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praise Him as they would, and they want to
have others help them in praising Him. They want to have every one
praise God, and are ready to call upon every thing to praise Him. They
express a longing desire to live to God's glory, and to do something to
His honor; but at the same time complain of their insufficiency and
barrenness; that they are poor and impotent creatures, can do nothing of
themselves, and are utterly insufficient to glorify their Creator and
Redeemer.

While God was so remarkably present amongst us by His Spirit, there was
no book so delightful as the Bible; especially the Book of Psalms, the
Prophecy of Isaiah, and the New Testament. Some, by reason of their love
to God's word, at times have been wonderfully delighted and affected at
the sight of a Bible; and then, also, there was no time so prized as the
Lord's day, and no place in this world so desired as God's house. Our
converts then remarkably appeared united in dear affection to one
another, and many have expressed much of that spirit of love which they
felt toward all mankind; and particularly to those who had been least
friendly to them. Never, I believe, was so much done in confessing
injuries, and making up differences, as the last year. Persons, after
their own conversion, have commonly expressed an exceeding great desire
for the conversion of others. Some have thought that they should be
willing to die for the conversion of any soul, though of one of the
meanest of their fellow-creatures, or of their worst enemies; and many
have, indeed, been in great distress with desires and longings for it.
This work of God had also a good effect to unite the people's affections
much to their minister.

There are some persons whom I have been acquainted with, but more
especially two, that belong to other towns, who have been swallowed up
exceedingly with a sense of the awful greatnes