and had given Disturbance to animal Nature.