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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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His infinite Condescension marvellously appeared in the Manner of his Birth. He was brought forth in a Stable, because there was no Room for them in the Inn. The Inn was taken up by others, that were looked upon as Persons of greater Account. The blessed Virgin being poor and despised, was turned or shut out; tho' she was in such necessitous Circumstances, yet those that counted themselves her Betters, would not give Place to her; and therefore in the Time of her Travail she was forced to betake her self to a Stable; and when the Child was born, it was wrapped in Swaddling Clothes, and laid in a Manger; and there Christ lay a little Infant; and there he eminently appeared as a Lamb. But yet this feeble Infant that was born thus in a Stable, and laid in a Manger, was born to conquer and triumph over Satan, that roaring Lion: He came to subdue the mighty ⟨p. 259⟩Powers of Darkness, and make a Show of them openly; and so to restore Peace on Earth, and to manifest God's Good-Will towards Men, and to bring Glory to God in the highest; according as the End of his Birth was declared by the joyful Songs of the glorious Hosts of Angels, appea•••g to the Shepherds, at the same Time that the Infant lay in the Manger; whereby his divine Dignity was manifested.
His infinite Condescension marvellously appeared in the Manner of his Birth. He was brought forth in a Stable, because there was no Room for them in the Inn. The Inn was taken up by others, that were looked upon as Persons of greater Account. The blessed Virgin being poor and despised, was turned or shut out; tho' she was in such necessitous Circumstances, yet those that counted themselves her Betters, would not give Place to her; and therefore in the Time of her Travail she was forced to betake her self to a Stable; and when the Child was born, it was wrapped in Swaddling Cloaths, and laid in a Manger; and there Christ lay a little Infant; and there he eminently appeared as a Lamb. But yet this feeble Infant that was born thus in a Stable, and laid in a Manger, was born to conquer and triumph over Satan, that roaring Lion: He came to subdue the mighty ⟨p. 259⟩Powers of Darkness, and make a Shew of them openly; and so to restore Peace on Earth, and to manifest God's Good-Will towards Men, and to bring Glory to God in the highest; according as the End of his Birth was declared by the joyful Songs of the glorious Hosts of Angels, appeag to the Shepherds, at the same Time that the Infant lay in the Manger; whereby his divine Dignity was manifested.