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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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I. There is a Conjunction of such Excellencies in Christ, as, in our Manner of conceiving, are very diverse one from another.
II. There is in him a Conjunction of such really diverse Excellencies, as otherwise would have seemed to us utterly incompatible in the same Subject.
III. Such diverse Excellencies are exercised in him towards Men, that otherwise would have seemed impossible to be exercised towards the same Object.
I. There is a Conjunction of such Excellencies in Christ. as, in our Manner of conceiving, are very diverse one from another. Such are the various divine Perfections and Excellencies that Christ is possessed of. Christ is a divine Person, or one that is God; and therefore has all ⟨p. 248⟩the Attributes of God. The Difference there is between these is chiefly relative, and in our Manner of conceiving of them. And those that in this Sense are most Diverse, do meet in the Person of Christ. I shall mention two Instances.