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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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but yet you in your Heart ⟨p. 234⟩will quarrel with God, and condemn him, and fret at his Dispensations, because you think he seems opposite to showing Mercy to you.—One would think that the Consideration of these Things should for ever stop your Mouth.
but yet you in your Heart ⟨p. 234⟩will quarrel with God, and condemn him, and fret at his Dispensations, because you think he seems opposite to shewing Mercy to you.—One would think that the Consideration of these Things should for ever stop your Mouth.
2. Consider how you have promoted others Damnation. Many of you by the bad Examples you have set, by corrupting the Minds of others, by your sinful Conversation, by leading them into Sin, or strengthening them in Sin, and by the Mischief that you have done in humane Society other Ways that might be mentioned, have been guilty of those Things that have tended to others Damnation. You have heretofore appeared on the Side of Sin and Satan, and have behaved your self so as much to strengthen their Interest, & have been many Ways accessary to others Sins, have hardened others Hearts, and thereby have done what has tended to the Ruin of their Souls.
2. Consider how you have promoted others Damnation. Many of you by the bad Examples you have set, by corrupting the Minds of others, by your sinful Conversation, by leading them into Sin, or strengthening them in Sin, and by the Mischief that you have done in humane Society other Ways that might be mentioned, have been guilty of those Things that have tended to others Damnation. You have heretofore appeared on the Side of Sin and Satan, and have behaved your self so as much to strengthen their Interest, & have been many Ways accessary to others Sins, have harden'd others Hearts, and thereby have done what has tended to the Ruin of their Souls.