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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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That justifying Repentance has the Nature of Faith seems evident by Acts 19 4. Then said Paul, John verily baptised with the Baptism of Repentance, saying unto the People, that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is on Christ Jesus. The latter Words, Saying unto the People, that they should believe on him &c. are evidently exegetical of the former, and explain how he preached Repentance for the Remission of Sins: When it is said that he preached Repentance for the Remission of Sin, saying that they should believe on Christ, it can't be supposed but that 'tis intended, that his saying that ⟨p. 107⟩they should believe on Christ, was as directing them what to do that they might obtain the Remission of Sins. So 2 Tim. 2. 25. In Meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them Repentance, to the acknowledging of the Truth. That acknowledging of the Truth which there is in Believing, is here spoken of as what is attained in Repentance. And on the other Hand, that Faith includes Repentance in its Nature, is evident by the Apostle's speaking of Sin as destroyed in Faith, Gal. 2. 18. In the preceding Verses, the Apostle mentions an Objection against the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, viz. that it tends to encourage Men in Sin, and so to make Christ the Minister of Sin: This Objection he rejects and refuses with this, If I build again the Things that I destroyed, I make my self a Transgressor. If Sin be destroyed by Faith, it must be by Repentance of Sin included in it; for we know that it is our Repentance of Sin, or the Metanoia, or turning of the Mind from Sin, that is our destroying our Sin.
That justifying Repentance has the Nature of Faith seems evident by Acts 19 4. Then said Paul, John verily baptised with the Baptism of Repentance, saying unto the People, that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is on Christ Jesus. The latter Words, Saying unto the People, that they should believe on him &c. are evidently exegetical of the former, and explain how he preached Repentance for the Remission of Sins: When it is said that he preached Repentance for the Remission of Sin, saying that they should believe on Christ, it can't be supposed but that 'tis intended, that his saying that