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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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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 Mal. 4. 2. in others a Star, Numb. 24. 17. And he is especially represented by the Morning-Star, as being that which excels all other Stars in Brightness, and is the Forerunner of the Day, Rev. 22. 16. And as in our. Text, he is compared to a Lion, in one Verse, and a Lamb in the next, so sometimes he is compared to a Roe or a young Hart, another Creature most diverse from a Lion. So in some Places he is called a Rock, in others he is compared to a Pearl: In some Places he is called a Man of War, and the Captain of our Salvation, in other Places he is represented as a Bridegroom. In the second Chapter of Canticles the first Verse, he is compared to a Rose and Lilly, that are sweet and beautiful Flowers; in the next Verse but one, he is compared to a Tree, bearing sweet Fruit. In Isai. 53. 2. He is called a Root out of a dry Ground; but elsewhere, instead of that, he is called the Tree of Life, that grows (not in a dry or barren Ground, but) in the midst of the Paradise of God, Rev. 2. 7.
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 Mal. 4. 2. in others a Star, Numb. 24. 17. And he is especially represented by the Morning-Star, as being that which excells all other Stars in Brightness, and is the Forerunner of the Day, Rev. 22. 16. And as in our. Text, he is compared to a Lion, in one Verse, and a Lamb in the next, so sometimes he is compared to a Roe or a young Hart, another Creature most diverse from a Lion. So in some Places he is called a Rock, in others he is compared to a Pearl: In some Places he is called a Man of War, and the Captain of our Salvation, in other Places he is represented as a Bridegroom. In the second Chapter of Canticles the first Verse, he is compared to a Rose and Lilly, that are sweet and beautiful Flowers; in the next Verse but one, he is compared to a Tree, bearing sweet Fruit. In