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Jonathan Edwards achieved the greatest sustained mastery of the sermon form between January 1734 and December 1738—a time in which he also kindled his first revival. The Northampton revival spread to neighboring towns and villages, as did Edwards’ renown. And the sermons of these years exhibit not only splendid rhetoric but also figural intricacies and tonal nuances that reveal his maturity as a...

people are miserable, but that people whose God is the Lord. The world is divided into two societies: there are the people of God, the little flock of Jesus Christ, that company that we read of. Rev. 14:4, “These are they, which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins: these are they, which follow the Lamb wither soever he goeth: these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God, and to the Lamb.” And there are those that belong to the kingdom of darkness; that are without
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