...prayer." 31 [t is striking how much solitude there is in the Personal Narrative—in Edwards's fantasies of "being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ," in his "often walking alone in the woods and solitary places, for meditation, soliloquy, and prayer,"...

...calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things, would often of a sudden as it were,...

...somewhat diffidently, calling attention to the purely figurative nature of the language he has chosen. "The sense I had of divine things, would often of a sudden as it were, kindle up a sweet burning in my heart; an ardor of soul, that I know not how to express"...

...his own childhood, for example, he wrote in his autobiographical "Personal Narrative" that his sense of "divine things" would "often of a sudden kindle up, as it were, a sweet burning in my heart." By the nineteenth century, Anglo-American evangelicalism had inherited much of the Puritan spiritual...

...calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world, and a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of Divine things would often of a sudden as it were kindle...

...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...heart; an ardor of soul that I know not how to express. Not long after I first began to experience these things, I gave an account to my father of some things...

...secret places of my own in the woods, where I used to retire by myself. " He speaks of wanting to be "alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ." He spoke of "often walking alone in the woods and solitary places, for meditation, soliloquy, and prayer."...

...sweet abstraction of soul from all concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine tilings, would often of a sudden kindle up, as it were, a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of soul,...

...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations of being alone in the mountains,...mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapt andswallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things, would often of a tudden kindle up, as it...

...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision * * * * of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God." We read of such instances of the fruits of prayer, in the blessedness...