The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two /* Styles */.book-content h1 { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in; page-break-before: always; font-size: large; text-transform: uppercase; } .book-content h2 { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: large; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 4.0pt; font-weight: bold; } .book-content h3 { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; text-autospace: none; font-size: medium; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 4.0pt; font-weight: bold; } .book-content h4 { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: medium; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; } .book-content h5 { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; font-size: x-small; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; } .book-content h6 { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in; font-size: xx-small; text-transform: uppercase; } .book-content .Centered { margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in; font-size: x-small; } .book-content .sectionHead { font-variant: small-caps; } SECOND PAPER. Some gloomy and desponding thoughts of a soul under convictions of sin, and concern for its eternal salvation. 1. I believe my case is singular, that none ever had so many strange and different thoughts and feelings as I. 2. I have been concerned much longer than many others I have known, or concerning whom I have read, who have been savingly converted, and yet I am left. 3. I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. 4. I never shall be converted, without stronger convictions, and greater terrors of conscience. 5. I do not aim at the glory of God in any thing I do, and therefore I cannot hope for mercy. 6. I do not see the evil nature of sin, nor the sin of my nature; and therefore I am discouraged. 7. The more I strive, the more blind and hard my heart is, and the worse I grow continually. 8. I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I. 9. I fear I am not elected, and therefore must perish. 10. I fear the day of grace is past with me. 11. I fear I have committed the unpardonable sin. 12. I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.