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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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Secondly, Because this History seems to be typical of the Calling of the Gentile Church, and indeed of the Conversion of every Believer. Ruth was not originally of Israel, but was a Moabitess, an Alien from the Common-Wealth of Israel: But she forsook her own People, and the Idols of the Gentiles, to worship the God of Israel, and to join her self to that People: Herein she seems to be a Type of the Gentile Church, and also of every sincere Convert. Ruth was the Mother of Christ; He came of her Posterity: so the Church is Christ's Mother, as she is represented, Rev 12. at the Beginning. And so also is every true Christian his Mother. M•tth 12. 50 Whosoever shall do the Will of my Father which is in Heaven, the same is my Brother, and Sister, and Mother. Christ is what the Soul of every one of the Elect is in Travail with, in the New-Birth. Ruth forsook all her natural Relations, and her own Country, the Land of her Nativity, and all her former Possessions there, for the sake of the God of Israel; as every true Christian forsakes all for Christ. Psalm 45. 10. Hearken O Daughter, and consider, and incline thine Ear; forget also thine own People, and thy Father's House.
Naomi was now returning out of the Land of Moab, into the Land of Israel, with her two Daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth; who well represent to us, two Sorts of Professors of Religion; Orpah that Sort, that indeed make a fair Profession, and seem to set out well, but dure but for a while, and then turn back; Ruth that Sort, that are sound and sincere, and therefore are steadfast and persevering in the Way that they have set out in. Naomi, in the preceding Verses represents to these her Daughters the Difficulties of their leaving their own Country to go with her. And in this Verse may be observed,
Naomi was now returning out of the Land of Moab, into the Land of Israel, with her two Daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth; who well represent to us, two Sorts of Professors of Religion; Orpah that Sort, that indeed make a fair Profession, and seem to set out well, but dure but for a while, and then turn back; Ruth that Sort, that are sound and sincere, and therefore are stedfast and persevering in the Way that they have set out in. Naomi, in the preceeding Verses represents to these her Daughters the Difficulties of their leaving their own Country to go with her. And in this Verse may be observed,