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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Discourse 4: The Justice of GOD in the Damnation of Sinners.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Things that the Law says, are sufficient to stop the Mouths of all Mankind, in two Respects.
1. To stop them from boasting of their Righteousness, as the Jews were wont to do; as the Apostle observes in the 23. Verse of the preceding Chapter.—That the Apostle has Respect to stopping their Mouths in this Respect, appears by the 27th Verse of the Context, Where is Boasting then? It is excluded. The Law stops our Mouths from making of any Plea for Life, or the Favour of God, o• any positive Good, from our own Righteousness
1. To stop them from boasting of their Righteousness, as the Jews were wont to do; as the Apostle observes in the 23. Verse of the preceeding Chapter.—That the Apostle has Respect to stopping their Mouths in this Respect, appears by the 27th Verse of the Context, Where is Boasting then? It is excluded. The Law stops our Mouths from making of any Plea for Life, or the Favour of God, o• any posi•ive Good, from our own Righteousness
2. To stop them from making any Excuse for our selves, or Objection against the Execution of the Sentence of the Law, or the Infliction of the Punishment that it threatens. That this is intended, appears by the Words immediately following, That all the World may become guilty before God. That is that they may appear to be guilty, and stand convicted before God, and justly liable to the Condemnation of his Law, as guilty of Death, according to the jewish Way of Speaking.