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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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2. The Wonderfulness of the Way in which these Benefits are procured and offered. That God should lay Help on his own Son, when our Case was so deplorable that Help could be had in no mere Creature; and that He should undertake for us, and should come into the World, and take upon him our Nature, and should ⟨p. 231⟩not only appear in a low State of Life, but should die such a Death, and endure such Torments and Contempt for Sinners while Enemies, How wonderful is it! And what Tongue or Pen can set forth the Greatness of the Ingratitude, Baseness and Perverseness that there is in it, when a perishing Sinner that is in the most extreme Necessity of Salvation, rejects it, after it is procured in such a Way as this! That so glorious a Person should be thus treated, and that when he comes on so gracious an Errand! That he should stand so long offering himself, and calling and inviting, as he has done to many of you, and all to no Purpose, but all the while be set at nought!—Surely you might justly be cast into Hell without one more Offer of a Saviour! Yea, and thrust down into the lowest Hell! Herein you have exceeded the very Devils; for they never rejected the Offers of such glorious Mercy; no, nor of any Mercy at all. This will be the distinguishing Condemnation of Gospel Sinners, John 3. 18. He that hath not believed is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.
2. The Wonderfulness of the Way in which these Benefits are procured and offered. That God should lay Help on his own Son, when our Case was so deplorable that Help could be had in no meer Creature; and that He should undertake for us, and should come into the World, and take upon him our Nature, and should ⟨p. 231⟩not only appear in a low State of Life, but should die such a Death, and endure such Torments and Contempt for Sinners while Enemies, How wonderful is it! And what Tongue or Pen can set forth the Greatness of the Ingratitude, Baseness and Perverseness that there is in it, when a perishing Sinner that is in the most extreme Necessity of Salvation, rejects it, after it is procured in such a Way as this! That so glorious a Person should be thus treated, and that when he comes on so gracious an Errand! That he should stand so long offering himself, and calling and inviting, as he has done to many of you, and all to no Purpose, but all the while be set at nought!—Surely you might justly be cast into Hell without one more Offer of a Saviour! Yea, and thrust down into the lowest Hell! Herein you have exceeded the very Devils; for they never rejected the Offers of such glorious Mercy; no, nor of any Mercy at all. This will be the distinguishing Condemnation of Gospel Sinners,