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Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…
Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation, viz. I. Justification by faith alone. II. Pressing into the Kingdom of God. III. Ruth's resolution. IV. The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. V. The excellency of Jesus Christ. : Delivered at Northampton, chiefly at the time of the late wonderful pouring out of the spirit of God there. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1738
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Therefore it certainly follows, that that Doctrine that teaches that God, when he justifies a Man, and shows him that great Kindness, as to give him a Right to eternal Life, don't do it for any Obedience, or any manner of Goodness of his; but that Justification respects a Man as ungodly, and wholly without any manner of Virtue, Beauty, or Excellency. […] say, this Doctrine does certainly more exalt the free Grace of God in Justification, and Man's Obligation to Gratitude to him, for such a Favour, th•n the contrary Doctrine, viz. That God in showing this Kindness to Man, respects him as sincerely ⟨p. 53⟩obedient and virtuous, and as having something in him that is truly Excellent, and Lovely, and Acceptable in his Sight, and that this Goodness or Excellency of Man is the very fundamental Condition of the bestowment of that Kindness on him, or of the distinguishing him from others by that Benefit. But I hasten to a
Therefore it certainly follows, that that Doctrine that teaches that God, when he justifies a Man, and shews him that great Kindness, as to give him a Right to eternal Life, don't do it for any Obedience, or any manner of Goodness of his; but that Justification respects a Man as ungodly, and wholly without any manner of Vertue, Beauty, or Excellency. 〈…〉 say, this Doctrine does certainly more exalt the free Grace of God in Justification, and Man's Obligation to Gratitude to him, for such a Favour, th•n the contrary Doctrine, viz. That God in shewing this Kindness to Man, respects him as sincerely ⟨p. 53⟩obedient and vertuous, and as having something in him that is truly Excellent, and Lovely, and Acceptable in his Sight, and that this Goodness or Excellency of Man is the very fundamental Condition of the bestowment of that Kindness on him, or of the distinguishing him from others by that Benefit. But I hasten to a