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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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How many Sorts of Wickedness have you been guilty of? How manifold have been the Abominations of your Life? What Profaneness and Contempt of God has been exercised by you? How little Regard have you had to the Scriptures, to the Word preached, to Sabbaths, and Sacraments? How profanely have you talked, many of you, about those Things that are holy? After what Manner have many of you kept God's holy Day, not regarding the Holiness of the Time, not caring what you thought of in it. Yea, you have not only spent the Time in worldly, vain, and unprofitable Thoughts, but in immoral Thoughts; pleasing your self with the Reflection on past Acts of Wickedness, and in contriving new Acts. Have not you spent much holy Time, in gratifying your Lusts in your Imaginations; yea not only ⟨p. 206⟩holy Time, but the very Time of God's public Worship, when you have appeared in God's more immediate Presence? How have you not only not attended to the Worship, but have in the mean time been feasting your Lusts, and wallowing your self in abominable Uncleanness! How many Sabbaths have you spent, one after another, in a most wretched Manner! Some of you not only in worldly and wicked Thoughts, but also a very wicked outward Behaviour! When you on Sabbath• Days, have got along with your wicked Companions, how has holy Time been treated among you! What Kind of Conversation has there been! Yea, how have some of you by a very indecent Carriage, openly dishonoured and cast Contempt on the sacred Services of God's House, and holy Day! And what you have done some of you alone, what wicked Practices there have been in Secret, even in holy Time, God and your own Consciences know.
How many Sorts of Wickedness have you been guilty of? How manifold have been the Abominations of your Life? What Profaneness and Contempt of God has been exercised by you? How little Regard have you had to the Scriptures, to the Word preached, to Sabbaths, and Sacraments? How profanely have you talked, many of you, about those Things that are holy? After what Manner have many of you kept God's holy Day, not regarding the Holiness of the Time, not caring what you thought of in it. Yea, you have not only spent the Time in worldly, vain, and unprofitable Thoughts, but in immoral Thoughts; pleasing your self with the Reflection on past Acts of Wickedness, and in contriving new Acts. Have not you spent much holy Time, in gratifying your Lusts in your Imaginations; yea not only ⟨p. 206⟩