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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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So that it being still left with God, notwithstanding the perfect Obedience of the second Adam, to fix the Degree of each ones Capacity, by what Rule he pleases, ⟨p. 100⟩he agree of each ones Capacity, by what Rule he please; he hath been pleased to fix the Degree of Capacity, and so of Glory by the Proportion of the Saints Grace and Fruitfulness here: He gives higher Degrees of Glory, in Reward for higher Degrees of Holiness and good Works, because it pleases him; and yet all the Happiness of each Saint is indeed the Fruit of the Purchase of Christ's Obedience. If it had been but one Man, that Christ had obeyed and died for, and it had pleased God to make him of a very large Capacity, Christ's perfect Obedience would have purchased that his Capacity should be filled, and then all his Happiness might properly be said to be the Fruit of Christ's perfect Obedience; though if he had been of a less Capacity, he would not have had so much Happiness, by the same Obedience; and yet would had as much as Christ merited for him. Christ's Righteousness meddles not with the Degree of Happiness, any otherwise than as he merits that it should be full, and perfect, according to the Capacity: And so it may be said to be concerned in the Degree of Happiness, as perfect is a Degree, with Respect to imperfect; but it meddles not with Degrees of perfect Happiness.
So that it being still left with God, notwithstanding the perfect Obedience of the second Adam, to fix the Degree of each ones Capacity, by what Rule he pleases, ⟨p. 100⟩he •gree of each ones Capacity, by what Rule he please; he hath been pleased to fix the Degree of Capacity, and so of Glory by the Proportion of the Saints Grace and Fruitfulness here: He gives higher Degrees of Glory, in Reward for higher Degrees of Holiness and good Works, because it pleases him; and yet all the Happiness of each Saint is indeed the Fruit of the Purchase of Christ's Obedience. If it had been but one Man, that Christ had obeyed and died for, and it had pleased God to make him of a very large Capacity, Christ's perfect Obedience would have purchased that his Capacity should be fill'd, and then all his Happiness might properly be said to be the Fruit of Christ's perfect Obedience; though if he had been of a less Capacity, he would not have had so much Happiness, by the same Obedience; and yet would had as much as Christ merited for him. Christ's Righteousness meddles not with the Degree of Happiness, any otherwise than as he merits that it should be full, and perfect, according to the Capacity: And so it may be said to be concern'd in the Degree of Happiness, as perfect is a Degree, with Respect to imperfect; but it meddles not with Degrees of perfect Happiness.