⚫ tolerated in any Company. The Minds of People were ' wonderfully taken off from the World, it was treated a 'mongst us as a Thing of very little Confequence: They • feem'd to follow their worldly Business, more as a Part of their Duty, than from any Difpofition they had to it; the • Temptation now feemed to lie on thatHand, to neglect worldly 'Affairs too much, and to spend too much Time in the im• mediate Exercise of Religion: Which Thing was exceed ingly mifreprefented by Reports that were spread in diftant • Parts of the Land, as tho' the People here had wholly thrown by all worldly Bufinefs, and betook themselves entirely to reading and praying, and fuch like religious Exercifes.

But altho' People did not ordinarily neglect their worldly Bufinefs; yet there then was the Reverse of what commonly is Religion was with all Sorts the great Concern, and the World was a Thing only by the by. The only " Thing in their View was to get the Kingdom of Heaven, and every one appeared preffing into it: The Engagedness ' of their Hearts in this great Concern cou'd not be hid, it appear'd in their very Countenances. It then was a dreadful 'Thing amongst us to lie out of Chrift, in Danger every Day of dropping into Hell; and what Perfons Minds were ' intent upon was to escape for their Lives, and to fly from the Wrath to come. All would eagerly lay hold of Oppor'tunities for their Souls; and were wont very often to meet together in private Houses for religiousPurposes: And fuch 'Meetings when appointed were wont greatly to be ' thronged.

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"There was scarcely a fingle Perfon in the Town, either or young, that was left unconcerned about the great Things of the eternalWorld. Those that were wont to be the vaineft, and loofeft, and those that had been moft difpofed to think, and fpeak flightly of vital and experimental Religion, were now generally fubject to greatAwakenings. And the Work of Converfion was carried on in a most aftonishing Manner, and increased more and more; Souls ' did as it were come by Flocks to Jefus Chrift. From Day to Day, for many Months together, might be feen evident 'Inftances of Sinners brought out of Darkness into marvelous Light, and delivered out of an horrible Pit, and from the miry Clay, and fet upon a Rock, with a new Song of Praise to God in their Mouths.

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This Work of God, as it was carried on, and the Num⚫ber of true Saints multiplied, foon made a glorious Altera⚫tion in the Town; so that in the Spring and Summer following, Anno 1735. the Town feemed to be full of the • Prefence of God: It never was fo full of Love, nor fo full of Joy; and yet fo full of Diftrefs, as it was then. There were remarkable Tokens of God'sPrefence in almost every • House. It was a Time of Joy in Families on the Account • of Salvation's being brought unto them; Parents rejoicing · over their Children as new born, and Husbands over their

Wives, and Wives over their Hufbands. The Goings of • God were then feen in his Sanctuary, God's Day was a • Delight, and his Tabernacles were amiable. Our publick Affemblies were then beautiful; the Congregation was alive ⚫ in God's Service, every one earnestly intent on the public Worship, every Hearer eager to drink in the Words of the Minifter as they came from his Mouth; the Affembly in general were from Time to Time, in Tears while the Word was preached; fome weeping with Sorrow and Dif• trefs, others with Joy and Love, others with Pity and Con• cern for the Souls of their Neighbours.

• Our public Praifes were then greatly enliven'd; God was then served in our Pfalmody, in fome Measure, in the • Beauty of Holiness. It has been obfervable, that there has been scarce any Part of divine Worship, wherein good Men ⚫ amongst us have had Grace fo drawn forth, and their Hearts fo lifted up in the Ways of God, as in finging his Praises : Our Congregation excell'd all that ever I knew in the ex⚫ternal Part of the Duty before, generally carrying regularly, and well, three Parts of Mufick, and the Women a Part by ⚫ themselves: But now they were evidently wont to fing with • unusual Elevation of Heart and Voice, which made theDuty pleasant indeed.

(To be finished, and go on with other Accounts in our next. )

Just Reprinted, and Sold by Kneeland and Green, Sinners in the Hands of an angry GOD. A Sermon

Preached at Enfield, July 8. 1741. At a Time of great Awaknings, and attended with remarkable Impreffions on many of the Hearers By JONATHAN EDWARDS, A. M. Paftor of the Church in Northampton.

Dr.Watt's in a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Prince, April 22.1742, fayꞌ, I think Mr. Edwards's Sermon on the Danger of the Unconverted, is one of the most terrible Reprefentations I ever read."

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Christian History;

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To be publish'd Weekly.

Saturday JUNE 18. 1743.

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[ Mr. EDWARDS's Account finished.]

'N all Companies on other Days, on whatever Occafions was Perfons met together, CHRIST was to be heard of and feen in the midst of them. Our young People, when they met, were wont to fpend the Time in talking of the Excellency and dying Love of JESUS CHRIST, the Glori⚫oufness of the Way of Salvation, the wonderful, free, and • fovereign Grace of God, his glorious Work in the Converfion of a Soul, the Truth and Certainty of the great Things of God's Word, the Sweetnefs of the Views of his Perfectiens, &c. And even at Weddings, which formerly were meerly Occafions of Mirth and Jollity, there was now no • Discourse of any thing but the Things of Religion, and no Appearance of any, but fpiritual Mirth.

• Those among us that had been formerly converted, were "greatly enliven❜d and renew'd with fresh and extraordinary • Incomes of the Spirit of God; tho' fome much more than • others, according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ: Many that before had laboured under Difficulties about their own State, had now their Doubts removed by more fatisfying Experience, and more clear Difcoveries of God's Love. [Revival of Religion in OTHER Towns and Villages in the County of Hampshire.]

When this Work first appeared, & was fo extraordinarily < carried on amongst us in the Winter, others round about 25 ⚫ feemed not to know what to make of it; & there were any that fcoffed at and ridiculed it; and fome compared what we called Converfion, to certain Distempers. But ma

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⚫ very obfervable of many, that occafionally came amongst us " from abroad, with difregardful Hearts, that what they faw here cured them of fuch a Temper of Mind: Strangers ⚫ were generally furprized to find Things fo much beyond what they had heard, and were wont to tell others that the State ⚫ of the Town could not be conceiv'd of by those that had not feen it. The Notice that was taken of it by the People • that came to Town on Occafion of the Court, that fat here in the beginning of March, was very obfervable. And thofe ⚫ that came from the Neighbourhood to our publick Lectures, • were for the most Part remarkably affected. Many that

came to Town, on one Occafion or other, had their Con• sciences fmitten,and awaken'd, & went home with wounded Hearts, and with those Impreffions that never wore off till • they had hopefully a favingIssue ; and those that before had ferious Thoughts, had their Awakenings&Convictions greatly increafed. And there were many Inftances of Perfons that came from abroad,on Vifits, or on Business, that had not been long here before to all Appearance they were favingly wro't upon, & partook of thatShower of divineBleffing that • God rained down here, and went home rejoicing; 'till at • Length the fame Work began evidently to appear and prevail in feveral other Towns in the County.

In the Month of March, the People in SOUTH-HADLEY ⚫ began to be feized with deep Concern about the Things of Religion; which very foon became univerfal: And the • Work of God has been very wonderful there; not much, • if any Thing, fhort of what it has been here, in Proportion to the Bignefs of the Place.

About the fame Time, it began to break forth in the • weft Part of SUFFIELD (where it has also been very great,} and it foon fpread into all parts of the Town.

It next appear'd at SUNDERLAND, and foon overspread the Town; and I believe was, for a Season, not less remarkable than it was here.

About the fame Time, it began to appear in a Part of • DEERFIELD, called GREEN-RIVER, and afterwards fill'd the Town, and there has been a glorious Work there.

It began alfo to be manifeft, in the fouth Part of HATFIELD, in a Place called the HILL, and after that the whole Town, in the fecond Week in April, feem'd to be feized, as it were at once, with Concern about the Things ⚫ of Religion; and the Work of God has been great there.

There has been alfo a very general Awakening at WEST SPRINGFIELD, and LONG-MEADOW,

And inENFIELD, there was for aTime no fmall Concern amongst some that before had been very loose Perfons.

About the fame Time that this appear'd at Enfield, the • Rev. Mr. Bull of WESTFIELD informed me, that there ⚫ had been a great Alteration there, and that more had been done in one Week there than in feven Years before.

Something of this Work likewife appeared in the first Precinct in SPRINGFIELD, principally in the North and • South Extremes of the Parish.

And in HADLEY old Town, there gradually appear'd fo much of a Work of God on Souls, as at another Time would have been thought worthy of much Notice.

For a bort Time there was alfo a very great and general 'Concern, of the like Nature, at NORTHFIELD.

And wherever this Concern appeared, it seem'd not to be in vain: But in every Place God brought faving Bleffings with him, and his Word attended with his Spirit (as we have all Reason to think) return'd not void. It might well be faid at that Time in all Parts of the County, Who are thefe that fly as a Cloud, and as Doves to their Windows? 'As what other Towns heard of and found in this, was a great Means of awakening them; fo our hearing of fuch a fwift, and extraordinary Propagation, and Extent of this 'Work, did doubtless for a Time ferve to uphold the Work › amongst us. The continual News kept alive the Talk of Religion, and did greatly quicken and rejoyce the Hearts ' of God's People, and much awaken'd thofe that looked on themselves as ftill left behind, and made them the more earneft that they alfo might share in the great Bleffing that others had obtain❜d.

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• This remarkable pouring out of the Spirit of God, which 'thus extended from one End to the other of this County, was not confin'd to it, but many Places in CONNECTICUT, have partook in the fame Mercy: As forInstance, the FIRST PARISH in WINDSOR, under the paftoral Care of the Rev. Mr. Marsh was thus blefs'd about the fame Time, as we in Northampton, while we had no Knowledge. of each 'other's Circumftances: There has been a very great Inga

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