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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...

spirit”; and Prov. 12:26, that “the righteous is more excellent than his neighbor.” We may from this doctrine see the truth of these texts. Hence ’tis greatly to be looked at persons, in order to determine whether they are true and real saints, to inquire what spirit they are of.4 To determine persons’ condition, it should not so much be inquired what profession they make, and how they pretend, and how they talk, and what stories they tell of themselves, as what spirit they savor of. They give the
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