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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 are some Persons that I have been acquainted with, but more especially two, that belong to other Towns, that have been swallowed up exceedingly with a Sense of the awful Greatness and Majesty of God; and both of them told me to this purpose, that if they in the time of it, had had the least Fear that they were not at at peace with this so great a God, they should instantly have died.
It is worthy to be remarked, that some Persons by their Conversion seem to be greatly helped as to their doctrinal Notions of Religion; it was particularly remarkable in one, who having been taken captive in his Childhood, was trained up in Canada, in the Popish Religion; and some Years since returned to this his native Place, and was in a measure brought off from Popery: but seemed very awkward and dull of receiving any true and clear Notion of the Protestant Scheme, till he was converted; and then he was remarkably altered in this respect.
It is worthy to be remarked, that some Persons by their Conversion seem to be greatly helped as to their doctrinal Notions of Religion; it was particulary remarkable in one, who having been taken captive in his Childhood, was train'd up in Canada, in the Popish Religion; and some Years since returned to this his native Place, and was in a measure brought off from Popery: but seem'd very awkward and dull of receiving any true and clear Notion of the Protestant Scheme, till he was converted; and then he was remarkably altered in this respect.
There is a vast difference, as has been observed in the Degree, and also in the particular Manner of Persons Experiences, both at, and after Conversion; some have Grace working more sensibly in one way, others in another. Some speak more fully of a Conviction of ⟨p. 49⟩