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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.
If you can break my Covenant of the Day, and my Covenant of the Night, and that there should not be Day and Night in their Season; then may also my Covenant be broken with David my Servant, that He should not have a Son to reign upon his Throne. So in ver. 25, 26.— Thus abundant is the Scripture in representing how ⟨p. 144⟩impossible it was, that the Promises made of Old concerning the great Salvation and Kingdom of the Messiah should fail: Which implies, that it was impossible that this Messiah, the second Adam, the promised Seed of Abraham, and of David, should fall from his Integrity, as the first Adam did.
5. All the Promises that were made to the Church of God under the Old Testament, of the great Enlargement of the Church, and Advancement of her Glory, in the Days of the Gospel, after the Coming of the Messiah; the Increase of her Light, Liberty, Holiness, Joy, Triumph over her Enemies, &c. of which so great a Part of the Old Testament consists; which are repeated so often, are so variously exhibited, so frequently introduced with great Pomp and Solemnity, and are so abundantly sealed with typical and symbolical Representations; I say, all these Promises imply, that the Messiah should perfect the Work of Redemption; and this implies, that he should persevere in the Work which the Father had appointed Him, being in all Things conformed to his Will. These Promises were often confirmed by an Oath. (See Isai. liv.9. with the Context; Chap. lxii.1•.) And it is represented as utterly impossible that these promises should fail. (Isai. xlix.15. with the Context, Chap. liv.10. with the Context; Chap. li.4,—8. Chap. xl.8. with the Context.) And therefore it was impossible, that the Messiah should fail, or commit Sin.
5. All the Promises that were made to the Church of God under the Old Testament, of the great Enlargement of the Church, and Advancement of her Glory, in the Days of the Gospel, after the Coming of the Messiah; the Increase of her Light, Liberty, Holiness, Joy, Triumph over her Enemies, &c. of which so great a Part of the Old Testament consists; which are repeated so often, are so variously exhibited, so frequently introduced with great Pomp and Solemnity, and are so abundantly sealed with typical and symbolical Representations; I say, all these Promises imply, that the Messiah should perfect the Work of Redemption; and this implies, that he should persevere in the Work whch the Father had appointed Him, being in all Things conformed to his Will. These Promises were often confirmed by an Oath. (See