Narrative of Many Surprising Conversions in Northampton and Vicinity, Written in 1736, Together with Some Thoughts on the Revival in New England Written in 1740 ... |
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... heaven . These awakenings , when they have first seized on persons , have had two effects . One was , that they have brought them immediately to quit their sinful practices , and the looser sort have been brought to forsake and dread ...
... heaven . These awakenings , when they have first seized on persons , have had two effects . One was , that they have brought them immediately to quit their sinful practices , and the looser sort have been brought to forsake and dread ...
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... heaven , to have it by their own righteousness , or in any other way than as bestowed by free grace , and for Christ's sake alone . They speak much of the inexpressibleness of what they experience , how their words fail , so that they ...
... heaven , to have it by their own righteousness , or in any other way than as bestowed by free grace , and for Christ's sake alone . They speak much of the inexpressibleness of what they experience , how their words fail , so that they ...
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... heavens and earth , appear as it were with a cast of divine glory and sweet- ness upon them . The sweetest joy that these good peo- ple amongst us express , though it include in it a delight- ful sense of the safety of their own state ...
... heavens and earth , appear as it were with a cast of divine glory and sweet- ness upon them . The sweetest joy that these good peo- ple amongst us express , though it include in it a delight- ful sense of the safety of their own state ...
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... heaven upon earth for all that . She used sometimes to say to her sister , under her extreme sufferings : It is good to be so ! Her sister once asked her , why she said so ? Why , says she , because God would have it so : It is best ...
... heaven upon earth for all that . She used sometimes to say to her sister , under her extreme sufferings : It is good to be so ! Her sister once asked her , why she said so ? Why , says she , because God would have it so : It is best ...
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... heaven . Why , said she , have you been in heaven ? No , said the child . By this it seems not to have been any imagin- ation of any thing seen with bodily eyes that she called God , when she said I can find God now . Her mother asked ...
... heaven . Why , said she , have you been in heaven ? No , said the child . By this it seems not to have been any imagin- ation of any thing seen with bodily eyes that she called God , when she said I can find God now . Her mother asked ...
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Page 343 - 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 316 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 240 - 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 158 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 323 - Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Page 150 - 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 162 - Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Page 151 - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Page 353 - 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 311 - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.