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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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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. ⟨p. 285⟩God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that are under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons. And because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts, crying Abba, Father.—The Church is the Daughter of God, not only as he hath begotten her by his Word and Spirit, but as the is the Spouse of his eternal Son.
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. ⟨p. 285⟩God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that are under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons. And because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts, crying Abba, Father.—The Church is the Daughter of God, not only as he hath begotten her by his Word and Spirit, but as the is the Spouse of his eternal Son.