SURPRISING WORK OF GOD IN THE CONVERSION OF
MANY HUNDRED SOULS IN NORTHAMPTON,

MASSACHUSETTS, A. D. 1735.

ALSO,

TH O U G H TS

ON THE

REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN NEW ENGLAND, 1742,

AND THE WAY IN WHICH IT OUGHT TO BE ACKNOW-

LEDGED AND PROMOTED.

BY JONATHAN EDWARDS, A. M.,

PASTOR OF THE CHURCII OF CHRIST IN NORTHAMPTON; AFTERWARDS PRESIDENT OF

NASSAU HALL COLLEGE, PRINCETON, N. J.

WITH

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, AND A FULL GENERAL INDEX,

PREPARED BY THE PRESENT EDITOR.

NEW YORK:

DUNNING & SPALDING.

M.L.

TIIE NEW YORK

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“ Entered, according to act of congress, in the year 1832, by Charles Spalding, in the
clerk's office of the southern district of New York."

SLEIGHT AND ROBINSON, PRINTERS.

FaithfuL NARRATIVE of the Surprising Work, &c.

Preface by Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse,

Preface by the Boston Ministers,

Testimony of Ministers in Hampshire county,

Chap. I. Introductory statement,

Chap. II. The manner of conversion various, yet bearing a great

resemblance,

Chap. III. Of remarkable impressions on the imagination,

Chap. IV. The work farther illustrated in particular instances,

Chap. V. Defects and decline of the work,

"THOUGHTS ON THE REVIVAL, &c.

Preface,

Part I. Showing that the extraordinary work that has of late been

going on in this land, is a glorious work of God,

Sect. 1. We should not judge of this work à priori, but by its

effects,

Sect. 2. We should judge by the rule of scripture,

Sect. 3. We should not judge of the whole by a part,

Sect. 4. The nature of the work in general,

Sect. 5. The nature of the work in a particular instance,

Sect. 6. This is a glorious work of God,

Part II. Showing the obligations that all are under to acknowledge,

rejoice in, and promote this work, and the great danger of

the contrary,

Sect. 1. The danger of lying still and keeping long silence respecting

any remarkable work of God,

Sect. 2. The latter day glory is probably to begin in America,

Sect. 3. The danger of not acknowledging, and encouraging, and

especially of deriding, this work,

Sect. 4. Obligations of rulers, ministers, and all sorts, to promote this

work,

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