Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…

Name: Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…
Author: Jonathan Edwards

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]

Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1738

[2], vi, 286, [2] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo) · 142k words · Evans 4239

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Discourse 1: JUSTIFICATION BY Faith alone.

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:185p. 83

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.

:186p. 83–84

So that as was before said of Faith, so may it be said of a child like, believing Obedience, it has no concern in Justification by any Virtue, or Excellency in it; but only as there is a Reception of Christ in it. And this is no more contrary to the Apostle's frequent Assertion of our being justified without the Works of the Law, than to say that we are justified by Faith; for Faith is as much a Work or act of christian Obedience, as the Expressions of Faith, in spiritual Life and Walk. And ⟨p. 84⟩therefore as we say that Faith don't justify as a Work, so we say of all these effective Expressions of Faith.

So that as was before said of Faith, so may it be said of a child like, believing Obedience, it has no concern in Justification by any Vertue, or Excellency in it; but only as there is a Reception of Christ in it. And this is no more contrary to the Apostle's frequent Assertion of our being justified without the Works of the Law, than to say that we are justified by Faith; for Faith is as much a Work or act of christian Obedience, as the Expressions of Faith, in spiritual Life and Walk. And

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