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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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The Obedience of a Christian, so far as it is truly evangelical, and performed with the Spirit of the Son sent forth into the Heart, has all relation to Christ the Mediator, and is but an Expression of the Soul's believing Unition to Christ: All evangelical Works are Works of that Faith that worketh by Love; and every such Act of Obedience, wherein it is inward, and the Act of the Soul, is only a new effective Act of Reception of Christ, and Adherence to the glorious Saviour. Hence that of the Apostle, Gal 2. 20. I live, yet not I; but Christ liveth in me; and the Life that I now live in the Flesh, is by the Faith of the Son of God. And hence we are directed, in whatever we do, whether in Word or Deed▪ to do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Col. 3. 17.
And that God in Justification has respect, not only to the first Act of Faith, but also to future persevering Acts, in this Sense, viz as expressed in Life, […] seems manifest by Rom 1. 17. For therein is the Righteousness of God revealed, from Faith to Faith: As it is written, the Just shall live by Faith. And Heb. 10. 38, 39. Now the Just shall live by Faith; but if any Man draw back, my Soul shall have no Pleasure in him. But we are not of them that draw back unto Perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the Soul.
And that God in Justification has respect, not only to the first Act of Faith, but also to future persevering Acts, in this Sense, viz as expressed in Life, 〈…〉 seems manifest by Rom 1. 17. For therein is the Righteousness of God revealed, from Faith to Faith: As it is written, the Just shall live by Faith. And Heb. 10. 38, 39. Now the Just shall live by Faith; but if any Man draw back, my Soul shall have no Pleasure in him. But we are not of them that draw back unto Perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the Soul.