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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. 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.
And without Doubt there are those here present, that have been in a great Measure the Means of others Damnation. Though it is true that it is determined of God who he will save, and who not, from all Eternity, yet one Man may really be a Means of others Damnation, as well as Salvation. Christ charges the Scribes and Pharisees with this, Matth. 23. 13. Ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against Men; for ye neither go in your selves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. We have no Reason to think that this Congregation has none in it, that are cursed from Day to Day, by poor Souls that are roaring out in Hell, whose Damnation they have been a Means of, or have greatly contributed to.
And without Doubt there are those here present, that have been in a great Measure the Means of others Damnation. Though it is true that it is determined of God who he will save, and who not, from all Eternity, yet one Man may really be a Means of others Damnation, as well as Salvation. Christ charges the Scribes and Pharisees with this,