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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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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, 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 entring 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.
There are many that contribute to their own Children's Damnation, by neglecting their Education and setting them bad Examples, and bringing them up in sinful Ways: They take some Care of their Bodies, but take but little Care of their poor Souls; they provide for them Bread to eat, but deny them the Bread of Life that their famishing Souls stand in Need of• And are there no such Parents here that have thus treated their ⟨p. 235⟩Children? If their Children be not gone to Hell, 'tis no thank to them; 'tis not because they have not done what has tended to their Destruction.—Seeing therefore you have had no more Regard to others Salvation, and have promoted their Damnation, how justly might God leave you to perish your self?