N03467:807
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Work that has now been wrought on Souls is evidently the same that was wrought in my venerable Predecessor's ⟨p. 55⟩Days; as I have had abundant Opportunity to know, having been in the Ministry here two Years with him, and so conversed with a considerable Number that my Grandfather thought to be savingly converted in that time; and having been particularly acquainted with the Experiences of many that were converted under his Ministry before. And I know no one of them, that in the least doubts of its being the same Spirit, and the same Work. Persons have now no otherwise been subject to Impressions on their Imaginations, than formerly: The Work is of the same nature, and has not been attended with any extraordinary Circumstances, excepting such as are analogous to the extraordinary degree of it before described. And God's People, that were formerly converted, have now partook of the same Shower of divine Blessing, in the renewing, strengthening, edifying Influences of the Spirit of God, that others have in his converting Influences; and the Work here has also been plainly the same with that, which has been wrought in those of other Places that have been mentioned, as partaking of the same Blessing I have particularly conversed with Persons about their Experiences that belong to all parts of the County, and in various parts of Connecticut, where a religious Concern has lately appeared; and have been informed of the Experiences of many others by their own Pastors.
The Work that has now been wrought on Souls is evidently the same that was wrought in my venerable Predecessor's ⟨p. 55⟩Days; as I have had abundant Opportunity to know, having been in the Ministry here two Years with him, and so conversed with a considerable Number that my Grandfather thought to be savingly converted in that time; and having been particularly acquainted with the Experiences of many that were converted under his Ministry before. And I know no one of them, that in the least doubts of its being the same Spirit, and the same Work. Persons have now no otherwise been subject to Impressions on their Imaginations, than formerly: The Work is of the same nature, and has not been attended with any extraordinary Circumstances, excepting such as are analogous to the extraordinary degree of it before described. And God's People, that were formerly converted, have now partook of the same Shower of divine Blessing, in the renewing, strengthening, edifying Influences of the Spirit of God, that others have in his converting Influences; and the Work here has also been plainly the same with that, which has been wrought in those of other Places that have been mentioned, as partaking of the same Blessing I have particularly conversed with Persons about their Experiences that belong to all parts of the County, and in various parts of Connecticut, where a religious Concern has lately appear'd; and have been inform'd of the Experiences of many others by their own Pastors.