the glory of the way of
salvation, the wonderful, free, and sovereign grace of God, His glorious
work in the conversion of a soul, the truth and certainty of the great
things of God's word, the sweetness of the views of His perfections,
etc. And even at weddings, which formerly were mere occasions of mirth
and jollity, there was now no discourse of any thing but religion, and
no appearance of any but spiritual mirth. Those amongst us who had been
formerly converted, were greatly enlivened, and renewed with fresh and
extraordinary incomes of the Spirit of God; though some much more than
others, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Many who before
had labored under difficulties about their own state, had now their
doubts removed by more satisfying experience, and more clear discoveries
of God's love.

When this work first appeared and was so extraordinarily carried on
amongst us in the winter, others round about us seemed not to know what
to make of it. Many scoffed at and ridiculed it; and some compared what
we called conversion, to certain distempers. But it was very observable
of many, who occasionally came amongst us from abroad with disregardful
hearts, that what they saw here cured them of such a temper of mind.
Strangers were generally surprised to find things so much beyond what
they had heard, and were wont to tell others that the state of the town
could not be conceived of by those who had not seen it. The notice that
was taken of it by the people who came to town on occasion of t

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