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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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Discourse 4: The Justice of GOD in the Damnation of Sinners.
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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.
And thus the Apostle proves that no Flesh can be justified in God's Sight, by the Deeds of the Law; as he draws the Conclusion in the following Verse; and so prepares the Way for the establishing of the great Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, which he proceeds to do, in the next Verse to that, and in the following Part of the Chapter, and of the Epistle.
DOCTRINE. 'Tis just with God eternally to cast off, and destroy Sinners.
—For this is the Punishment which the Law condemns to; which the Things that the Law says may well stop every Mouth from all Manner of Objection against.