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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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Some are brought to this Conviction by a great Sense of their Sinfulness, in general, that they are such vile wicked Creatures in Heart and Life: Others have the Sins of their Lives in an extraordinary Manner set before them, Multitudes of them coming just then fresh to their Memories, and being set before them with their Aggravations; some have their Minds especially fixed, on some particular wicked Practice, they have indulged; some are especially convinced by a Sight of the Corruption and Wickedness of their Hearts; some, from a View they have of the Horridness of some particular Exercises of Corruption, which they have had in the Time of their Awakenings▪ whereby the Enmity of the Heart ⟨p. 30⟩against God has been manifested; some are convinced especially by a sense of the Sin of Unbelief, the Opposition of their Hearts to the Way of Salvation by Christ, and their Obstinacy in rejecting him and his Grace.
There is a great deal of difference as to Persons Distinctness here; some, that han't so clear a Sight of God's Justice in their Condemnation, yet mention things that plainly imply it. They find a Disposition to acknowledge God to be just and righteous in his Threatenings, and that they are deserving of nothing: And many times, tho' they had not so particular a Sight of it at the Beginning, they have very clear Discoveries of it soon afterwards, with great Humblings in the Dust before God.
There is a great deal of difference as to Persons Distinctness here; some, that han't so clear a Sight of God's Justice in their Condemnation, yet mention things that plainly imply it. They find a Disposition to acknowledge God to be just and righteous in his Threatnings, and that they are deserving of nothing: And many times, tho' they had not so particular a Sight of it at the Beginning, they have very clear Discoveries of it soon afterwards, with great Humblings in the Dust before God.