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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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If we look over the Scriptures that speak of evangelical Repentance, we shall presently see that Repentance is to be understood in this Sense; as Matth. 9. 13. I am not come to call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance. Luke 13 3. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; And Chap 15. 7, 10. There is Joy in Heaven over one Sinner that repenteth, i. e. over one Sinner ⟨p. 105⟩that is converted. Acts 11. 18. Then hath God, also to the Gentiles, granted Repentance unto Life. This is said by the Christians of the Circumcision at Jerusalem, upon Peter's giving an Account of the Conversion of Cornelius and his Family, and their embracing the Gospel, tho' Peter had said nothing expressly about their Sorrow for Sin. And again, Acts 17. 30. But now commandeth all Men, every where, to repent. And Luke 16. 30. Nay Father Abraham, but if one went to them from the Dead, they would repent. 2 Pet. 3. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his Promise, as some Men count Slackness, but is Long-suffering to us ward not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to Repentance▪ 'Tis plain that in these and other Places, by Repentance is meant Conversion.
If we look over the Scriptures that speak of evangelical Repentance, we shall presently see that Repentance is to be understood in this Sense; as Matth. 9. 13. I am not come to call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance. Luke 13 3. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; And Chap 15. 7, 10. There is Joy in Heaven over one Sinner that repenteth, i. e. over one Sinner ⟨p. 105⟩