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God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependence upon…God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependance upon…
God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependence upon him, in the whole of it. A sermon preached on the public lecture in Boston, July 8. 1731. : And published at the desire of several, ministers and others, in Boston, who heard it. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Two lines from Judges]God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependance upon him, in the whole of it. A sermon preached on the publick lecture in Boston, July 8. 1731. : And published at the desire of several, ministers and others, in Boston, who heard it. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Two lines from Judges]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for D. Henchman, 1731
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For in proportion to the sense we have of our Dependence on the Sovereign GOD, for all the good we want, will be our Value for Him, our Application to Him, our Trust in Him, our Fear to offend Him, and our Care to please Him; as likewise our Gratitude & Love, our Delight and Praise, upon our sensible Experience of his free Benefits.
For in proportion to the sense we have of our Dependance on the Sovereign GOD, for all the good we want, will be our Value for Him, our Application to Him, our Trust in Him, our Fear to offend Him, and our Care to please Him; as likewise our Gratitude & Love, our Delight and Praise, upon our sensible Experience of his free Benefits.
In short, It is the very Soul of Piety to apprehend and own, That all our Springs are in Him; the Springs of our present Grace and Comfort, and of our future Glory and Blessedness; and that they all entirely flow through' CHRIST by the efficacious Influence of the HOLY SPIRIT. By these things Saints live, and in all these things is the Life of our Spirits.
In short, It is the very Soul of Piety to apprehend and own, That all our Springs are in Him; the Springs of our present Grace and Comfort, and of our future Glory and Blessedness; and that they all intirely flow thro' CHRIST by the efficacious Influence of the HOLY SPIRIT. By these things Saints live, and in all these things is the Life of our Spirits.
Such Doctrines as these, which by humbling the Minds of Men, prepare them for the Exaltations of GOD, He has signally owned and prospered in the reformed World, and in our Land especially in the Days of our Fore-fathers; and we hope they will never grow unfashionable among us: For, we are well assured, if those which we call the Doctrines of Grace, ever come to be contemned or disrelished, vital Piety will proportionably languish and wear away; as these Doctrines always sink in the Esteem of Men, upon the Decay of serious Religion.