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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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Ans. 1 Tho' Earnestness of Mind be not immediately in your Power, yet the Consideration of what has been now said of the Need of it, may be a Means of stirring you up to it. 'Tis true, Persons never will be thoroughly engaged in this Business unless it be by God's Influence; but God influences Persons by Means: ⟨p. 144⟩Persons are not stirred up to a thorough Earnestness;s without some Considerations that move them to it: And if Persons ca• but be made sensible of the Necessity of Salvation, and also do duly consider the exceeding Difficulty of it, and the Greatness of the Opposition, and how short and uncertain the Time is, but yet are sensible that they have an Opportunity, and that there is a Possibility of their obtaining, they will need no more in order to their being thoroughly engaged&resolved in this Matter. If we see Persons slack, and unresolved, and […] steady, it is because they don't enough consider these Things.
Ans. 1 Tho' Earnestness of Mind be not immediately in your Power, yet the Consideration of what has been now said of the Need of it, may be a Means of stirring you up to it. 'Tis true, Persons never will be thoroughly engaged in this Business unless it be by God's Influence; but God influences Persons by Means: ⟨p. 144⟩Persons are not stirr'd up to a thorough Earnestnes;s without some Considerations that move them to it: And if Persons ca• but be made sensible of the Necessity of Salvation, and also do duly consider the exceeding Difficulty of it, and the Greatness of the Opposition, and how short and uncertain the Time is, but yet are sensible that they have an Opportunity, and that there is a Possibility of their obtaining, they will need no more in order to their being thoroughly engaged&resolved in this Matter. If we see Persons slack, and unresolved, and 〈…〉 steady, it is because they don't enough consider these Things.