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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. I would particularly observe that wherein the Virtuousness of this her Resolution consists, viz. That it was for the Sake of the God of Israel, & that she might be one of His People, that the was thus resolved to cleave to Naomi: Thy People shall be my People, and thy God, my God. It was for God's Sake that she did thus; and therefore her so doing is afterwards spoken of as a Virtuous Behaviour in her, Chap. 2. 11, 12 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that thou hast done unto thy Mother in law, since the Death of thine Husband, and •ow thou hast left thy Father, and thy Mother, and the Land of thy Nativity, and art come unto a People which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy Work, and a full Reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose Wings thou art come to trust. She left her Father and Mother, and the Land of her Nativity, to come and trust under the Shadow of God's Wings; and she had indeed a full Reward given her as Boaz wished; for besides immediate spiritual Blessings to her own Soul, and eternal Rewards in another World, she was rewarded with plentiful, and prosperous outward Circumstances, in the Family of Boaz; and God raised up David and Solomon of her Seed, and established the Crown of Israel, (the People that she ⟨p. 176⟩chose before her own People) in her Posterity, and (which is much more) of her Seed he raised up Jesus Christ, in whom all the Families of the Earth are blessed.
2. I would particularly observe that wherein the Virtuousness of this her Resolution consists, viz. That it was for the Sake of the God of Israel, & that she might be one of His People, that the was thus resolved to cleave to Naomi: Thy People shall be my People, and thy God, my God. It was for God's Sake that she did thus; and therefore her so doing is afterwards spoken of as a Virtuous Behaviour in her, Chap. 2. 11, 12 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy Mother in law, since the Death of thine Husband, and •ow thou hast left thy Father, and thy Mother, and the Land of thy Nativity, and art come unto a People which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompence thy Work, and a full Reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose Wings thou art come to trust. She left her Father and Mother, and the Land of her Nativity, to come and trust under the Shadow of God's Wings; and she had indeed a full Reward given her as Boaz wish'd; for besides immediate spiritual Blessings to her own Soul, and eternal Rewards in another World, she was rewarded with plentiful, and prosperous outward Circumstances, in the Family of Boaz; and God raised up David and Solomon of her Seed, and established the Crown of Israel, (the People that she