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A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of…
A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the church in Stockbridge. ; [One line from Romans]A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, vertue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the church in Stockbridge. ; [One line from Romans]
printed by S. Kneeland, 1754
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. It was often promised to the Church of God of old, for their Comfort, that God would give them a righteous, sinless Saviour. Jer. xxiii.5, 6. Behold, the Days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise up unto David a righteous Branch; and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute Judgment and Justice in the Earth. In his Days shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is the Name whereby He shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness. So, Jer. xxxiii.15.—I will cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto David; and He shall execute Judgment and Righteousness in the Land. Isai. ix.6, 7. For unto us a Child is born;— Upon the Throne of David and of his Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with Judgment and Justice, from henceforth, even forever: The Zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this. Chap. xi. at the Beginning. There shall come forth a Rod out of the Stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his Roots; and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him,— The Spirit of Knowledge, and of the Fear of the Lord:—With Righteousness shall He judge the Poor, and reprove with Equity:— Righteousness shall be the Girdle of his Loins, and Faithfulness the Girdle of his Reins. Chap. lii.13. My Servant shall deal prudently. Chap. liii.9. Because He had done no Violence, neither was Guile found in his Mouth. If it be impossible, that these Promises should fail, and it be easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away, than for one Jot or Tittle of these Promises of God to pass away, then it was impossible that Christ should commit any Sin. Christ himself signified, that it was impossible but that the Things which were spoken concerning Him should be fulfilled. Luk. xxiv.44.—That all Things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning Me. Mat. xxvi.53, 54. But how then shall the Scripture be fulfilled, that thus it must be? Mark xiv.49. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled. And so the Apostle,