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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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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. 1 Cor. 15, 22. because he acted the Part for us, that the first Adam should have done: When he had undertaken for us to stand in our stead, he was looked upon, and treated as tho' he were guilty with our Guilt; and by his satisfying, or bearing the Penalty, he did as it were free himself from this Guilt. But by this, the second Adam did only bring himself into the State that the first Adam was in on the first Moment of his Existence, viz a State of mee• freedom from Guilt; and hereby indeed was free from any Obligation to suffer Punishment: But this being supposed, there was need of something further, even a positive Obedience, in order to his obtaining, as our second Adam, the Reward of eternal Life.
So on the same Account we han't eternal Life meerly on the Account of being void of Guilt, (as Adam was at first existence,) which we have by the Attonement 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. 1 Cor. 15, 22. because he acted the Part for us, that the first Adam should have done: When he had undertaken for us to stand in our stead, he was looked upon, and treated as tho' he were guilty with our Guilt; and by his satisfying, or bearing the Penalty, he did as it were free himself from this Guilt. But by this, the second Adam did only bring himself into the State that the first Adam was in on the first Moment of his Existence, viz a State of mee• freedom from Guilt; and hereby indeed was free from any Obligation to suffer Punishment: But this being supposed, there was need of something further, even a positive Obedience, in order to his obtaining, as our second Adam, the Reward of eternal Life.