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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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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.
The People of God are the most excellent and happy Society in the World. That God whom they have chosen for their God, is their Father; he has pardoned all their Sins, and they are at Peace with him; and he has admitted them to all the Privileges of his Children. As they have devoted themselves to God, so God has given himself to them: He is become their Salvation, and their Portion: His Power and Mercy, and all his ⟨p. 179⟩Attributes are theirs. They are in a safe State, free from all Possibility of perishing: Satan has no Power to destroy them. God carries them on Eagles Wings, far above Satan's Reach, and above the Reach of all the Enemies of their Souls. God is with them in this World; they have his gracious Presence: God is for them; Who then can be against them? As the Mountains are round about Jerusalem, so JEHOVAH is round about them. God is their Shield, and their exceeding great Reward; and their Fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: And they have the divine Promise and Oath, that in the World to come, they shall dwell for ever in the glorious Presence of God.
It may well be sufficient to induce us to resolve to cleave to those that forsake their Sins and Idols, to join themselves with this People, that God is with them.