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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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Thus▪ it was an hard Thing for Ruth to forsake her native Country, & her Father & Mother, her Kindred and ⟨p. 182⟩Acquaintance, and all the pleasant Things she had in the Land of Moab, to dwell in the Land of Israel, where she never had been. Naomi told her of the Difficulties once and again They were too hard for her Sister O•p•h; the Consideration of them turned her back after she was set out. Her Resolution was not firm enough to overcome them. But so firmly resolved was Ruth, that she brake through all; she was steadfast in it, that let the Difficulty be what it would, she would not leave her Mother in law. So Persons had need to be very firm in their Resolution to conquer the Difficulties that are in the Way of cleaving to them, that are indeed turning from Sin to God.
Thus▪ it was an hard Thing for Ruth to forsake her native Country, & her Father & Mother, her Kindred and ⟨p. 182⟩Acquaintance, and all the pleasant Things she had in the Land of Moab, to dwell in the Land of Israel, where she never had been. Naomi told her of the Difficulties once and again They were too hard for her Sister O•p•h; the Consideration of them turned her back after she was set out. Her R•solution was not firm enough to overcome them. But so firmly resolved was Ruth, that she brake through all; she was stedfast in it, that let the Difficulty be what it would, she would not leave her Mother in law. So Persons had need to be very firm in their Resolution to conquer the Difficulties that are in the Way of cleaving to them, that are indeed turning from Sin to God.
VI. Our cleaving to them, and having their God for our God, and their People for our People, depends on our Resolution and Choice: And that in two Respects.