in accordance with some weird acceptance

spiritual and imaginary part; of which some who have not been well
affected to religion might take advantage.

There has been much talk in many parts of the country, as though the
people have symbolized with the Quakers, and the Quakers themselves have
been moved with such reports; and some came here, once and again, hoping
to find good waters to fish in, but without the least success, and have
left off coming. There have also been reports spread about the country,
as though the first occasion of so remarkable a concern was an
apprehension that the world was near to an end; which was altogether a
false report. Indeed, after this concern became so general and
extraordinary, as related, the minds of some were filled with
speculation what so great a dispensation of Divine Providence might
forbode; and some reports were heard from abroad, as though certain
divines and others thought the conflagration was nigh; but such reports
were never generally looked upon worthy of notice.

The work which has now been wrought on souls, is evidently the same that
was wrought in my venerable predecessor's days; as I have had abundant
opportunity to know, having been in the ministry here two years with
him, and so conversed with a considerable number whom my grandfather
thought to be savingly converted at that time; and having been
particularly acquainted with the experiences of many who were converted
under his ministry before. And I know no one of them, who in the least
doubts of its being the same Spirit and the same work. Persons have now
no otherwise been subject to impressions on their imaginations than
formerly: the work is of the same nature, and has not been attended with
any extraordinary circumstances, excepting such as are analogous to the
extraordinary degree of it before described. And God's people who were
formerly converted have now partaken of the same shower of divine
blessing-in the renewing, strengthening, edifying, influences of the



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