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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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At the last time on Wednesday Morning, while in the Enjoyment of a spiritual View of Christ's Glory and Fullness, her Soul was filled with Distress for Christless Persons, to consider with a miserable Condition they were in: and she felt in herself a strong Inclination immediately to go forth to warn Sinners; and proposed it the next Day to her Brother to assist her in going from house to house; but her Brother restrained her, by telling her of the unsuitableness of such a Method. She told one of her Sisters that Day, that she loved all Mankind, but especially the People of God. Her Sister asked her why she loved all Mankind? She replied because God had made them. After this there happened to come into the Shop where she was at work, three Persons that were thought to have been lately converted; her seeing them as they stepped in one after another into the Door, so affected her, and so drew forth her love to them, that it overcame her, and she almost fainted: And when they began to talk of the things of Religion, it was more than she could bear; they were obliged to cease on that account. It was a very frequent thing with her to be overcome with a flow of Affection to them that she thought Godly, in Conversation with them, and sometimes only at the Sight of them.
At the last time on Wednesday Morning, while in the Enjoyment of a spiritual View of Christ's Glory and Fulness, her Soul was filled with Distress for Christless Persons, to consider with a miserable Condition they were in: and she felt in herself a strong Inclination immediately to go forth to warn Sinners; and proposed it the next Day to her Brother to assist her in going from house to house; but her Brother restrain'd her, by telling her of the unsuitableness of such a Method. She told one of her Sisters that Day, that she loved all Mankind, but especially the People of God. Her Sister asked her why she loved all Mankind? She reply'd because God had made them. After this there happen'd to come into the Shop where she was at work, three Persons that were thought to have been lately converted; her seeing them as they step'd in one after another into the Door, so affected her, and so drew forth her love to them, that it overcame her, and she almost fainted: And when they began to talk of the things of Religion, it was more than she could bear; they were obliged to cease on that account. It was a very frequent thing with her to be overcome with a flow of Affection to them that she thought Godly, in Conversation with them, and sometimes only at the Sight of them.