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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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Secondly. Be directed to consider, If God should eternally reject and destroy you, what an Agreeableness, and exact mutual Answerableness, there would be between God's so dealing with you, and your Spirit and Behaviour. There would not only be an Equality but a Similitude. God declares that his Dealings with Men, shall be suitable to their Disposition and Practice. Psalm 18. 25, 26. With the merciful Man, thou wilt show thy self merciful: With an upright Man, thou wilt show thy self Upright: With the Pure, thou wilt show thy self Pure: and with the Froward, thou wilt show thy self Froward. How much soever you dread Damnation, and are affrighted and concerned at the Thoughts of it; yet if God should indeed eternally damn you, you would but be met with in your own Way: you would be dealt with exactly according to your own Dealing; God would but measure to you, in the same Measure in which you mete.—Surely 'tis but fair that you should be made to buy in the same Measure in which you •ell.
Secondly. Be directed to consider, If God should eternally reject and destroy you, what an Agreableness, and exact mutual Answerableness, there would be between God's so dealing with you, and your Spirit and Behaviour. There would not only be an Equality but a Similitude. God declares that his Dealings with Men, shall be sutable to their Disposition and Practice. Psalm 18. 25, 26. With the merciful Man, thou wilt shew thy self merciful: With an upright Man, thou wilt shew thy self Upright: With the Pure, thou wilt shew thy self Pure: and with the Froward, thou wilt shew thy self Froward. How much soever you dread Damnation, and are affrighted and concerned at the Thoughts of it; yet if God should indeed eternally damn you, you would but be met with in your own Way: you would be dealt with exactly according to your own Dealing; God would but measure to you, in the same Measure in which you mete.—Surely 'tis but fair that you should be made to buy in the same Measure in which you •ell.