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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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Such a God is their God! Such is the Excellency of Jacob! Such is the God of them, who have forsaken their Sins and are converted! They have made a wise Choice, who have chosen this God for their God. They have made an happy Exchange indeed, that have exchanged Sin, and the World, for such a God!
They have an excellent and glorious Saviour, who is the only begotten Son of God; the Brightness of his Father's Glory; one in whom God from Eternity had infinite Delight; A Saviour of infinite Love; one that has shed his own Blood, and made his Soul an Offering for their Sins; and one that is able to save them to the uttermost.
II. Their People are an excellent and happy People. God has renewed them, and instamped his own Image upon them, and made them Partakers of his Holiness. They are more excellent than their Neighbours, Prov. 12. 26 Yea, they are the excellent of the Earth, Psalm 16. 3 They are lovely in the Sight of the Angels; and they have their Souls adorned with those Graces, that in the Sight of God him self are of great Price.