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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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Let these Considerations move every one to be improving this Opportunity, that while others receive saving Good, and are made Heirs of eternal Glory, you may not be left behind, in the same miserable doleful Circumstances in which you came into the World, a poor Captive to Sin and Satan, a lost Sheep a perishing u•d•ne Creature, sinking down into everlasting Perdition; that you may not be one of them spoken of, Jer 17 6. that shall be like the Heath in the Desert, and shall not see Good when Good comes.—If you don't improve this Opportunity, remember I have told you, you will hereafter lament it; and if you don't lament it in this World, then I will leave it wi•h you for you to remember throughout a miserable Eternity.
Let these Considerations move every one to be improving this Opportunity, that while others receive saving Good, and are made Heirs of eternal Glory, you may not be left behind, in the same miserable doleful Circumstances in which you came into the World, a poor Captive to Sin and Satan, a lost She•p a perishing u•d•ne Creature, sinking down into everlasting Perdition; that you may not be one of them spoken of, Jer 17 6. that shall be like the Heath in the Desert, and shall not see Good when Good comes.—If you don't improve this Opportunity, remember I have told you, you will hereafter lament it; and if you don't lament it in this World, then I will leave it wi•h you for you to remember throughout a miserable Eternity.
II. I would address my self to such as yet remain unawakened 'Tis an awful Thing that there should be any one Person remaining secure amongst us, at such a Time a• this; but yet it is to be feared that there are some of this Sort▪ I would here a little expostulate with such Persons.