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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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2. From the Value God sets upon their Persons, for the Sake of Christ's Worthiness, he also sets a high Value in their V•i••ue• and Performance. Their meek and quiet Spirit is of great Price in his Sight. Their Fruits are pleasant Fruits, their Offering are an Odour of sweet Smell to him: And that because of the Value he sets on their Persons, as has been already observed and explained. This Preciousness, or high Valuableness of Believers is a moral Fitness to a Reward, and yet this Valuableness is all in the Righteousness of Christ, that is the Foundation of it▪ The Thing that Respect is had to, is not the Excellency that is in them, separately by themselves, or in their Virtue by it self, but to the Value that in God's Account arises thereto on other Considerations; which is the natural import of the Manner of Expression in Luke 20 35. They which shall be accounted worthy, to obtain that World. &c And Luke 21 36. That ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these Things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. 2 Thess 1. 5 That ye may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer
2. From the Value God sets upon their Persons, for the Sake of Christ's Worthiness, he also sets a high Value in their V•i••ue• and Performance. Their meek and quiet Spirit is of great Price in his Sight. Their Fruits are pleasant Fruits, their Offering are an Odou• of sweet Smell to him: And that because of the Value he sets on their Persons, as has been already observed and explained. This Preciousness, or high Valuableness of Believers is a moral Fitness to a Reward, and yet this Valuableness is all in the Righteousness of Christ, that is the Foundation of it▪ The Thing that Respect is had to, is not the Excellency that is in them, seperately by themselves, or in their Virtue by it self, but to the Value that in God's Account arises thereto on other Considerations; which is the natural import of the Manner of Expression in