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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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II. If you should be for ever cast off by God, it would be agreeable to your Treatment of Jesus Christ. It would have been just with God if he had cast you off for ever, without ever making you the Offer of a Saviour. ⟨p. 221⟩But God hath not done that; but has provided a Saviour for Sinners, and offered him to you, even his own Son Jesus Christ; who is the only Saviour of Men; all that be not forever cast off are saved by him: God offers Men Salvation through him,▪ and has promised us that if we come to him we shall not be cast off▪ But you have treated, and still treat this Saviour after such a Manner, that if you should be eternally cast off by God, it would be most agreeable to your Behaviour towards him; which appears by this, viz.
II. If you should be for ever cast off by God, it would be agreable to your Treatment of Jesus Christ. It would have been just with God if he had cast you off for ever, without ever making you the Offer of a Saviour. ⟨p. 221⟩But God hath not done that; but has provided a Saviour for Sinners, and offered him to you, even his own Son Jesus Christ; who is the only Saviour of Men; all that be not forever cast off are saved by him: God offers Men Salvation through him,▪ and has promised us that if we come to him we shall not be cast off▪ But you have treated, and still treat this Saviour after such a Manner, that if you should be eternally cast off by God, it would be most agreable to your Behaviour towards him; which appears by this, viz.
That you reject Christ, and won't have him for your Saviour.