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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 yet, in the same Person, is found the greatest Spirit of Obedience to the Commands and Law of God that ever was in the Universe; which was manifest in his Obedience here in this World▪ John. 14 31. As the Father gave me Commandment, even so I do. John. 15 10. ⟨p. 255⟩Even as I have kept my Father's Commandments, and abide in his Love. The Greatness of his Spirit of Obedience appears in the Perfection of his Obedience, and in his obeying Commands of such exceeding Difficulty. Never any one received Commands from God, of such Difficulty, and that were so great a Trial of Obedience, as Jesus Christ. One of God's Commands to him was, that he should yield himself to those dreadful Sufferings that he underwent. See John 10. 18. No Man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self.—This Commandment received I of my Father. And Christ was throughly obedient to this Command of God. Heb. 5. 8. Though he were a Son, yet learned he Obedience by the Things that he suffered. Philip. 2 8. He humbled himself, and became obedient unto Death, even the Death of the Cross. Never was there such an Instance of Obedience in Man nor Angel, as this; though he that obeyed was at the same Time, supreme Lord of both Angels and Men.
6. In the Person of Christ are conjoined absolute Sovereignty, and perfect Resignation. This is another unparalleled Conjunction. Christ as he is God, is the absolute Sovereign of the World: He is the sovereign Disposer of all Events. The Decrees of God are all his sovereign Decrees; and the Work of Creation, and all God's Works of Providence, are his sovereign Works. 'Tis he that worketh all Things according to the Counsel of his own Will.