6. Yea, _the grace of God which bringeth salvation_, present salvation from inward and outward sin, hath abounded of late years in such a _degree_ as neither we nor our fathers had known. How _extensive_ is the change which has been wrought on the minds and lives of the people! Know ye not that the sound is gone forth into all the land? That there is scarce a city or considerable town to be found, where some have not been roused out of the sleep of death, and constrained to cry out, in the bitterness of their soul, _What must I do to be saved_? That this _religious concern_ has spread to every age and sex; to most orders and degrees of men? To abundance of those in particular, who in time past, were accounted monsters of wickedness, _drinking in iniquity like water_, and committing all _uncleanness with greediness_. 7. In what age has such a work been wrought, considering the _swiftness_ as well as the _extent_ of it? When have such _numbers_ of sinners in so _short_ a time been recovered from the error of their ways? When hath religion, I will not say, since the _reformation_, but since the time of _Constantine the Great_, made so large a progress in any nation, within so small a space? I believe, hardly can either antient or modern history, supply us with a parallel instance. * 8. Let understanding men observe also the _depth_ of the work, so _extensively_ and _swiftly_ wrought. It is not a slight or superficial thing: but multitudes of men have been so thoroughly _convinced of sin_, that their _bones were smitten asunder, as it were with a sword dividing the very joints and marrow_. Many of these have been shortly after so filled with _peace and joy_ in _believing_, that whether they were in the body, or out of the body, they could scarcely tell. And in the power of this faith they have trampled under foot, whatever the world accounts either terrible or desirable: having evidenced in the severest trials, so fervent a love to God, so invariable and tender a good-will to mankind, particularly to their enemies, and such a measure of all the fruits of holiness, as were not unworthy the apostolic age. Now so deep a repentance, so firm a faith, so fervent love and unblemished holiness, wrought in so many persons, within so short a time, the world has not seen for many ages.