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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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O Sinner! Consider the fearful Danger you are in: 'Tis a great Furnace of Wrath, a wide and bottomless Pit, full of the Fire of Wrath, that you are held over in the Hand of that GOD, whose Wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the Damned in Hell: You hang by a slender Thread, with the Flames of divine Wrath flashing about it, and ready every Moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no Interest in any Mediator, and Nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, Nothing to keep off the Flames of Wrath, Nothing of your own, Nothing that you ever have done, Nothing that you can do, to induce GOD to spare you one Moment.
And consider he•e more particularly several Things concerning that Wrath that you are in such Danger of.
1. Whose Wrath it is: It is the Wrath of the infinite GOD. If it were only the Wrath of Man, tho' it were of the most potent Prince, it would be comparatively little to be regarded. The Wrath of Kings is very much dreaded, especially of absolute Monarchs, that have the Possessions and Lives of their Subjects wholly in their Power, to be disposed of at their mere Will. Prov. xx. 2. The Fear of a King is as the Roaring of a Lion: Whoso provoketh him to Anger, sinneth against his own Soul. The Subject that very much enrages an arbitrary Prince, is liable to suffer the most extreme Torments, that human Art can invent, or human Power can inflict. But the greatest earthly Potentates, in ⟨p. 56⟩their greatest Majesty and Strength, and when clothed in their greatest Terrors, are but feeble despicable Worms of the Dust, in Comparison of the great and almighty Creator and King of Heaven and Earth: It is but little that they can do, whm most enraged, and when they have exerted the utmost of their Fury. All the Kings of the Earth before GOD, are is Grasshoppers, they are Nothing, and less than Nothing: Both their Love and their Hatred is to be despised. The Wrath of the great King of Kings, is as much more terrible than their's, as his Majesty is greater.