of God's Holy Spirit have also
been very remarkable on children in some other places; particularly at
Sunderland, South Hadley, and the west part of Suffield. There are
several families in this town who are all hopefully pious. Yea, there
are several numerous families, in which, I think, we have reason to hope
that all the children are truly godly, and most of them lately become
so. There are very few houses in the whole town, into which salvation
has not lately come, in one or more instances. There are several
Negroes, who from what was seen in them then, and what is discernible in
them since, appear to have been truly born again in the late remarkable
season.
God has also seemed to have gone out of His usual way, in the quickness
of His work, and the swift progress His Spirit has made in His
operations on the hearts of many. It is wonderful that persons should be
so suddenly and yet so greatly changed. Many have been taken from a
loose and careless way of living, and seized with strong convictions of
their guilt and misery, and in a very little time old things have passed
away, and all things have become new with them.
God's work has also appeared very extraordinary in the degrees of His
influences; in the degrees both of awakening and conviction, and also of
saving light, love, and joy, that many have experienced. It has also
been very extraordinary in the extent of it, and its being so swiftly
propagated from town to town. I
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