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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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Grace in many Persons, through this Ignorance of their State, and their looking on themselves still as the Objects of God's Displeasure, has been like the Trees in Winter, or like Seed in the Spring suppressed under a hard Clod of Earth; and many in such Cases have laboured to their utmost to divert their Minds from the pleasing and joyful Views they have had, and to suppress those Consolations and gracious Affections that arose thereupon. And when it has once come into their Minds to enquire whether or no this was no• true Grace, they have been much afraid lest they should be d•ceiv'd with common Illuminations and Flashes of Affection, and eternally undone with a false Hope. But when they have been better instructed, and so brought to allow of Hope, this has awakened the gracious Disposition of their Hearts into Life and Vigour, as the warm Beams of the S•n in the Spring, have quickened the Seeds and Productions of the Earth: Grace being now at liberty, ⟨p. 39⟩and cherished with Hope, has soon flowed out to their abundant Satisfaction and Increase.
Grace in many Persons, through this Ignorance of their State, and their looking on themselves still as the Objects of God's Displeasure, has been like the Trees in Winter, or like Seed in the Spring suppressed under a hard Clod of Earth; and many in such Cases have laboured to their utmost to divert their Minds from the pleasing and joyful Views they have had, and to suppress those Consolations and gracious Affections that arose thereupon. And when it has once come into their Minds to enquire whether or no this was no• true Grace, they have been much afraid lest they should be d•ceiv'd with common Illuminations and Flashes of Affection, and eternally undone with a false Hope. But when they have been better instructed, and so brought to allow of Hope, this has awaken'd the gracious Disposition of their Hearts into Life and Vigor, as the warm Beams of the S•n in the Spring, have quickened the Seeds and Productions of the Earth: Grace being now at liberty, ⟨p. 39⟩