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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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9. If you neglect the present Opportunity, and •e finally unbelieving, those that are converted in this Time of the pouring out of God's Spirit, will rise up in Judgment against you. Your Neighbours, your Relations, Acquaintance, or Companions that are converted, will that Day appear against you: They won't only be taken while you are left, mounting up with Joy to ⟨p. 163⟩meet the Lord in the Air, while you are left below with those that are to be destroyed, and will stand at the Right Hand with glorious Saints and Angels, while you are at the left with Devils, but they will rise up in Judgment against you. However friendly you have been together, and have taken Pleasure in one another's Company, and have often familiarly conversed together, they will then surely appear against you. They will rise up against you as Witnesses, and will declare what a precious Opportunity you had, and did not improve; how you continued unbelieving, and rejecting the Offers of a Saviour, when those Offers were made in so extraordinary a Manner, and when so many others were prevailed upon to accept of Christ; how you was negligent and slack, and did not know the Things that belonged to your Peace, in that your Day. And not only so, but they shall be your Judges, as Assessors with the great Judge; and as such will appear against you; they will be with the Judge in passing Sentence upon you. 1 Cor. 6. 2 Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the World. Christ will admit them to the Honour of judging the World with him: They shall sit with him in his Throne. Rev. 3. 21. They shall sit with Christ in his Throne of Government, and they shall sit with him in his Throne of Judgment, and shall be Judges with him when you are judged, and as such shall condemn you.
9. If you neglect the present Opportunity, and •e finally unbelieving, those that are converted in this Time of the pouring out of God's Spirit, will rise up in Judgment against you. Your Neighbours, your Relations, Acquaintance, or Companions that are converted, will that Day appear against you: They won't only be taken while you are left, mounting up with Joy to ⟨p. 163⟩