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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 thus convinced of the Truth of the Gospel in general, and that the Scriptures are the Word of God: Others have their Minds more especially fixed on some particular great Doctrine of the Gospel, some particular Truths that they are meditating on; or are in a special manner convinced of the Divinity of the Things they are reading of▪ in some portion of Scripture. Some have such Convictions in a much more remarkable manner than others: And there are some that never had such a special Sense of the Certainty of divine Things, impressed upon them with such inward Evidence and Strength, have yet very clear Exercises of Grace; i. e. of Love to God, Repentance and Holiness. And if they be more particularly examined, they appear plainly to have an inward firm Persuasion of the Reality of divine Things, such as they don't use to have before their Conversion. And those that have the most clear Discoveries of divine Truth, in the manner that has been ⟨p. 43⟩spoken of, can't have this always in view. When the Sense and Relish of the divine Excellency of these Things fades, on a withdraw of the Spirit of God, they han't the medium of the Conviction of their Truth at command: In a dull Frame they can't recall the •ea, and inward Sense they had, perfectly to mind; Things appear very dim to what they did before: And tho' there still remains an habitual strong Persuasion; yet not so as to exclude Temptations to Unbelief, and all possibility of Doubting, as before: But then at particular Times, by God's Help, the same Sense of Things revives again, like Fire that lay hid in Ashes.
Some are thus convinced of the Truth of the Gospel in general, and that the Scriptures are the Word of God: Others have their Minds more especially fixed on some particular great Doctrine of the Gospel, some particular Truths that they are meditating on; or are in a special manner convinced of the Divinity of the Things they are reading of▪ in some portion of Scripture. Some have such Convictions in a much more remarkable manner than others: And there are some that never had such a special Sense of the Certainty of divine Things, impressed upon them with such inward Evidence and Strength, have yet very clear Exercises of Grace; i. e. of Love to God, Repentance and Holiness. And if they be more particularly examined, they appear plainly to have an inward firm Persuasion of the Reality of divine Things, such as they don't use to have before their Conversion. And those that have the most clear Discoveries of divine Truth, in the manner that has been