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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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That you reject Christ, and won't have him for your Saviour.
If God offers you a Saviour from deserved Punishment, and you will not receive him, then surely 'tis just that you should go without a Saviour. Or, is God obliged, because you don't like this Saviour, to provide you another? If when he has given an infinitely honourable and glorious Person, even his only begotten Son, to be a Sacrifice for Sin, in the Fire of his Wrath, and so provided Salvation, and this Saviour is offered to you, you be not suited in him, and refuse to accept of him, is God therefore unjust if he don't save you? Is he obliged to save you in a Way of your own choosing, because you don't like the Way of his choosing? Or will you charge Christ with Injustice because he don't become your Saviour, when at the same Time you won't have him, when he offers himself to you, and beseeches you to accept of him as your Saviour?
If God offers you a Saviour from deserved Punishment, and you will not receive him, then surely 'tis just that you should go without a Saviour. Or, is God obliged, because you don't like this Saviour, to provide you another? If when he has given an infinitely honourable and glorious Person, even his only begotten Son, to be a Sacrifice for Sin, in the Fire of his Wrath, and so provided Salvation, and this Saviour is offered to you, you be not suited in him, and refuse to accept of him, is God therefore unjust if he don't save you? Is he obliged to save you in a Way of your own chusing, because you don't like the Way of his chusing? Or will you charge Christ with Injustice because he don't become your Saviour, when at the same Time you won't have him, when he offers himself to you, and beseeches you to accept of him as your Saviour?
I am sensible that by this Time, many Persons are ready to open their Mouths in Objection against this: I• all should speak what they now think, we should hear a Murmuring all over the Meeting-House, and one and another would say, I can't see how this can be that I be not willing that Christ should be my Saviour, when I would give all the World that he was my Saviour: How is it Possible that I should not be willing to have Christ for my Saviour, when this is what I am seeking after, and praying for, and striving for, as for my Life?