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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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How should it move you to consider, that you have this Opportunity now in your Hands! You are in the actual Possession of it! If it were past, it would not be in your Power to recover it, or in the Power of any Creature to bring it back for you; but 'tis not past; 'tis NOW, at this Day; NOW is the accepted Time, even while it is called to Day! Will you sit still at such a Time? Will you sleep in such a Harvest? Will you deal with a slack Hand, and stay behind out of ⟨p. 156⟩mere Sloth, or Love to some Lust, or Loathness to grapple with some small Difficulty, or to put your self a little out of your Way, when so many are ••owing to the Goodness of the Lord? You are behind still! and so you will be in Danger of being left behind, when the whole Number is completed that are to enter in, if you don't earnestly be stir your self! To be left behind, at the close of such a Season as this, will be awful, next to the being left behind on that Day when God's Saints shall mount up as with Wings to meet the Lord in the Air, and will be what will appear very threatening of it.
How should it move you to consider, that you have this Opportunity now in your Hands! You are in the actual Possession of it! If it were past, it would not be in your Power to recover it, or in the Power of any Creature to bring it back for you; but 'tis not past; 'tis NOW, at this Day; NOW is the accepted Time, even while it is called to Day! Will you sit still at such a Time? Will you sleep in such a Harvest? Will you deal with a slack Hand, and stay behind out of ⟨p. 156⟩meer Sloth, or Love to some Lust, or Lothness to grapple with some small Difficulty, or to put your self a little out of your Way, when so many are ••owing to the Goodness of the Lord? You are behind still! and so you will be in Danger of being left behind, when the whole Number is compleated that are to enter in, if you don't earnestly be stir your self! To be left behind, at the close of such a Season as this, will be awful, next to the being left behind on that Day when God's Saints shall mount up as with Wings to meet the Lord in the Air, and will be what will appear very threatning of it.