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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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7. How have some of you risen up against God, and in the Frame of your Minds opposed him in his sovereign Dispensations! And how justly upon that Account, might God oppose you, and set himself against you! You never yet would submit to God; never could willingly comply with it that God should have Dominion over the World, and that he should govern it for his own Glory, according to his own Wisdom. You a poor Worm, a potsherd, a broken Piece of an earthen Vessel, have da•ed to find Fault, and quarrel with God. Isai. 45. 9. Woe to him that strives with his Maker. Let the Potsherd strive with the Potsherds of the Earth: Shall the Clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou? But yet you have venture• to do it. Rom. 9. 20. Who are thou, O Man, that repliest against God? But yet you have thought you was big enough; You have taken upon you to call God to an Account, why he does thus and thus; you have said to Jehovah, What dost thou?
7. How have some of you risen up against God, and in the Frame of your Minds opposed him in his sovereign Dispensations! And how justly upon that Account, might God oppose you, and set himself against you! You never yet would submit to God; never could willingly comply with it that God should have Dominion over the World, and that he should govern it for his own Glory, according to his own Wisdom. You a poor Worm, a potsherd, a broken Piece of an earthen Vessel, have da•ed to find Fault, and quarrel with God. Isai. 45. 9. Wo to him that strives with his Maker. Let the Potsherd strive with the Potsherds of the Earth: Shall the Clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou? But yet you have venture• to do it. Rom. 9. 20. Who are thou, O Man, that repliest against God? But yet you have thought you was big enough; You have taken upon you to call God to an Account, why he does thus and thus; you have said to Jehovah, What dost thou?