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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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I. From this Doctrine we may learn one Reason why Christ is called by such a Variety of Names, and h•ld for […] under such a Variety of Representations in Scripture. 'Tis the better to signify, and exhibit to us, that Variety of Excellencies that meet together, and are conjoined in him. Many Appellations are mentioned together in one Verse, Isai 9 6. For unto us a Child is born, unto ⟨p. 271⟩us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder: And his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. It shows a wonderful Conjunction of Excellencies, that the same Person should be a Son, born and given, and yet be the everlasting Father, without Beginning or End; that he should be a Child, and yet be he whose Name is Counsellor, and the mighty God; and well may his Name, in whom such Things are conjoined, be called Wonderful.
I. From this Doctrine we may learn one Reason why Christ is called by such a Variety of Names, and h•ld for 〈…〉 under such a Variety of Representations in Scripture. 'Tis the better to signify, and exhibit to us, that Variety of Excellencies that meet together, and are conjoin'd in him. Many Appellations are mentioned together in one Verse, Isai 9 6. For unto us a Child is born, unto ⟨p. 271⟩us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder: And his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. It shews a wonderful Conjunction of Excellencies, that the same Person should be a Son, born and given, and yet be the everlasting Father, without Beginning or End; that he should be a Child, and yet be he whose Name is Counseller, and the mighty God; and well may his Name, in whom such Things are conjoined, be called Wonderful.
By Reason of the same wonderful Conjunction, Christ is represented by a great Variety of sensible Things, that are on some Account excellent. Thus in some Places he is called a Sun, as