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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 the Child had said this, she retired again into her Closet; and her Mother went over to her Brother's, who was next Neighbour; and when she came back, the Child, being come out of the Closet, meets her Mother with this cheerful Speech, I can find God now! referring to what she had before complained of that she could not find God. Then the Child spoke again and said, I love God! Her Mother asked her, how well she loved God, whether she loved God better than her Father and Mother, she said yes. Then she asked her whether she loved God better than her little Sister Rachel? She answered yes, better than any thing! Then her eldest Sister, referring to her saying she could find God now, asked her where she could find God. She answered in Heaven: Why, said she, have you been in Heaven? No, said the Child. By this it seems not to have been any Imagination of any thing seen with bodily Eyes, that she called God, when she said I can find God now. Her Mother asked her whether she was afraid of going to Hell, and that had made her cry. She answered, yes, I was; but now I shan't. Her Mother asked her whether she thought that God had given her Salvation; She answered, yes. Her Mother asked her, when. She answered, to day. She appeared all that Afternoon exceeding ⟨p. 68⟩cheerful and joyful. One of the Neighbours asked her, how she fe•• her self? She answered, I feel better than I did. The Neighbour asked her, what made her feel better. She answered, God makes me. That Evening as she lay a bed, she called one of her little Cousins to her that was present in the Room▪ as having something to say to him; and •hen he came, she told him, that Heaven was better than Earth. The next Day being Friday, •e• Mother asking her her Catechism, asked her what God made her for: She answered to serve him▪ and added, every body should serve God, and get an Interest in Christ.
After the Child had said this, she retired again into her Closet; and her Mother went over to her Brother's, who was next Neighbour; and when she came back, the Child, being come out of the Closet, meets her Mother with this chearful Speech, I can find God now! referring to what she had before complain'd of that she could not find God. Then the Child spoke again and said, I love God! Her Mother asked her, how well she loved God, whether she loved God better than her Father and Mother, she said yes. Then she asked her whether she loved God better than her little Sister Rachel? She answered yes, better than any thing! Then her eldest Sister, referring to her saying she could find God now, asked her where she could find God. She answered in Heaven: Why, said she, have you been in Heaven? No, said the Child. By this it seems not to have been any Imagination of any thing seen with bodily Eyes, that she called God, when she said I can find God now. Her Mother asked her whether she was afraid of going to Hell, and that had made her cry. She answered, yes, I was; but now I shan't. Her Mother asked her whether she thought that God had given her Salvation; She answered, yes. Her Mother asked her, when. She answered, to day. She appeared all that Afternoon exceeding