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the people here; and they have paid all due respect
to those who have been blest of God to be the instruments of it. Both
old and young have shown a forwardness to hearken not only to my
counsels, but even to my reproofs, from the pulpit.

A great part of the country have not received the most favorable
thoughts of this affair; and to this day many retain a jealousy
concerning it, and prejudice against it. I have reason to think that the
meanness and weakness of the instrument, that has been made use of in
this town, has prejudiced many against it; nor does it appear to me
strange that it should be so. But yet the circumstances of this great
work of God is analogous to other circumstances of it. God has so
ordered the manner of the work in many respects, as very signally and
remarkably to show it to be His own peculiar and immediate work; and to
secure the glory of it wholly to His almighty power, and sovereign
grace. And whatever the circumstances and means have been, and though we
are so unworthy, yet so hath it pleased God to work! And we are
evidently a people blessed of the Lord! For here, in this corner of the
world, God dwells, and manifests His glory.

Thus, Reverend Sir, 1 have given a large and particular account of this
remarkable affair; and yet, considering how manifold God's works have
been amongst us, it is but a very brief one. I should have sent it much
sooner, had I not been greatly hindered by illness in my family, and
also in my own person. It is probably much larger than you expected,
and, it may be, than you would have chosen. I thought that the
extraordinary nature of the thing, and the innumerable
misrepresentations which have gone abroad of it, many of which,
doubtless, have reached your ears, made it necessary that I should be
particular. B
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