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Sermons, on the following subjects
Sermons, on the following subjects; The manner in which salvation is to be sought. The unreasonableness of indetermination in religion. Unbelievers contemn the glory of Christ. The folly of looking back in fleeing out of Sodom. The warnings of Scripture in the best manner adapted to the awakening and conversion of sinners. Hypocrites deficient in the duty of prayer. The future punishment of the wicked unavoidable and intolerable. The eternity of hell-torments. The peace which Christ gives his true followers. The perpetuity & change of the Sabbath. / By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New-Jersey.
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1780
Sermon 2: The unreasonableness of Indetermination in Religion.
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HE hath told us plainly that we must take up the cross daily and follow him; that we must hate father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, and our own life also, in order to become his disciples; and that we must cut off our right hands, and pluck out our right eyes, in order to enter into heaven. Thus we have a fair opportunity to count the cost on both sides, and are directed so to do. Luke xiv. 28.—How unreasonable therefore is it, for men who have all these helps and advantages, to remain in suspense, and to come•• no conclusion whether they will be christians or heathens, whether they will be for GOD or the devil; though they have lived under the preaching of the word, and offers of the gospel, for many years.
HE hath told us plainly that we must take up the cross daily and follow him; that we must hate father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, and our own life also, in order to become his disciples; and that we must cut off our right hands, and pluck out our right eyes, in order to enter into heaven. Thus we have a fair opportunity to count the cost on both sides, and are directed so to do. Luke xiv. 28.—How unreasonable therefore is it, for men who have all these helps and advantages, to remain in suspence, and to come•• no conclusion whether they will be christians or heathens, whether they will be for GOD or the devil; though they have lived under the preaching of the word, and offers of the gospel, for many years.
6. WE have no reason to expect to be under better advantages to determine hereafter, than we are now. We never shall have a clearer revelation of gospel truth; never shall have the advantages and disadvantages of both sides more plainly set before us, than they are already in the word of GOD; nor are ⟨p. 49⟩