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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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The Joy that many of them speak of as that, to which none is to be paralleled; is that which they find when they are lowest in the Dust, emptied most of themselves, and as it were annihilating themselves before God, when they are nothing, and God is all, are seeing their own Unworthiness, depending not at all on themselves, but alone on Christ, and ascribing all Glory to God: Then their Souls are most in the Enjoyment of satisfying Rest; excepting that, at such times, they apprehend themselves to be not sufficiently self-abased, for then above all times do they long to be lower. Some speak much of the exquisite Sweetness, and Rest of Soul that is to be found in the exercises of a Spirit of Resignation to God, and humble Submission to his Will. Many express earnest Longings of Soul to praise God; but at the same time complain that they can't praise him as they would do, and they want to have others help them in praising him: They want to have every one praise God, and are ready to call upon every thing to praise him. They express a longing Desire to live to God's Glory, and to do something to his Honour; but at the same time ••y out of their Insufficiency and Barrenness, that they are poor impotent Creatures, can do nothing of themselves, and are utterly insufficient to glorify their creator and Redeemer.
The Joy that many of them speak of as that, to which none is to be parallel'd; is that which they find when they are lowest in the Dust, emptied most of themselves, and as it were annihilating themselves before God, when they are nothing, and God is all, are seeing their own Unworthiness, depending not at all on themselves, but alone on Christ, and ascribing all Glory to God: Then their Souls are most in the Enjoyment of satisfying Rest; excepting that, at such times, they apprehend themselves to be not sufficiently self-abased, for then above all times do they long to be lower. Some speak much of the exquisite Sweetness, and Rest of Soul that is to be found in the exercises of a Spirit of Resignation to God, and humble Submission to his Will. Many express earnest Longings of Soul to praise God; but at the same time complain that they can't praise him as they would do, and they want to have others help them in praising him: They want to have every one praise God, and are ready to call upon every thing to praise him. They express a longing Desire to live to God's Glory, and to do something to his Honour; but at the same time ••y out of their Insufficiency and Barrenness, that they are poor impotent Creatures, can do nothing of themselves, and are utterly insufficient to glorify their creator and Redeemer.