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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 has discovered an uncommon Degree of a Spirit of Charity; particularly on the following Occasion: A ⟨p. 72⟩poor Man that lives in the Woods, had lately lost a Cow that the Family much depended on, and being at the House, he was relating his Misfortune, and telling of the Straits and Difficulties they were reduced to by i• ▪ She took much notice of it, and it wrought exceedingly on her Compassions: And after she had attentively heard him a while, she went away to her Father, who was in the Shop, and entreated him to give that Man a Cow: and told him that the poor Man had no Cow! that the Hunters or something else had killed his Cow! and entreated him to give him one of theirs. Her Father told her that they could not spare one. Then she entreated him to let him and his Family come and live at his House: And had much more talk of the same nature, whereby she manifested Bowels of Compassion to the Poor.
She has discover'd an uncommon Degree of a Spirit of Charity; particularly on the following Occasion: A ⟨p. 72⟩poor Man that lives in the Woods, had lately lost a Cow that the Family much depended on, and being at the House, he was relating his Misfortune, and telling of the Straits and Difficulties they were reduced to by i• ▪ She took much notice of it, and it wrought exceedingly on her Compassions: And after she had attentively heard him a while, she went away to her Father, who was in the Shop, and intreated him to give that Man a Cow: and told him that the poor Man had no Cow! that the Hunters or something else had kill'd his Cow! and entreated him to give him one of theirs. Her Father told her that they could not spare one. Then she entreated him to let him and his Family come and live at his House: And had much more talk of the same nature, whereby she manifested Bowels of Compassion to the Poor.