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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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What Revenge and Malice have you been guilty of towards your Neighbours? How have you indulged this Spirit of the Devil, •hating others, and wishing Evil to them, rejoicing when Evil befell them, and grieving at others Prosperity, and lived in such a Way for a long Time!—Have not some of you allowed a passionate furious Spirit, and behaved your selves in your Anger more like wild Beasts, than like Christians?
What Revenge and Malice have you been guilty of towards your Neighbours? How have you indulged this Spirit of the Devil, •hating others, and wishing Evil to them, rejoycing when Evil befell them, and grieving at others Prosperity, and lived in such a Way for a long Time!—Have not some of you allowed a passionate furious Spirit, and behaved your selves in your Anger more like wild Beasts, than like Christians?
What Covetousness has been in many of you? Such has been your inordinate Love of the World, and Care about the Things of it, that it has taken up your Heart; you have allowed no Room for God and Religion; you have minded the World more than your eternal Salvation. For the Vanities of the World, you have neglected Reading, Praying, and Meditation: For the Things of the World, you have broken the Sabbath: For the World you have spent a great Deal of your Time in Quarrelling: For the World you have envied, and hated your Neighbour: For the World you have cast God, and Christ, and Heaven behind your Back: For the World you have sold your own Soul: You have as it were drowned your Soul in worldly Cares and Desires: You have been a mere Earth-Worm, that is never in its Element but when grovelling and buried in the Earth.
What Coveteousness has been in many of you? Such has been your inordinate Love of the World, and Care about the Things of it, that it has taken up your Heart; you have allowed no Room for God and Religion; you have minded the World more than your eternal Salvation. For the Vanities of the World, you have neglected Reading, Praying, and Meditation: For the Things of the World, you have broken the Sabbath: For the World you have spent a great Deal of your Time in Quarrelling: For the World you have envied, and hated your Neighbour: For the World you have cast God, and Christ, and Heaven behind your Back: For the World you have sold your own Soul: You have as it were drowned your Soul in worldly Cares and Desires: You have been a meer Earth-Worm, that is never in its Element but when grovelling and buried in the Earth.