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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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If you have been restrained by Fear from openly venting your Opposition, and Enmity of Heart against God's ⟨p. 220⟩Government, yet it has been in you; you have not been quiet in the Frame of your Mind; you have had the Heart of a Viper within, and have been ready to spit Venom at God: And 'tis well if sometimes you have not actually done it, by tolerating blasphemous Thoughts, and malignant Risings of Heart against him; yea, and the Frame of your Heart in some Measure appeared, in an impatient and fretful Behaviour.
If you have been restrain'd by Fear from openly venting your Opposition, and Enmity of Heart against God's ⟨p. 220⟩Government, yet it has been in you; you have not been quiet in the Frame of your Mind; you have had the Heart of a Viper within, and have been ready to spit Venom at God: And 'tis well if sometimes you have not actually done it, by tolerating blasphemous Thoughts, and malignant Risings of Heart against him; yea, and the Frame of your Heart in some Measure appeared, in an impatient and fretful Behaviour.
Now, seeing you have thus opposed God, how just is it that God should oppose you! Or, is it because you are so much better, and so much greater than God, that 'tis a Crime for God to make that Opposition against you that you do against him? Do you think you ought to appropriate the Liberty of making Opposition to your self, as being your Prerogative, so that you may be an Enemy to God, but God must by no Means be an Enemy to you, but must be looked upon under Obligation never the less to help you and save you by his Blood, and bestow his best Blessings upon you?