 | Julius H. Rubin - 1994 - 321 pàgines
...darkness.122 Edwards concludes his defense of Sarah Edwards's evangelical piety by the exclamation, "Now if such things are enthusiasm, and the fruits of a...brain, let my brain be evermore possessed of that happy distemper!"123 Edwards's two final justifications of what Goen calls the "emotional extravagances"124... | |
 | James Innell Packer - 1994 - 372 pàgines
...into which all the saints of God are led, more or less deeply, by the reviving work of the Holy Ghost. 'If such things are enthusiasm, and the fruits of a distempered brain,' writes Edwards with fine irony, 'let my brain be evermore possessed of that happy distemper!' Such... | |
 | Laura Henigman - 1999 - 256 pàgines
...others. In the notable passage that for Edwards can only be described as an outburst, he cries, "Now if such things are enthusiasm, and the fruits of a...distempered brain, let my brain be evermore possessed by that happy distemper! If this be distraction, I pray God that the world of mankind may be all seized... | |
 | George M. Marsden - 2004 - 637 pàgines
...of true grace, he concluded, rhapsodically: “Now ifsuch things are enthusiasm, and the fruits ofa distempered brain, let my brain be evermore possessed of that happy distemper! If this be distraction, I pray God that the world of mankind may be all seized with this benign, meek,... | |
 | Thomas S. Kidd - 2008 - 412 pàgines
...demonstrated love, goodness, and holiness in abundance. "If such things are enthusiasm," he concluded, "and the fruits of a distempered brain, let my brain be evermore possessed of that happy distemper!"41 In her own account of these transports, Sarah Edwards emphasized bodily manifestations... | |
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Now if such things are enthusiasm, and the fruits of a distempered brain, let my brain be evermore possessed of that happy distemper ! If this be distraction, I pray God that the world of mankind may be all seized with this benign, meek, beneficent, beatifical,... 
