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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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There is indeed but one great Law of God, and that is the same Law that says, if thou sinnest thou shalt die, and cursed is every one that continues not in all Things contained in this Law to do them: All Duties of positive Institution, are virtually comprehended in this Law: and therefore if the Jews brake the ceremonial Law, it exposed 'em to the Penalty of the Law, or Covenant of Works, which threatened, thou shalt surely die. The Law is the eternal and unalterable Rule of Righteousness, between God and Man, and therefore is the Rule of Judgment, by which all that a Man does shall be either justified or condemned; and no Sin exposes to Damnation, but by the Law: So now he that refuses to obey the Precepts that require an Attendance on the Sacraments of the New-Testament, is exposed to Damnation, by Virtue of the Law or Covenant of Works.—It may moreover be argued, that all Sins whatsoever, are Breaches of the Law or Covenant of Works, because all Sins, even Breaches of the positive Precepts, as well as others▪ have Atonement by the Death of Christ: But what Christ died for, was to satisfy the Law, or to bear the Curse of the Law; as appears by Gal. 3. 10, 11, 12, 1•. and Rom 8. 3, 4
There is indeed but one great Law of God, and that is the same Law that says, if thou sinnest thou shalt die, and cursed is every one that continues not in all Things contained in this Law to do them: All Duties of positive Institution, are virtually comprehended in this Law: and therefore if the Jews brake the ceremonial Law, it exposed 'em to the Penalty of the Law, or Covenant of Works, which threaten'd, thou shalt surely die. The Law is the eternal and unalterable Rule of Righteousness, between God and Man, and therefore is the Rule of Judgment, by which all that a Man does shall be either justified or condemn'd; and no Sin exposes to Damnation, but by the Law: So now he that refuses to obey the Precepts that require an Attendance on the Sacraments of the New-Testament, is exposed to Damnation, by Virtue of the Law or Covenant of Works.—It may moreover be argued, that all Sins whatsoever, are Breaches of the Law or Covenant of Works, because all Sins, even Breaches of the positive Precepts, as well as others▪ have Atonement by the Death of Christ: But what Christ died for, was to satisfy the Law, or to bear the Curse of the Law; as appears by