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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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We speak of it as an happy Thing, that God is pleased to be causing of it to be such a Time amongst us; and so it is indeed: but there are some that it will be no Benefit to; it will but be an Occasion of their greater Misery; they will wish they had never seen this Time; it will be more tolerable for those that never saw it, or any Thing like it, in the Day of Judgment than for them. 'Tis an awful Consideration, that there are probably those here, that the great Judge will hereafter call to a strict Account about this very Thing, why they no better improved this Opportunity, when he did so set open the Fountain of his Grace, and did so loudly ⟨p. 160⟩call upon them, and came and strove with them in particular, by the Awakening Influences of his Spirit; and they will have no good Account to give to the Judge, but their Mouths will be stopped, and they will stand Speechless before him.
We speak of it as an happy Thing, that God is pleased to be causing of it to be such a Time amongst us; and so it is indeed: but there are some that it will be no Benefit to; it will but be an Occasion of their greater Misery; they will wish they had never seen this Time; it will be more tolerable for those that never saw it, or any Thing like it, in the Day of Judgment than for them. 'Tis an awful Consideration, that there are probably those here, that the great Judge will hereafter call to a strict Account about this very Thing, why they no better improved this Opportunity, when he did so set open the Fountain of his Grace, and did so loudly ⟨p. 160⟩call upon them, and came and strove with them in particular, by the Awakening Influences of his Spirit; and they will have no good Account to give to the Judge, but their Mouths will be stop'd, and they will stand Speechless before him.
You had need therefore to be earnest, and very thorough and resolved in this Affair, that you may not be one of those that shall thus fail, that you may so fight, as not uncertainly, and so run, as that you may win the Prize.