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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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Object 4 It may be objected against what has been supposed, viz. That Rewards are given to our good Works only in Consequence of an Interest in Christ, or in Testimony of God's Respect to the Excellency or Value of them in his Sight, as built on an Interest in Christ's Righteousness already obtained, that the Scripture speaks of an Interest in Christ it self, as being given out of Respect to our moral Fitness. Matth. 10 37,38,39. He that loveth Father or Mother more than me, is not worthy of me: He that loveth Son or Daughter more than me, is not worthy of me: He that taketh not up his Cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his Life shall lose it, &c. Worthiness here, at least signifies a moral Fitness, or an Excellency or Virtue that recommends: And this Place seems to intimate as tho' it were from Respect to a moral Fitness that Men are admitted, even to an Union with Christ, and Interest in him: And therefore this Worthiness cannot be consequent on a being in Christ, and by the Imputation of his Worthiness, or from any Value that is in us, or in our Actions in God's Sight, as beheld in Christ.
Object 4 It may be objected against what has been supposed, viz. That Rewards are given to our good Works only in Consequence of an Interest in Christ, or in Testimony of God's Respect to the Excellency or Value of them in his Sight, as built on an Interest in Christ's Righteousness already obtain'd, that the Scripture speaks of an Interest in Christ it self, as being given out of Respect to our moral Fitness. Matth. 10 37,38,39. He that loveth Father or Mother more than me, is not worthy of me: He that loveth Son or Daughter more than me, is not worthy of me: He that taketh not up his Cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his Life shall lose it, &c. Worthiness here, at least signifies a moral Fitness, or an Excellency or Virtue that recommends: And this Place seems to intimate as tho' it were from Respect to a moral Fitness that Men are admitted, even to an Union with Christ, and Interest in him: And therefore this Worthiness cannot be consequent on a being in Christ, and by the Imputation of his Worthiness, or from any Value that is in us, or in our Actions in God's Sight, as beheld in Christ.