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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 It appears in what Christ did in taking on him our Nature. In this Act his infi•i•• Cond•s••nsion wonderfully appeared; that he that was God, should become Man; that the Word should be made Flesh, and should ⟨p. 258⟩take on him a Nature infinitely below his original Nature! And it appears yet more remarkably, in the low Circumstances of his Incarnation: He was conceived in the Womb of a poor young Woman; whose Poverty appeared in that when she came to offer Sacrifices for her Purification, she brought what was allowed of in the Law, only in Case of Poverty; as Luke 2 34. According to that which is said in the Law of the Lord, a Pair of Turtle Doves, or two young Pigeons. This was allowed only in Case the Person was so Poor, that she was not able to offer a Lamb. Levit. 12. 8.
I It appears in what Christ did in taking on him our Nature. In this Act his infi•i•• Cond•s••nsion wonderfully appeared; that he that was God, should become Man; that the Word should be made Flesh, and should ⟨p. 258⟩take on him a Nature infinitely below his original Nature! And it appears yet more remarkably, in the low Circumstances of his Incarnation: He was conceived in the Womb of a poor young Woman; whose Poverty appeared in that when she came to offer Sacrifices for her Purification, she brought what was allowed of in the Law, only in Case of Poverty; as Luke 2 34. According to that which is said in the Law of the Lord, a Pair of Turtle Doves, or two young Pidgeons. This was allowed only in Case the Person was so Poor, that she was not able to offer a Lamb.