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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 outward Smoothness of your Carriage towards Christ, that Appearance of Respect to Him in your Looks, your Speeches, and Gestures, don't argue but that you set him at nought in your Heart. There may be much of these outward Shows of Respect, and yet you be like Judas that betrayed the Son of Man with a kiss; and like those Mockers that bowed the Knee before him, and at the same Time spit in his Face.
That outward Smoothness of your Carriage towards Christ, that Appearance of Respect to Him in your Looks, your Speeches, and Gestures, don't argue but that you set him at nought in your Heart. There may be much of these outward Shews of Respect, and yet you be like Judas that betrayed the Son of Man with a kiss; and like those Mockers that bowed the Knee before him, and at the same Time spit in his Face.
III. If God should for ever cast you off and destroy you, it would be agreeable to your Treatment of others: It would be no other than what would be exactly answerable to your Behaviour towards your Fellow Creatures, that have the same humane […], and are naturally in the •ame Circumstances with you, and that you ought to love as your self. And that appears especially in two Things.
III. If God should for ever cast you off and destroy you, it would be agreable to your Treatment of others: It would be no other than what would be exactly answerable to your Behaviour towards your Fellow Creatures, that have the same humane 〈…〉, and are naturally in the •ame Circumstances with you, and th•t you ought to love as your self. And that appears especially in two Things.