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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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And what a wide Separation will the Sentence that shall be then passed and executed, make between you and them? When you shall be sent away out of the Presence of the Judge, with Indignation and Abhorrence, as cursed and loathsome Creatures, and they shall be sweetly accosted, and invited into his Glory, as his dear Friends, and the blessed of his Father! When you, with all that vast Throng of wicked and accursed Men and Devils, shall descend with loud Lamentings, and horrid Shri•ks, into that dreadful Gulf of Fire and B•i•nstone, and shall be swallowed up in that great and everlasting Furnace, while they shall joyfully and with sweet Songs of Glory and Praise, ascend with Christ, and all that beauteous and blessed Company of Saints and Angels, into eternal Felicity, in the glorious Presence of God, and the sweet Embraces of his Love; and you and they shall spend Eternity in such a Separation, and immensely different Circumstances! And that however you have been intimately acquainted and nearly related, closely united and mutually conversant here ⟨p. 188⟩in this World; and how much soever you have taken Delight in each others Company! Shall it be so after you have been together a great while, each of you in undoing your selves, enhancing your Guilt, and heaping up Wrath, that their so wisely changing their Minds, and their Course, and choosing such Happiness for themselves, should now at length, be the Beginning of such an exceeding and everlasting Separation between you and them? How awful will it be to be parted so!
And what a wide Seperation will the Sentence that shall be then passed and executed, make between you and them? When you shall be sent away out of the Presence of the Judge, with Indignation and Abhorrence, as cursed and loathsome Creatures, and they shall be sweetly accosted, and invited into his Glory, as his dear Friends, and the blessed of his Father! When you, with all that vast Throng of wicked and accursed Men and Devils, shall descend with loud Lamentings, and horrid Shri•ks, into that dreadful Gulf of Fire and B•i•nstone, and shall be swallowed up in that great and everlasting Furnace, while they shall joyfully and with sweet Songs of Glory and Praise, ascend with Christ, and all that beauteous and blessed Company of Saints and Angels, into eternal Felicity, in the glorious Presence of God, and the sweet Embraces of his Love; and you and they shall spend Eternity in such a Seperation, and immensely different Circumstances! And that however you have been intimately acquainted and nearly related, closely united and mutually conversant here