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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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2. It is a great deal more likely with Respect to such Persons than others, that this is their last Time. There will be a last Time of any special Offer of Salvation to impenitent Sinners. God's Spirit shall not always strive with Man, Gen. 6 3. God sometimes continues long knocking at the Doors of wicked Men's Hearts; but there are the last Knocks, and the last Calls, that ever they shall have. And sometimes God's last Calls are the loudest, and then if Sinners don't hearken, God finally leaves them. How long has God been knocking at many of your Doors, that are old in Sin! 'Tis a great deal more likely that these are his last Knocks. You have resisted God's Spirit in Times past, and have hardened your Heart once and again; but God will not be thus dealt with always: There is Danger, that if now, after so long a Time, you won't hearken, he will utterly desert you, and leave you to walk in your own Counsels.
2. It is a great deal more likely with Respect to such Persons than others, that this is their last Time. There will be a last Time of any special Offer of Salvation to impenitent Sinners. God's Spirit shall not always strive with Man, Gen. 6 3. God sometimes continues long knocking at the Doors of wicked Men's Hearts; but there are the last Knocks, and the last Calls, that ever they shall have. And sometimes God's last Calls are the loudest, and then if Sinners don't hearken, God finally leaves them. How long has God been knocking at many of your Doors, that are old in Sin! 'Tis a great deal more likely that these are his last Knocks. You have resisted God's Spirit in Times past, and have harden'd your Heart once and again; but God will not be thus dealt with always: There is Danger, that if now, after so long a Time, you won't hearken, he will utterly desert you, and leave you to walk in your own Counsels.
It seems, by God's Providence, as tho' God had yet an elect Number amongst old Sinners in this Place, that perhaps he is now about to bring in. It looks as tho' there were some that long lived under Mr.Stoddard's Ministry, that God has not utterly cast off, tho' they so stood it out under such great Means as they then enjoyed. 'Tis to be hoped that God will now bring in a Remnant from among them. But 'tis the more likely that God is now about finishing with them, one Way or the other, for their having been so long the Subjects of such extraordinary Means. You have seen former Tmes of the pouring out of God's Spirit upon the Town, when others were taken and you left, others were called out of Darkness into marvellous Light, and were brought into a glorious and happy State, and you was one that saw not Good when Good came. How dark will your Circumstances appear, if you shall also stand it out through this Opportunity, and still be left behind! Take heed that you be not one of those spoken of, Heb 6. 7. 8. that are like the Earth that has Rain coming ot upon it,