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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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The Design of this Saying of Christ is to make sensible of the Unworthiness of their Treatment of Christ, that pro•ess'd him to be their Lord and Saviour, an• […] him below Father and Mother, &c. and not to persuade of the Unworthiness of loving him above Father and Mother. If a Beggar should be offered any great and preciou Gift, but as soon as offered, should trample it under his Feet, it might be taken from him, as unworthy to have it: Or if a Malefactor should have his Pardon offered him, and he be freed from Execution, and should only scoff at it, his Pardon might be refused him, as unworthy of it; tho' if he had received it, he would not have had it for his Worthiness, or as being recommended to it by his Virtue; for his being a Malefactor supposes him unworthy, and its being offered him to have it only on accepting, supposes that the King looks for no Worthiness, nothing in him for which he should bestow Pardon as a Reward.—This may teach us how to understand Acts 13 46 It was necessary that the Word of God should first be spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting Life, •o we turn to the Gentiles.
The Design of this Saying of Christ is to make sensible of the Unworthiness of their Treatment of Christ, that pro•ess'd him to be their Lord and Saviour, an• 〈…〉 him below Father and Mother, &c. and not to perswade of the Unworthiness of loving him above Father and Mother. If a Beggar should be offer'd any great and preciou Gift, but as soon as offer'd, should trample it under his Feet, it might be taken from him, as unworthy to have it: Or if a Malefactor should have his Pardon offered him, and he be freed from Execution, and should only scoff at it, his Pardon might be refused him, as unworthy of it; tho' if he had received it, he would not have had it for his Worthiness, or as being recommended to it by his Virtue; for his being a Malefactor supposes him unworthy, and its being offered him to have it only on accepting, supposes that the King looks for no Worthiness, nothing in him for which he should bestow Pardon as a Reward.—This may teach us how to understand