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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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God is pleased at this Time, in a very remarkable Manner, to be pouring out his Spirit amongst us; (Glory be to his Name therefore!) You that have a Mind to obtain converting Grace, and to go to Heaven when you die, now is your Season! Now, if you have any Sort of Prudence for your own Salvation, and have not a Mind to go to Hell, improve this Time! Now is the accepted Time! Now is the Day of Salvation! You that in Time past have been called upon, and have turned a deaf Ear to God's Voice, and long stood out and resisted his Commands and Counsels, hear God's Voice to Day, while it is called to Day! Don't harden your Hearts at such a Day as this is! Now you have a special and remarkable price put into your Hands to get Wisdom, if you have but a Heart to improve it.
God is pleased at this Time, in a very remarkable Manner, to be pouring out his Spirit amongst us; (Glory be to his Name therefor!) You that have a Mind to obtain converting Grace, and to go to Heaven when you die, now is your Season! Now, if you have any Sort of Prudence for your own Salvation, and have not a Mind to go to Hell, improve this Time! Now is the accepted Time! Now is the Day of Salvation! You that in Time past have been called upon, and have turn'd a deaf Ear to God's Voice, and long stood out and resisted his Commands and Counsels, hear God's Voice to Day, while it is called to Day! Don't harden your Hearts at such a Day as this is! Now you have a special and remarkable price put into your Hands to get Wisdom, if you have but a Heart to improve it.
God hath his certain Days, or appointed Seasons of the Exercise both of Mercy and Judgment. There are some Seasons that are remarkable Times of Wrath, that are laid out by God for that Purpose, viz for his awful Visitation, and the Executions of his Anger; which Times are called Days of Vengeance, Prov 6. 34 And Days wherein God will visit for Sin, Exod. 32. 34 And so on the contrary, there are some other Times, that God has laid out in his sovereign Counsels, for Seasons of remarkable Mercy, wherein he will appear, and manifest himself, in the Exercises of his Grace and Lovingkindness, more than at other Times: Such Times, in Scripture are called by Way of Eminency, accepted Times, and Days of Salvation, and also Days of God's Visitation; because they are Days wherein God will visit in a Way of Mercy; as