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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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Those that, while under legal Convictions, have had the greatest Terrors, have not always obtained the greatest Light and Comfort; no• have they always Light most suddenly communicated; but yet, I think, the time of Conversion has generally been most sensible in such Persons. Oftentimes, the first sensible Change after the Extremity of Terrors, is a Calmness, and then the Light gradually comes in; small Glimpses at first, after their midnight Darkness, and a word or two of Comfort, as it were softly spoken to 'em; they have a little Taste of the Sweetness of divine Grace, 'and the Love of a Saviour, when Terror and Distress of Conscience begins to be turned into an humble, meek Sense of their own Unworthiness before God; and there is felt inwardly, perhaps, some Disposition to praise God; and after a little while the Light comes in more clearly and powerfully. But yet, I think more frequently, great Terrors have been followed with more sudden and great Light, and Comfort; when the Sinner seems to be as it were subdued and brought to a Calm, from a kind of Tumult of Mind, then God lets in an extraordinary Sense of his great Mercy thro' a Redeemer.
Those that, while under legal Convictions, have had the greatest Terrors, have not always obtain'd the greatest Light and Comfort; no• have they always Light most suddenly communicated; but yet, I think, the time of Conversion has generally been most sensible in such Persons. Oftentimes, the first sensible Change after the Extremity of Terrors, is a Calmness, and then the Light gradually comes in; small Glimpses at first, after their midnight Darkness, and a word or two of Comfort, as it were softly spoken to 'em; they have a little Taste of the Sweetness of divine Grace, 'and the Love of a Saviour, when Terror and Distress of Conscience begins to be turned into an humble, meek Sense of their own Unworthiness before God; and there is felt inwardly, perhaps, some Disposition to praise God; and after a little while the Light comes in more clearly and powerfully. But yet, I think more frequently, great Terrors have been followed with more sudden and great Light, and Comfort; when the Sinner seems to be as it were subdued and brought to a Calm, from a kind of Tumult of Mind, then God lets in an extraordinary Sense of his great Mercy thro' a Redeemer.