The universality of God's work

This revival among us seems to have been a very extraordinary dispensation of Providence. God has, in many respects, gone out of and far beyond His usual and ordinary way. The work in this town and others around us has been extraordinary on account of the universality of it affecting all kinds of people, temperate and corrupt, high and low, rich and poor, wise and unwise. It has reached the most considerable families and individuals, as far as anyone can tell, as much as it has reached others.
The people remain changed. Even so, those who have been converted in this revival generally seem to have had an abiding change take place in them. I have been particularly acquainted with many of them since, and they generally appear to be people who have a new sense of things: new understandings and views of God, the divine attributes of Jesus Christ, and the great things of the Gospel. They have a new sense of the Gospel truth, and they show this in a new manner.
Their hearts are often touched and sometimes filled with new sweetness and delights. There seems to be an inward ardor and burning of heart, which they never experience before. Sometimes, perhaps this is occasioned only by the mention of Christ’s name. There are new appetites and a new kind of desire in the heart and “groaning which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26). There is a new kind of inward labor and struggle of soul toward heaven and holiness. ~~ Jonathan Edwards, A Call to United, Extraordinary Prayer…