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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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Christ by suffering the Penalty, and so making Atonement for us, only removes the Guilt of our Sins and so sets us in the same State that Adam was in the first Moment of his Creation: And it is no more fit, that we should obtain eternal Life, only on that Account, than that Adam should have the Reward of eternal Life, or of a confirmed and unalterable State of Happiness, the first Moment of his existence, without any Obedience at all.— Adam was not to have the Reward merely on the Account of his being innocent; if so, he would have had it fixed upon him at once, as soon ⟨p. 56⟩as ever he was created; for he was as innocent then as he could be: But he was to have the Reward on the Account of his Activeness in Obedience; not on the Account merely of his not having done ill, but on the Account of his doing well.
Christ by suffering the Penalty, and so making Attonement for us, only removes the Guilt of our Sins and so sets us in the same State that Adam was in the first Moment of his Creation: And it is no more fit, that we should obtain eternal Life, only on that Account, than that Adam should have the Reward of eternal Life, or of a confirmed and unalterable State of Happiness, the first Moment of his existence, without any Obedience at all.— Adam was not to have the Reward meerly on the Account of his being innocent; if so, he would have had it fixed upon him at once, as soon ⟨p. 56⟩as ever he was created; for he was as innocent then as he could be: But he was to have the Reward on the Account of his Activeness in Obedience; not on the Account meerly of his not having done ill, but on the Account of his doing well.
So on the same Account we han't eternal Life merely on the Account of being void of Guilt, (as Adam was at first existence,) which we have by the Atonement of Christ; but on the Account of Christ's activeness in Obedience, and doing well. Christ is our second •edeal. Head, and is called the second Adam.