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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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And in the other Instance which the Apostle mentions, Verse 25. Likewise also was not Rahab the Harlot justified by Works, when she had received the Messengers, and had sent them out another Way? The Apostle refers to a declarative Judgment, in that particular Testimony which was given of God's Approbation of her as a Believer, in directing •••hua to save her, when the Rest of Jericho was destroyed, Josh. 6. 25. And Joshua saved Rahab the Harlot alive, and her Father's Household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this Day; because she hid the Messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho This was accepted as an Evidence and Expression of her Faith. Heb 11 31 By Faith the Harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the Spies with Peace The Apostle in saying, Was not Rahab the Harlot justified by Works? by the Manner of his Speaking has Reference to something in her History; but we have no Account in her History of any other Justification of her but this
And in the other Instance which the Apostle mentions, Verse 25. Likewise also was not Rahab the Harlot justified by Works, when she had received the Messengers, and had sent them out another Way? The Apostle refers to a declarative Judgment, in that particular Testimony which was given of God's Approbation of her as a Believer, in directing •••hua to save her, when the Rest of Jericho was destroyed, Josh. 6. 25. And Joshua saved Rahab the Harlot alive, and her Father's Houshold, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this Day; because she hid the Messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho This was accepted as an Evidence and Expression of her Faith. Heb 11 31 By Faith the Harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the Spies with Peace The Apostle in saying, Was not Rahab the Harlot justified by Works? by the Manner of his Speaking has Reference to something in her History; but we have no Account in her History of any other Justification of her but this