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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.
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 Light of Nature teaches all Mankind, that when an Injury is voluntary, it is Faulty, without any Manner of Consideration of what there might be previously to determine the Futurition of that evil Act of the Will: And it really teaches this, as much to those that object and cavil most, as to others; as their universal Practice shows. By which it appears that such Objections are insincere and perverse—Men will mention others corrupt Nature in their own Case, o• when they are injured, as a Thing that aggravates their Crime, and that wherein their Faultiness partly consists. How common is it for Persons, when they look on themselves greatly injured by another, to inveigh against him, and aggravate his Baseness, by saying, He is a Man of a most perverse Spirit: He is naturally of a selfish, niggardly, or proud and haughty Temper: He is one of a base and vile Disposition. And yet Men's natural corrupt Dispositions are mentioned as an Excuse for them, with Respect to their Sins against God, and as […] they rendered them Blameless.
The Light of Nature teaches all Mankind, that when an Injury is voluntary, it is Faulty, without any Manner of Consideration of what there might be previously to determine the Futurition of that evil Act of the Will: And it really teaches this, as much to those that object and cavil most, as to others; as their universal Practice shews. By which it appears that such Objections are insincere and perverse—Men will mention others corrupt Nature in their own Case, o• when they are injured, as a Thing that aggravates their Crime, and that wherein their Faultiness partly consists. How common is it for Persons, when they look on themselves greatly injured by another, to inveigh against him, and aggravate his Baseness, by saying, He is a Man of a most pervese Spirit: He is naturally of a selfish, niggardly, or proud and haughty Temper: He is one of a base and vile Disposition. And yet Men's natural corrupt Dispositions are mentioned as an Excuse for them, with Respect to their Sins against God, and as 〈…〉 they rendered them Blameless.