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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.
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!
Now, can you think when you have thus behaved your self, that God is obliged to show you Mercy? Are ⟨p. 210⟩you not after all this ashamed to talk of its being hard with God to cast you off? Does it become one that has lived such a Life, to open his Mouth to excuse himself, or object against God's Justice in his Condemnation, or to complain of it as hard in God not to give him converting and pardoning Grace, and make him his Child, and bestow on him eternal Life! Or to talk of his Duties and great Pains in Religion, and such like Things, as if such Performances were worthy to be accepted, and to draw God's Heart to such a Creature! If this has been your Manner, does it not show how little you have considered your self, and how little a Sense you have had of your own Sinfulness?
Now, can you think when you have thus behaved your self, that God is obliged to shew you Mercy? Are