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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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but ye have set at nought all my Counsel, and would none of my Reproof: I will laugh at your Calamity, and mock when your Fear cometh; when your Fear cometh as Desolation, and your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind; when Distress and Anguish cometh upon you: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer, they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.
6. Have you not taken Encouragement to sin against God, on that very Presumption, that God would show you Mercy when you sought it? And may not God justly ⟨p. 217⟩refuse you that Mercy that you have so presumed upon? That has been what you have flattered your self with, and that which has made you bold to disobey God, viz. That though you did so, yet God would show you Mercy when you cried earnestly to him for it: How righteous therefore would it be in God, to disappoint such a wicked Presumption? It was upon that very Hope, that you dared to affront the Majesty of Heaven, so dreadfully as you have done; and can you now be so sottish as to think that God is obliged not to frustrate that Hope?
6. Have you not taken Encouragement to sin against God, on that very Presumption, that God would show you Mercy when you sought it? And may not God justly ⟨p. 217⟩refuse you that Mercy that you have so presumed upon? That has been what you have flattered your self with, and that which has made you bold to disobey God, viz. That though you did so, yet God would shew you Mercy when you cried earnestly to him for it: How righteous therefore would it be in God, to disappoint such a wicked Presumption? It was upon that very Hope, that you dared to affront the Majesty of Heaven, so dreadfully as you have done; and can you now be so sottish as to think that God is obliged not to frustrate that Hope?