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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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And tho' God don't stand in need of Signs to know whether we have true Faith or not, yet our own Consciences do; so that 'tis much for our Comfort that Promises are made to Signs of Faith. A finding in our selves a forgiving Temper and Disposition, may be a most proper and natural Evidence to our Consciences that our Hearts have, in a Sense of our own utter unworthiness, truly closed▪ and fallen in, with the way of free, and infinitely gracious forgiveness of our Sins, by Jesus Christ; whence we may be enabled, with the greater Comfort to apply to our selves the Promises of forgiveness by Christ.
3. It has been just now shown▪ how that Acts of evangelical Obedience are indeed concerned in our Justification it self, and are not excluded from that Condition that Justification depends upon, without the least Prejudice to that Doctrine of Justification by ⟨p. 86⟩Faith, without any Goodness of our own, that has been maintained, and therefore it can be no Objection against this Doctrine, that we have sometimes in Scripture, Promises of Pardon and Acceptance, made to such Acts of Obedience.
3. It has been just now shown▪ how that Acts of evangelical Obedience are indeed concern'd in our Justification it self, and are not excluded from that Condition that Justification depends upon, without the least Prejudice to that Doctrine of Justification by ⟨p. 86⟩Faith, without any Goodness of our own, that has been maintain'd, and therefore it can be no Objection against this Doctrine, that we have sometimes in Scripture, Promises of Pardon and Acceptance, made to such Acts of Obedience.