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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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She had several Days together a sweet sense of the Excellency and Loveliness of Christ in his Meekness, which disposed her continually to be repeating over these Words, which were sweet to her, MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART, MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART. She once expressed herself to one of her Sisters, to this purpose, that she had continued whole: days and whole Nights, in a constant ravishing View of the Glory of God and Christ, having enjoyed as much as her Life could bear. Once as her Brother was speaking of the dying Love of Christ, she told him that she had such a sense of it, that the mee• Mentioning it was ready to overcome her.
She had several Days together a sweet sense of the Excellency and Loveliness of Christ in his Meekness, which disposed her continually to be repeating over these Words, which were sweet to her, MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART, MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART. She once expres'd herself to one of her Sisters, to this purpose, that she had continued whole: days and whole Nights, in a constant ravishing View of the Glory of God and Christ, having enjoy'd as much as her Life could bear. Once as her Brother was speaking of the dying Love of Christ, she told him that she had such a sense of it, that the mee• Mentioning it was ready to overcome her.
Once, when she came to me, she told how that at such and such a time she thought she saw as much of God, and had as much Joy and Pleasure as was possible in this Life, and that yet afterwards God discovered himself yet far more abundantly, and she ⟨p. 61⟩saw the same things that she had seen before, yet more clearly, and in another and far more excellent and delightful manner, and was filled with a more exceeding Sweetness; she likewise gave me such an Account of the Sese the once had, from day to day, of the Glory of Christ, and of God, in his various Attributes, that it seemed to me she dwelt for Days together in a kind of beatific Vision of God; and seemed to have, as I thought, as immediate an Intercourse with him, as a Child with a Father: and at the same time, she appeared most remoe from any high Thought of herself, and of her own Sufficiency; but was like a little Child, and expressed great Desire to be instructed, telling me that she longed very often to come to me for Instruction, and wanted to live at my House, that I might tell her her Duty