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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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1. Then was Christ in the greatest Degree of his Humiliation, and yet by that, above all other Things, his divine Glory appears Christ's Humiliation was great, in being born in such a low Condition, of a poor Virgin, and in a Stable: His Humiliation was great, in being subject to Joseph the Carpenter, and Mary his Mother, and afterwards in living in Poverty, so as not to have where to lay his Head, and in suffering such manifold and bitter Reproaches as he suffered, while he went about preaching and working Miracles: But his Humiliation was never so great, as it was in his last Sufferings, beginning with his Agony in the Garden, till he expired on the Cross. Never was he subject to such ignominy as then; never did he suffer so much Pain in his Body, or so much Sorrow in his Soul; never was he in so great an Exercise of his Condescension, Humility, Meekness, and Patience, as he was in these last Sufferings; never was his divine Glory and Majesty covered with so thick and dark a Veil; never did he so empty himself, and make himself of no Reputation, as at this—Time: And yet never was his divine Glory so manifested, by any Act of his, as in that Act, of yielding himself up to these Sufferings.—When the Fruit of it came to appear, and the Mystery and Ends of it to be unfolded, in the Issue of it, then did the Glory of it appear; then did it appear, as the most glorious Act of Christ that ever he exercised towards the Creature. This Act of his is celebrated by the Angels and Hosts of Heaven with peculiar Praises, as that which is above all others glorious, as you may see in the Context, Verse 9. &c. ⟨p. 263⟩And they sung a new Song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the Book, and to open the Seals thereof, FOR THOU WAST SLAIN, and hast redeemed us to God BY THY BLOOD, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People, and Nation, and hast made us, to our God, Kings, and Priests, and we shall reign on Earth. And I beheld, and I heard the Voice of many Angels, round about the Throne, and the Beasts, and the Elders, and the Number of them was ten thousand Times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying, with a loud Voice, Worthy is the Lamb THAT WAS SLAIN, to receive Power, and Riches, and Wisdom, and Strength, and Honour, and Glory, and Blessing.