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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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It has more frequently been so amongst us, that when Persons have first had the Gospel Ground of Relief for lost Sinners discovered to them, and have been entertaining their Minds with the sweet Prospect, they have thought nothing at that time of their being converted: To see that there is such an All-sufficiency in God, and such plentiful Provision made in Christ, after they have been borne down, and sunk with a sense of their Guilt and Fears of Wrath, exceedingly refreshes them; the View is joyful to them, as 'tis in its own nature glorious, and gives them quite new, and more delightful Ideas of God and Christ, and greatly encourages them to seek Conversion, and begets in them a strong Resolution to give up themselves, and devote their whole Lives to God and his Son, and patiently to wait till ⟨p. 35⟩God shall see fit to make all effectual; and very often they entertain a strong Persuasion, that he will in his own time do it for them.
There is wrought in them a holy Repose of Soul in God through Christ, and a secret Disposition to fear and love him, and to hope for Blessings from him in this Way: and yet they have no Imagination that they are now converted, it don't so much as come into their Minds: and very often the Reason is, that they don't see that they do accept of this sufficiency of Salvation, that they behold in Christ, having entertained a wrong Notion of Acceptance; not being sensible that the obedient and joyful Entertainment which their Hearts give to this Discovery of Grace, is a real Acceptance of it: They know not that the sweet Complacence they feel in the Mercy and complete Salvation of God, as it includes Pardon and Sanctification, and is held forth to them only through Christ, is a true receiving of this Mercy, or a plain Evidence of their receiving it. They expected I know not what Kind of Act of Soul, and perhaps they had no distinct Idea of it themselves.
There is wrought in them a holy Repose of Soul in God through Christ, and a secret Disposition to fear and love him, and to hope for Blessings from him in this Way: and yet they have no Imagination that they are now converted, it don't so much as come into their Minds: and very often the Reason is, that they don't see that they do accept of this sufficiency of Salvation, that they behold in Christ, having entertain'd a wrong Notion of Acceptance; not being sensible that the obedient and joyful Entertainment which their Hearts give to this Discovery of Grace, is a real Acceptance of it: They know not that the sweet Complacence they feel in the Mercy and complete Salvation of God, as it includes Pardon and Sanctification, and is held forth to them only through Christ, is a true receiving of this Mercy, or a plain Evidence of their receiving it. They expected I know not what Kind of Act of Soul, and perhaps they had no distinct Idea of it themselves.