N05520:134
True grace, distinguished from the experience of devils; in a sermon, preached before the…
True grace, distinguished from the experience of devils; in a sermon, preached before the Synod of New-York, convened at New-Ark, in New-Jersey, on September 28. N.S. 1752. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Stockbridge in New-England. ; (Printed by the desire of the synod.) : [Four lines from II. Corinthians]
New-York: printed by James Parker, 1753
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2. They deserve to be cast into Hell; so that divine Justice never stands in the Way, it makes no Objection against GOD's using his Power at any Moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, Justice calls aloud for an infinite Punishment of their Sins. Divine Justice, says of the Tree that brings forth such Grapes of Sodom, Cut it down, why cumbreth it the Ground, Luk. xiii. 7. The Sword of divine Justice is every Moment brandished over their Heads, and 'tis nothing but the Hand of arbitrary Mercy, and GOD's mere Will, that holds it back.
2. They deserve to be cast into Hell; so that divine Justice never stands in the Way, it makes no Objection against GOD's using his Power at any Moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, Justice calls aloud for an infinite Punishment of their Sins. Divine Justice, says of the Tree that brings forth such Grapes of Sodom, Cut it down, why cumbreth it the Ground, Luk. xiii. 7. The Sword of divine Justice is every Moment brandished over their Heads, and 'tis nothing but the Hand of arbitrary Mercy, and GOD's meer Will, that holds it back.
3. They are already under a Sentence of Condemnation to Hell. They don't only justly deserve to be cast down thither; but the Sentence of the Law of GOD, that eternal and immutable Rule of Righteousness, that GOD has fixed between him and Mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to Hell. John iii. 18. He that believeth not is condemned already. So that every unconverted Man properly belongs to Hell; that is his Place; from thence he is. John viii. 23. Ye are from beneath: And thither he is bound; 'tis the Place that Justice, and GOD's Word, and the Sentence of his unchangeable Law assigns to him.