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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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2. The adverse Scheme lays another Foundation of Man's Salvation than God hath laid. I don't now speak of that ineffectual Redemption that they suppose to be universal, and what all Mankind are equally the Subjects of; but, I say, it lays entirely another Foundation of Man's actual, discriminating Salvation, or that Salvation wherein true Christians differ from wicked Men. We suppose the Foundation of this to be Christ's Worthiness and Righteousness: On the contrary, that Scheme supposes it to be Men's own Virtue; even so, that this is the Ground of a saving Interest in Christ it self. It takes away Christ out of the Place of the bottom Stone, and puts in Men's own Virtue in the Room of him: So that Christ himself in the Affair of distinguishing actual Salvation, is laid upon this Foundation. And the Foundation being so different, I leave it to every one to judge whether the Difference between the two Schemes consists only in Punctilios of small Consequence. The Foundations being contrary makes the whole Scheme exceeding Diverse and Opposite; the one is a Gospel Scheme, the other a legal one.
2. The adverse Scheme lays another Foundation of Man's Salvation than God hath laid. I don't now speak of that ineffectual Redemption that they suppose to be universal, and what all Mankind are equally the Subjects of; but, I say, it lays intirely another Foundation of Man's actual, discriminating Salvation, or that Salvation wherein true Christians differ from wicked Men. We suppose the Foundation of this to be Christ's Worthiness and Righteousness: On the contrary, that Scheme supposes it to be Men's own Virtue; even so, that this is the Ground of a saving Interest in Christ it self. It takes away Christ out of the Place of the bottom Stone, and puts in Men's own Virtue in the Room of him: So that Christ himself in the Affair of distinguishing actual Salvation, is laid upon this Foundation. And the Foundation being so different, I leave it to every one to judge whether the Difference between the two Schemes consists only in Punctilios of small Consequence. The Foundations being contrary makes the whole Scheme exceeding Diverse and Opposite; the one is a Gospel Scheme, the other a legal one.