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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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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.
Such Doctrines as these, which by humbling the Minds of Men, prepare them for the Exaltations of GOD, He has signally own'd and prosper'd 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 contemn'd 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.
We cannot therefore but express our Joy and Thankfulness, that the great Head of the Church is pleased still to raise up from among the Children of his People, for the Supply of His Churches, those who assert & maintain these Evangelical Principles; and that our Churches, (notwithstanding all their Degeneracies) have still a high Value for such Principles, and for those who publicly own and teach them.
We cannot therefore but express our Joy and Thankfulness, that the great Head of the Church is pleas'd still to raise up from among the Children of his People, for the Supply of His Churches, those who assert & maintain these Evangelical Principles; and that our Churches, (notwithstanding all their Degeneracies) have still a high Value for such Principles, and for those who publickly own and teach them.