“Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly had been to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension. This grace that appeared ineffably excellent with an excellency great enough to swallow up all thought and conception… and I continued in this state near as I can judge an hour; which kept me the greater part of the time in a flood of tears and weeping aloud. I felt an ardency of soul to be full of Christ alone, to love him with a holy and pure love; to trust in him; to live upon him; to serve and follow him; and to be perfectly made pure with a divine and heavenly purity. I have, several other times, had views very much of the same nature, and which have had the same affects.” Jonathan Edwards
