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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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7. If you should see another such Time, it will be under far greater Disadvantages than you now see this Time. You will probably then be much older, and will have more hardened your Heart; and so will be under less Probability of receiving Good. Some Persons are so hardened in Sin, and so left of God, that they can live through such a Time as this, and not be much awakened or affected by it; they can stand their Ground, and be but Little moved. And so may it be with you, by another such Time, if there should be another amongst us, and you should live to see it. The Case in all Probability will be greatly altered with you by that Time. If you should continue Christless and Graceless till then, you will be much further from the Kingdom of God, and much deeper involved in Snares and Misery; and the Devil will probably have a vastly greater Advantage against you, to tempt and confound you.
7. If you should see another such Time, it will be under far greater Disadvantages than you now see this Time. You will probably then be much older, and will have more harden'd your Heart; and so will be under less Probability of receiving Good. Some Persons are so harden'd in Sin, and so left of God, that they can live through such a Time as this, and not be much awaken'd or affected by it; they can stand their Ground, and be but Little moved. And so may it be with you, by another such Time, if there should be another amongst us, and you should live to see it. The Case in all Prohability will be greatly altered with you by that Time. If you should continue Christless and Graceless till then, you will be much further from the Kingdom of God, and much deeper involved in Snares and Misery; and the Devil will probably have a vastly greater Advantage against you, to tempt and confound you.
8. We don't know but that God is now gathering in his Elect, before some great and sore Judgment. It has been God's Manner before he casts off a visible People, or brings some great and destroying Judgments upon them, first to gather in his Elect, that they may be secure. So it was before the casting off of the Jews from being God's People: There was first a very remarkable pouring out of the Spirit, and gathering in of the Elect, by the Preaching of the Apostles and Evangelists, as we read in the beginning of the Acts: But after this Harvest, and it's Gleanings were over, the Rest were blinded, and hardened; the Gospel had little Success amongst them, and the Nation was given up, and cast off from being God's People, and their City and Land was destroyed by the Romans in a terrible Manner; and