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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 this Light increases, and shines more and more, and the Stars that served for Light during the foregoing Night, gradually go out, and their Light ceases, as being now needless, till at length the Sun rises, and enlightens the World by his own direct light, which increases as •e ascends higher above the Horizon, till the Day ••ar it self is gradually put out, and disappears; agreeable to what John says of himself, John 3. […] He must increase; but I must decrease. John was the Forerunner of Christ, and ⟨p. 133⟩Harbinger of the Gospel-Day; much as the Morning-Star is the Forerunner of the Sun. He had the most honourable Office of any of the Prophets; when as the other Prophets foretold Christ to come, he revealed him as already come, & had the Honour to be that Servant that should come immediately before him & actually introduce him, & even to be the Instrument concerned in his solemn Inauguration, as he was in Baptizing him. He was the greatest of the Prophets that came before Christ, as the Morning-Star is the brightest of all the Stars, Matth. 11. 11. He came to prepare Men's Hearts to receive that Kingdom of God, that Christ was about more fully to reveal and erect. Luke 1. 17. To make ready a People prepared for the Lord.
but this Light increases, and shines more and more, and the Stars that served for Light during the foregoing Night, gradually go out, and their Light ceases, as being now needless, till at length the Sun rises, and enlightens the World by his own direct light, which increases as •e ascends higher above the Horizon, till the Day ••ar it self is gradually put out, and disappears; agreeable to what John says of himself, John 3. 〈…〉 He must increase; but I must decrease. John was the Forerunner of Christ, and ⟨p. 133⟩