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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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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 ⟨p. 59⟩Christ, and his Sufficiency to satisfy for the Sins of the whole World. She then thought of that Expression; 'Tis a pleasant thing for the Eyes to behold the Sun; which Words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ. By these things her Mind was led into such Contemplations and Views of Christ, as filled her exceeding full of Joy. She told her Brother in the Morning that she had seen (i e. in realizing Views by Faith) Christ the last Night, and, that she had really thought that she had not Knowledge enough to be converted; but, says she, God can make it quite easy! On Monday she felt all day a constant Sweetness in her Soul. She had a Repetition of the same Discoveries of Christ three Mornings together, that she had on Monday Morning, and much in the same manner, at each time waking a little before day; but brighter and brighter every time.
On the Sabbath day she was so ill that her Friends thought it not best that she should go to publick Worship, of which she seem'd 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 wondred 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