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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.
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.
And how have some of you behaved your selves in your Family Relations! How have you neglected your Children's Souls! And not only so, but have corrupted their Minds by your bad Examples; and instead of training them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord, have rather brought them up in the Devil's Service!
How have some of you attended that sacred Ordinance of the Lord's Supper, without any Manner of serious Preparation, and in a careless slighty Frame of Spirit, and chiefly to comply with Custom! Have you not ventured to put the sacred Symbols of the Body & Blood of Christ into your Mouth, while at the same Time you lived in Ways of known Sins and intended no other than still to go on in the same wicked Practices? And it may be have sat at the Lord's Table, with Rancour in your Heart against some of your Brethren, that you have sat there with. You have come even to that holy Feast of Love among God's children, with the leaven of Malice and Envy in your Heart; and so have eat and drank Judgment to your self.
What Stupidity and Sottishness has atten••• your Course of Wickedness! Which has appeared •n your Obstinacy under awakening Dispensations of God's Word and Providence. And how have some of you backsliden, after you have set out in Religion, and quenched God's Spirit after he had been striving with you! And what Unsteadiness, and Slothfulness, and great Misimprovement of God's Strivings with you, have you been chargeable with, that have long been the Subject of them!
What Stupidity and Sattishness has atten••• your Course of Wickedness! Which has appeared •n your Obstinacy under awakening Dispensations of God's Word and Providence. And how have some of you backsliden, after you have set out in Religion, and quenched God's Spirit after he had been striving with you! And what Unsteadiness, and Slothfulness, and great Misimprovement of God's Strivings with you, have you been chargeable with, that have long been the Subject of them!