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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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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.
Christ never so greatly manifested his Hatred of Sin, as against God, as in his dying to take away the Dishonour that Sin had done to God; and yet never was he to such a Degree subject to the terrible Effects of God's Hatred of Sin, and Wrath against it, as he was then—In this appears those diverse Excellencies meeting in Christ, viz. Love to God, and Grace to Sinners.
5. He never was so dealt with as unworthy as in his last Sufferings, and yet it is chiefly on Account of them that he is accounted worthy. He was the• in dealt with as if he had not been worthy to live: They cry out, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him. John. 19. 15. And they pre••r Barabbas before him. And he suffered from the Father, as one whose Demerits were infinite, by Reason of our Demerits that were laid upon him. And yet it was especially by that Act of his subjecting himself to those Sufferings, that he merited, and on the Account of which chiefly he was accounted worthy of, the Glory of his Exaltation