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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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After this her Illness increased upon her: and once after she had before spent the greater Part of the Night in extreme Pain, she waked out of a little sleep with these Words in her Heart and Mouth; I am willing to suffer for Christ's sake, I am willing to spend and be spent for Christ's sake; I am willing to spend my Life, even my very Life for Christ's sake! And tho' she had an extraordinary Resignation, with respect to Life or Death, yet the Thoughts of Dying were exceeding sweet to her. At a time when her Brother was reading in Job, concerning Worms feeding on the dead Body, she appeared with a pleasant Smile; and being enquired of about it, she said, it was sweet to her to think of her being in such Circumstances. At another time, when her Brother mentioned to her the Danger there seemed to be that the Illness she then laboured under, might be an Occasion of her Death, it filled her with Joy that almost overcame her. At another time, when she met a Company following a ⟨p. 63⟩Corpse to the Grave, she said, it was sweet to her to think, that they would in a little time follow her in like manner.
After this her Illness increased upon her: and once after she had before spent the greater Part of the Night in extreme Pain, she waked out of a little sleep with these Words in her Heart and Mouth; I am willing to suffer for Christ's sake, I am willing to spend and be spent for Christ's sake; I am willing to spend my Life, even my very Life for Christ's sake! And tho' she had an extraordinary Resignation, with respect to Life or Death, yet the Thoughts of Dying were exceeding sweet to her. At a time when her Brother was reading in Job, concerning Worms feeding on the dead Body, she appear'd with a pleasant Smile; and being enquired of about it, she said, it was sweet to her to think of her being in such Circumstances. At another time, when her Brother mention'd to her the Danger there seem'd to be that the Illness she then labour'd under, might be an Occasion of her Death, it fill'd her with Joy that almost overcame her. At another time, when she met a Company following a ⟨p. 63⟩Corpse to the Grave, she said, it was sweet to her to think, that they would in a little time follow her in like manner.