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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 can you think, or conceive of greater Things than Christ has done? Was it not a great Thing for him, who was God, to take upon him human Nature, to be not only God, but Man thence forward to all Eternity? But would you look upon Suffering for Sinners to be a yet greater Testimony of Love to Sinners, than merely Doing, though it be never so extraordinary a Thing that he has done? And would you desire that a Saviour should suffer more than Christ has suffered for Sinners?—What is there wanting, or what would you add if you could, to make him more fit to be your Saviour?
And can you think, or conceive of greater Things than Christ has done? Was it not a great Thing for him, who was God, to take upon him human Nature, to be not only God, but Man thence forward to all Eternity? But would you look upon Suffering for Sinners to be a yet greater Testimony of Love to Sinners, than m•erly Doing, though it be never so extraordinary a Thing that he has done? And would you desire that a Saviour should suffer more than Christ has suffered for Sinners?—What is there wanting, or what would you add if you could, to make him more fit to be your Saviour?
But further to induce you to accept of Christ as your Saviour, consider two Things particularly.
1. How much Christ appears as the Lamb of God, in his Invitations to you, to come to him and trust in him. With what sweet Grace and Kindness does he from Time to Time, call and invite you; as Prov. 8. 4 Unto you, O Men I call, and my Voice is to the Sons of Men. And Isai. 55. 1, 2, 3