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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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TRUE GRACE, Distinguished from the EXPERIENCE OF DEVILS. › IMPROVEMENT.
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The Greatness of the Abilities of the Devils, may be argued, from the Representation in Eph. vi. 12, We wrestle not against Flesh and Blood, but against Principalities, against Powers, &c. The same may also be argued, from what the Scripture says of Satan's Subtlety. Gen. iii. 1. 2 Cor. xi. 3. Acts xiii. 10.
The Greatness of the Abilities of the Devils, may be argued, from the Representation in Eph. vi. 12, We wrestle not against Flesh and Blood, but against Principalities, against Powers, &c. The same may also be argued, from what the Scripture says of Satan's Subtilty. Gen. iii. 1. 2 Cor. xi. 3. Acts xiii. 10.
And as the Devil has a Faculty of Understanding of large Capacity, so he is capable of a great speculative Knowledge, of the Things of GOD, and the invisible and eternal World, as well as other Things; and must needs, actually, have a great Understanding of these Things; as these are the Things which have always been chiefly in his View; and as his Circumstances, from his first Existence, have been such as have tended chiefly to engage Him to attend to these Things. Before his Fall, he was one of those Angels, who continually beheld the Face of the Father, which is in Heaven. And Sin has no Tendency to destroy the Memory: And therefore, has no Tendency to blot out of it, any speculative Knowledge that was formerly there.