Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards: Selections from Their WritingsC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 368 pages |
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Page xviii
... grace in Northampton . " Having left the more or less common path of their boyhood , Edwards and Franklin as writers walked very different paths . Although the New England sermon of 1730 had lost some of its terrors , particularly its ...
... grace in Northampton . " Having left the more or less common path of their boyhood , Edwards and Franklin as writers walked very different paths . Although the New England sermon of 1730 had lost some of its terrors , particularly its ...
Page xxii
... grace , he thought - in his Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God , with the earnestness of a prophet , the observation of a psychologist , and the skill of a novelist . We need not look very deep xxii INTRODUCTION.
... grace , he thought - in his Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God , with the earnestness of a prophet , the observation of a psychologist , and the skill of a novelist . We need not look very deep xxii INTRODUCTION.
Page xxiii
... grace to understand the process . For over fifty years the Northampton congregation had been ruled by the iron will and creed of Solomon Stoddard . Though reaction had followed after his death , during Edwards ' tentative years , the ...
... grace to understand the process . For over fifty years the Northampton congregation had been ruled by the iron will and creed of Solomon Stoddard . Though reaction had followed after his death , during Edwards ' tentative years , the ...
Page xxvii
... grace sharing some of his felicity with some of his creatures.1 Beyond this Edwards could not go in his exaltation of the God who had overpowered him with splendor and majesty in his youth . Had he lived longer , he would have given his ...
... grace sharing some of his felicity with some of his creatures.1 Beyond this Edwards could not go in his exaltation of the God who had overpowered him with splendor and majesty in his youth . Had he lived longer , he would have given his ...
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... Grace , Dignity and Lustre to a gross corpulent Body ; and a competent Share of religious Horror thrown into the Countenance , with proper Distortions of the Face , and the Addition of a lank Head of Hair , or a long Wig and Band ...
... Grace , Dignity and Lustre to a gross corpulent Body ; and a competent Share of religious Horror thrown into the Countenance , with proper Distortions of the Face , and the Addition of a lank Head of Hair , or a long Wig and Band ...
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