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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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2. He never in any Act gave so great a Manifestation of Love to God, and yet never so manifested his Love to those that were Enemies to God, as in that Act. Christ never did any Thing whereby his Love to the Father was so eminently manifested, as in his laying down his Life, under such inexpressible Sufferings, in Obedience to his Command, and for the Vindication of the Honour of his Authority and Majesty; nor did ever any mere Creature give such a Testimony of Love to God as that was: And yet this was the greatest Expression of all, of his Love to sinful Men, that were Enemies to God, Rom. 5. 10. While we were Enemies, we were reconciled to God, by the Death of his Son. The Greatness of Christ's Love to such, appears in nothing so much, as in it's being dying Love. That Blood of Christ that was sweat out, and fell in great Drops to the Ground, in his Agony, was shed from Love to God's Enemies, and his own. That Shame and Spitting, that Torment of Body, and that exceeding Sorrow, even unto Death, that he endured in his Soul, was what he underwent from Love to Rebels against God, to save them from Hell, and to purchase for them eternal Glory.—Never did Christ so eminently show his Regard to God's Honour, as in offering up himself a Victim to revenging Justice, to vindicate God's Honour: And yet in this above all, he manifested his Love to them that dishonoured God, so as to bring such Guilt on themselves, that nothing less than his Blood could atone for it.
2. He never in any Act gave so great a Manifestation of Love to God, and yet never so manifested his Love to those that were Enemies to God, as in that Act. Christ never did any Thing whereby his Love to the Father was so eminently manifested, as in his laying down his Life, under such inexpressible Sufferings, in Obedience to his Command, and for the Vindication of the Honour of his Authority and Majesty; nor did ever any meer Creature give such a Testimony of Love to God as that was: And yet this was the greatest Expression of all, of his Love to sinful Men, that were Enemies to God, Rom. 5. 10. While we were Enemies, we were reconciled to God, by the Death of his Son. The Greatness of Christ's Love to such, appears in nothing so much, as in it's being dying Love. That Blood of Christ that was sweat out, and fell in great Drops to the Ground, in his Agony, was shed from Love to God's Enemies, and his own. That Shame and Spitting, that Torment of Body, and that exceeding Sorrow, even unto Death, that he endured in his Soul, was what he underwent from Love to Rebels against God, to save them from Hell, and to purchase for them eternal Glory.—Never did Christ so eminently shew his Regard to God's Honour, as in offering up himself a Victim to revenging Justice, to vindicate God's Honour: And yet in this above all, he manifested his Love to them that dishonoured God, so as to bring such Guilt on themselves, that nothing less than his Blood could atone for it.