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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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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.
5. Consider what sad Circumstances Times of extraordinary Effusion of God's Spirit commonly leave Persons in, when they leave them unconverted. They find them in a doleful Condition, because in a natural Condition, but commonly leave them in a much more doleful Condition. They are left dreadfully hardened, and with a great Increase of Guilt, and their Souls under a mo• strong Dominion and Possession of Satan. And frequently, Seasons of extraordinary Advantage for Salvation, when they pass over Persons, and they don't improve them, nor receive any Good in them, seal their Damnation. As such Seasons leave them, God for ever leaves them, and gives them up to judicial Hardness. Luke 19. 41, 42. And when he was come near, he beheld the City, and wept over it, saying▪ If thou hadst known, even thou, the Things which belong to thy Peace!—But now they are hid from thine Eyes.
5. Consider what sad Circumstances Times of extraordinary Effusion of God's Spirit commonly leave Persons in, when they leave them unconverted. They find them in a doleful Condition, because in a natural Condition, but commonly leave them in a much more doleful Condition. They are left dreadfully harden'd, and with a great Increase of Guilt, and their Souls under a mo• strong Dominion and Possession of Satan. And frequently, Seasons of extraordinary Advantage for Salvation, when they pass over Persons, and they don't improve them, nor receive any Good in them, seal their Damnation. As such Seasons leave them, God for ever leaves them, and gives them up to judicial Hardness. Luke 19. 41, 42. And when he was come near, he beheld the City, and wept over it, saying If thou hadst known, even thou, the Things which belong to thy Peace!—But now they are hid from thine Eyes.