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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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DISCOURSE, V.
REV. V. 5, 6. AND one of the Elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold the LION of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book, and to lo•se the seven Seals thereof. And I beheld, and to in the midst of the Throne, and of the four Beasts, and in the midst of the Elders, stood a LAMB, as it had been slain—.
REV. V. 5, 6. AND one of the Elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold the LION of the Tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book, and to lo•se the seven Seals thereof. And I beheld, and to in the midst of the Throne, and of the four Beasts, and in the midst of the Elders, stood a LAMB, as it had been slain—.
THE Visions and Revelations that the Apostle John had of the future Events of God's Providence, are here introduced with a Vision of the Book of God's Decrees, by which those Events were fore ordained; which is represented in the first Verse of this Chapter, as a Book in the Right Hand of him that sat on the Throne, written within, and on the back Side, and sealed with seven Seals. Books in the Form in which ⟨p. 245⟩they were wont of old to be made, were broad Leaves of Parchment, or Paper, or something of that Nature, joined together at one Edge, and so rolled up together, and then sealed, or some Way fastened together, to prevent their unfolding and opening. Hence we read of the Roll of a Book,