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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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While her Mind was in this Posture, her Heart, she said, seemed to fly to the Minister for Refuge, hoping that he could give her some Relief. She came the same Day to her Brother, with the Countenance of a Person in distress, expostulating with him, why he had not told her more of her Sinfulness, and earnestly enquiring of him what she should do. She seemed that Day to feel in herself an Enmity against the Bible, which greatly affrighted her. Her sense of her own exceeding Sinfulness continued increasing from Thursday till Monday; and she gave this account of i•, that it had been an Opinion, which till now she had entertained, that she was not guilty of Adam's, Sin, nor any way concerned in it, because she was not active in it; but that now she saw she was guilty of that Sin, and all over defiled by it; and that the Sin which she brought into the World with her, was alone sufficient to condemn her.
While her Mind was in this Posture, her Heart, she said, seem'd to fly to the Minister for Refuge, hoping that he could give her some Relief. She came the same Day to her Brother, with the Countenance of a Person in distress, expostulating with him, why he had not told her more of her Sinfulness, and earnestly enquiring of him what she should do. She seem'd that Day to feel in herself an Enmity against the Bible, which greatly affrighted her. Her sense of her own exceeding Sinfulness continued increasing from Thursday till Monday; and she gave this account of i•, that it had been an Opinion, which till now she had entertain'd, that she was not guilty of Adam's, Sin, nor any way concerned in it, because she was not active in it; but that now she saw she was guilty of that Sin, and all over defiled by it; and that the Sin which she brought into the World with her, was alone sufficient to condemn her.
On the Sabbath day she was so ill that her Friends thought it not best that she should go to public Worship, of which she seemed very desirous: But when she went to Bed on the Sabbath day Night, she took up a Resolution, that she would the next Morning go to the Minister, hoping to find some relief their. As she awaked on Monday Morning, a little before Day she wondered within herself at the Easiness and Calmness she felt in her Mind, which was of that kind which she never felt before; as she thought of this, such Words as these were in her Mind; The Words of the Lord are pure Words, Health to the Soul, and Marrow to the Bones: And then these Words came to her Mind, the Blood of Christ cleanses fro […] Sin; which re […] companied with a lively sense of […] of