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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 your choosing Christ for your Friend and […] you will obtain these two infinite Benefits.
By your choosing Christ for your Friend and 〈…〉 you will obtain these two infinite Benefits.
1. Christ will give himself to you, with all those various Excellencies that meet in him, to your full and everlasting Enjoyment. He will ever after treat you as his dear Friend; and you shall ere long be where he is, and shall behold his Glory, and shall dwell with him, in most free & intimate Communion and Enjoyment.
1. Christ will give himself to you, with all those various Excellencies that meet in him, to your full and everlasting Enjoyment. He will ever after treat you as his dear Friend; and you shall e're long be where he is, and shall behold his Glory, and shall dwell with him, in most free & intimate Communion and Enjoyment.
When the Saints get to Heaven, they shall not merely see Christ, and have to do with him as Subjects and Servants with a glorious and gracious Lord and Sovereign, but Christ will entertain them as Friends and Brethren. This we may learn from the Manner of Christ's conversing with his Disciples here on Earth: Though he was their Sovereign Lord, and did not refuse, but required, their supreme Respect and Adoration, yet he did not treat them as earthly Sovereigns are wont to do their Subjects; he did not keep them at an awful Distance; but all along conversed with them with the most friendly Familiarity, as a Father amongst a Company of Children, yea, as with Brethren. So he did with the twelve, and so he did with Mary, Martha and Lazarus He told his Disciples, that he did not call them Servants, but Friends, and we read of one of them that leaned on his Bosom. And doubtless he will not treat his Disciples with less Freedom and Endearment in Heaven: He won't keep them at a greater Distance for his being in a State of Exaltation; but he will rather take them into a State of Exaltation with him. This will be the Improvement Christ will make of his own Glory, to make his beloved Friends Partakers with him, to glorify them in his Glory, as he says to his Father,