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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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So that if we choose Christ for our Friend and Portion, we shall hereafter be so received to him, that there shall be nothing to hinder the fullest Enjoyment of him, to the satisfying the utmost Cravings of our Souls. We may take our full Swing at gratifying our spiritual Appetite after these holy Pleasures. Christ will then say, as in Cant 5. 1 Eat. O Friends▪ Drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved And this shall be our Entertainment to all Eternity! There shall never be any End of this Happiness, or any Thing to interrupt our Enjoyment of it, or in the least to molest us in it!
So that if we choose Christ for our Friend and Portion, we shall hereafter be so received to him, that there shall be nothing to hinder the fullest Enjoyment of him, to the satisfying the utmost Cravings of our Souls. We may take our full Swing at gratifying our spiritual Appetite after these holy Pleasures. Christ will then say, as in Cant 5. 1 Eat. O Friends▪ Drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved And this shall be our Entertainment to all Eternity! There shall never be any End of this Happiness, or any Thing to in•e•rupt our Enjoyment of it, or in the least to molest us in it!
2 By your being united to Christ, you will have a more glorious Union with, and Enjoyment of, God the Father, than otherwise could be. For hereby the Saints Relation to God becomes much nearer; they are the Children of God in an higher Manner, than otherwise could be. For being Members of God's […] natural Son, th•• are in a Sort Partakers of his Relation to the Father: They are not only Sons of God by Regeneration, but by a Kind of Communion in the So••h•p of the eternal Son. This seems to be intended, Gal. 4 4, 5, 6