...public assemblies were then beautiful; the congregation was alive in God's service, every one earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to...and distress, others with joy and love, others with pit) and concern for the souls of their neighbors. This seems to have been a very extraordinary dispensation...

...public assemblies 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 minister as thev came from his mouth ; the assembly in general were, from time to time, in tears while the word...

...public assemblies were then beautiful , the congregation was alive in God's service, every one earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to...of the minister as they came from his mouth ; the people assembled were in general from time to time in tears, while the word was preached ; some weeping...

...public assemblies were then beautiful; the congregation was alive in God's service, every one earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to...others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbours. Our public praises were then greatly enlivened; God was then served in our psalmody, in...

...public assemblies were then beautiful. The congregation was alive in God's service. Everyone earnestly intent on the public worship. Every hearer eager to...others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbours. Jonathan Edwards: Works, London 1840, Vol I, p. 348. There, then, I have given you a rough...

...comparable difficulties, attendance and involvement in the public worship also picked up noticeably, with "every hearer eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth." Even on weekdays, Edwards received unaccustomed attention: "the place of resort was now altered, it...

...alive in God's service, everyone earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to drink the words of the minister as they came from his mouth....with joy and love, others with pity and concern for their neighbors. There were many instances of persons that came from abroad, on visits or on business....

...old, and outhursts of enthusiasm in worship, "some weeping with sorrow and distress, others with ioy and love, others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighhors" 1W/E4.157-581. Edwards struggled to hoth defend and analyze this eruption in A Faithful...

...tokens of God's presence in almost every house . . . God's day was a delight . . . everyone earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to...words of the minister as they came from his mouth '7 Emanating from Northampton, this new spirit touched almost every community in the Connecticut River...

...religious topics achieved its most public expression during worship services, when the auditors were "eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth" and openly displayed intense emotion over their own or others' spiritual states. Edwards identifies...