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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 no one thing that I know of that God has made such a means of promoting his Work amongst us, as the News of others Conversion; in the awakening Sinners, and engaging them earnestly to seek the same Blessing, and in the quickening of Saints. Tho' I have thought that a Minister's declaring his Judgment about particular Persons Experiences might from these Things be ••stified, yet I am often signifying to my People how unable Man is to know another's Heart, and how unsafe it is depending merely on the Judgment of Ministers, or others, and have abundantly insisted on it with them that a manifestation of Sincerity in Fruits brought forth, is better than any manifestation they can make of it in Words alone, can be; and that without this, all Presences to spiritual Experiences are vain; as all my Congregation can witness. And the People in general, in this late extraordinary Time, have manifested an extraordinary Dread of being deceived, being exceeding fearful le•t they should build wrong, and some of them backward to receive Hope, even to a great Extreme.
There is no one thing that I know of that God has made such a means of promoting his Work amongst us, as the News of others Conversion; in the awakening Sinners, and engaging them earnestly to seek the same Blessing, and in the quickening of Saints. Tho' I have thought that a Minister's declaring his Judgment about particular Persons Experiences might from these Things be ••stified, yet I am often signifying to my People how unable Man is to know another's Heart, and how unsafe it is depending meerly on the Judgment of Ministers, or others, and have abundantly insisted on it with them that a manifestation of Sincerity in Fruits brought forth, is better than any manifestation they can make of it in Words alone, can be; and that without this, all Presences to spiritual Experiences are vain; as all my Congregation can witness. And the People in general, in this late extraordinary Time, have manifested an extraordinary Dread of being deceiv'd, being exceeding fearful le•t they should build wrong, and some of them backward to receive Hope, even to a great Extreme.