to be heard of, and seen in the midst of them. Our
young people, when they met, were wont to spend the time in talking of
the excellency and dying love of Jesus Christ, 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 i