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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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In this the diverse Excellencies that met in the Person of Christ appeared, viz. His infinite Regard to God's Justice, and such Love to those that have exposed themselves to it, as induced him thus to yield himself a Sacrifice to it.
4. Christ's Holiness never so illustriously shone forth, as it did in his last Sufferings; and yet he never was to such a Degree, treated as Guilty. Christ's Holiness never had such a Trial, as it had then; and therefore never had so great a Manifestation. When it was tried in this Furnace, it came forth as, Gold, or as Silver purified seven Times. His Holiness then above all appeared in ⟨p. 265⟩his steadfast Pursuit of the Honour of God, and in his Obedience to him: For his yielding himself unto Death was transcendently the greatest Act of Obedience, that ever was paid to God, by any one since the Foundation of the World.
4. Christ's Holiness never so illustriously shone forth, as it did in his last Sufferings; and yet he never was to such a Degree, treated as Guilty. Christ's Holiness never had such a Trial, as it had then; and therefore never had so great a Manifestation. When it was tried in this Furnace, it came forth as, Gold, or as Silver purified seven Times. His Holiness then above all appeared in ⟨p. 265⟩his stedfast Pursuit of the Honour of God, and in his Obedience to him: For his yielding himself unto Death was transcendently the greatest Act of Obedience, that ever was paid to God, by any one since the Foundation of the World.
And yet then Christ was in the greatest Degree treated as a wicked Person. He was apprehended and bound as a Malefactor. His Accusers represented him as a most wicked Wretch. In his Sufferings before his Crucifixion he was treated as if he had been the worst and vilest of Mankind; and then, he was put to a Kind of Death, that none but the worst Sort of Malefactors were wont to suffer, those that were most abject in their Persons, and guilty of the blackest Crimes. And he suffered as though Guilty from God himself, by Reason of our Guilt imputed to him; for he was made Sin for us, who knew no Sin; he was made Subject to Wrath as if he had been sinful himself: He was made a Curse for us.