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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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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 Philip. 2. 8▪ 9 He humbled himself, and […] unto Death;—wherefore God hath highly, […] And we see that 'tis on ⟨p. 266⟩this Account chiefly, that he is extolled as worthy by Saints and Angels in the Context; Worthy, say they, is the Lamb that was slain—This shows an admirable Conjunction in him of infinite Dignity, and infinite Condescension and Love to the infinitely unworthy.
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.