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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. On Account of the Shortness and Uncertainty of the Opportunity for getting into this Kingdom. When a few Days are past, all our Opportunity for it will be gone. Our Day is limited; God has set our Bounds, and we know not where. While Persons are out of this Kingdom, they are in Danger every Hour of being overtaken with Wrath. We know not how soon we shall get past that Line, beyond which there is no Work, Device, Knowledge, nor Wisdom; and therefore we should do what we have to do with our Might. Eccles. 9 10.
2. On Account of the Shortness and Uncertainty of the Opportunity for getting into this Kingdom. When a few Days are past, all our Opportunity for it will be gone. Our Day is limited; God has set our Bounds, and we know not where. While Persons are out of this Kingdom, they are in Danger every Hour of being overtaken with Wrath. We know not how soon we shall get past that Line, beyond which there is no Work, Device, Knowlege, nor Wisdom; and therefore we should do what we have to do with our Might. Eccles. 9 10.
3. On Account of the Difficulty of getting into the Kingdom of God. There are innumerable Difficulties in the Way; such as few conquer; most of them that try have not Resolution, Courage, Earnestness, and Constancy enough; but they fail, give out, and perish. The Difficulties are too many, and too great for them that don't violently press forward, to grapple with; they never get along, but stick by the Way, or are turned aside, and turned back, and ruined. Matth. 7. 14. Strait is the Gate, and narrow is the Way which leadeth unto Life, and few there be that find it. Luke 13. 24 Strive to enter in at the strait Gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.