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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 seeing we are such infinitely sinful and abominable Creatures in God's Sight, and by our infinite Guilt have brought our selves into such wretched and deplorable Circumstances, and […] our Righteousnesses are nothing, and ten thousand times worse than nothing, (if God looks upon them as they be in themselves) is it not immensely more worthy of the infinite Majesty and Glory of God, to deliver and make happy such poor filthy Worms, such wretched Vagabonds and Captives, without any Money or Price of theirs, or any Manner of Expectation of any Excellency or Virtue in them, in any wise to recommend them? Will it not betray a foolish exalting Opinion of our selves, and a mean one of God, to have a Thought of offering any thing of ours, to recommend us, to the Favour of being brought from wallowing like filthy Swine in the Mire of our Sins, and from the Enmity and Misery of Devils in the lowest Hell, to the State of God's dear Children, in the everlasting Arms of his Love, in heavenly Glory; or to imagine that that is the Constitution of God, that we should bring our filthy Rags, and offer them to him as the Price of this?
But seeing we are such infinitely sinful and abominable Creatures in God's Sight, and by our infinite Guilt have brought our selves into such wretched and deplorable Circumstances, and 〈…〉 our Righteousnesses are nothing, and ten thousand times worse than nothing, (if God looks upon them as they be in themselves) is it not immensely more worthy of the infinite Majesty and Glory of God, to deliver and make happy such poor filthy Worms, such wretched Vagabonds and Captives, without any Money or Price of theirs, or any Manner of Expectation of any Excellency or Virtue in them, in any wise to recommend them? Will it not betray a foolish exalting Opinion of our selves, and a mean one of God, to have a Thought of offering any thing of ours, to recommend us, to the Favour of being brought from wallowing like filthy Swine in the Mire of our Sins, and from the Enmity and Misery of Devils in the lowest Hell, to the State of God's dear Children, in the everlasting Arms of his Love, in heavenly Glory; or to imagine that that is the Constitution of God, that we should bring our filthy Rags, and offer them to him as the Price of this?