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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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but there is a hearty Acknowledgement of it, with the Submission of the Soul, so as with the Accord of the Heart, to own that God might be just, and worthy in the Punishment. If the Heart rises against the Act or Judgment of God, in holding us obliged to the Punishment, when he offers us his Son as a Saviour from the Punishment, we cannot with the Consent of the Heart receive him in that Character: But if Persons thus submit to the Righteousness of so dreadful a Punishment of Sin, this carries in it an Hatred of Sin.
but there is a hearty Acknowlegement of it, with the Submission of the Soul, so as with the Accord of the Heart, to own that God might be just, and worthy in the Punishment. If the Heart rises against the Act or Judgment of God, in holding us obliged to the Punishment, when he offers us his Son as a Saviour from the Punishment, we cannot with the Consent of the Heart receive him in that Character: But if Persons thus submit to the Righteousness of so dreadful a Punishment of Sin, this carries in it an Hatred of Sin.
That such a Sense of our Sinfulness, and utter Unworthiness, and Desert of Punishment, belongs to the Nature of saving Faith, is what the Scripture from time to time seems to hold forth; as particularly in Matth. 15. 26, 27, 28. But he answered and said, it is not not ⟨p. 111⟩meet to take the Children's Bread, and to cast it to Dogs. And she said, truth Lord: yet the Dogs eat of the Crumbs which fall from their Master's Table. Then Jesus answered, and said unto her, O Woman, gre••• thy Faith. And Luke 7. 6, 7, 8, 9. The Centurion sent Friends to him, saying unto him, Lord trouble not thy self, for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my Roof: wherefore neither thought I my self worthy to come unto thee, but say in a Word, and my Servant shall be healed: for I am a Man set under Authority, &c.—When Jesus heard these Things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about and said unto the People that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great Faith, no not in Israel. And also Verses 37, 38. And behold a Woman in the City, which was a Sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at Meat in the Pharisees House, brought an Alabaster Box of Ointment, and stood at his Feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his Feet with Tears, and did wipe them with the Hairs of her Head, and kissed his Feet, and anointed them with the Ointment. Together with Verse 50 He said unto the Woman, thy Faith hath saved thee; go in Peace.