Edwards on Revivals: Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton, Massachusetts, A.D. 1735 : Also, Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England, 1742, and the Way in which it Ought to be Acknowledged and Improved |
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Page xiv
... carry trembling to the hearts of those that stand aloof from revivals , because they are carried on in a way which does not exactly coincide with their views , he next shows the blessedness that must necessarily attend a hearty co ...
... carry trembling to the hearts of those that stand aloof from revivals , because they are carried on in a way which does not exactly coincide with their views , he next shows the blessedness that must necessarily attend a hearty co ...
Page xv
... carry it to cextremes ; and that the errors of its friends and promoters furnish him with his greatest advantage . It is a great mistake for Christians to think , that even in the seasons of their highest spiritual enjoyment , they are ...
... carry it to cextremes ; and that the errors of its friends and promoters furnish him with his greatest advantage . It is a great mistake for Christians to think , that even in the seasons of their highest spiritual enjoyment , they are ...
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... carry on their secular business . Other discourse than of the things of religion would scarcely be tolerated in any company . The minds of people were wonderfully taken off from the world ; it was treated among us as a thing of very ...
... carry on their secular business . Other discourse than of the things of religion would scarcely be tolerated in any company . The minds of people were wonderfully taken off from the world ; it was treated among us as a thing of very ...
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... carried on in a most astonishing manner , and increased more and more ; souls did , as it were , come by flocks to Jesus Christ . From day to day , for many months together , might be seen evident instances of sinners brought " out of ...
... carried on in a most astonishing manner , and increased more and more ; souls did , as it were , come by flocks to Jesus Christ . From day to day , for many months together , might be seen evident instances of sinners brought " out of ...
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... carrying regularly and well three parts of music , and the women a part by them- selves ; but now they were evidently ... carried on among us in the winter , others round about us , seemed not to know what to make of it ; and there were ...
... carrying regularly and well three parts of music , and the women a part by them- selves ; but now they were evidently ... carried on among us in the winter , others round about us , seemed not to know what to make of it ; and there were ...
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Page 395 - Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Page 199 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page xxvii - For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Page 283 - Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Page 406 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: and the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 187 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 220 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 285 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 285 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 202 - ... spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.