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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 3: SERMON* III. Unbelievers contemn the Glory and Excellency of CHRIST.
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THIS sudden and extraordinary progress of the gospel greatly alarmed the priests and scribes and other chief men among the Jews; so that they laid hands ⟨p. 58⟩on Peter and John, and put them in hold, and the next day brought them fourth to appear before them, and called them to an account for what they had done. They asked them particularly by what power, or by what name they had wrought the […] on the impotent man. Upon which Peter filled with the holy ghost, makes answer, We rulers of the people and elders of Israel—Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom GOD raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders, which is become the head of the corner. In the verse of the text the apostle mentions to them as now fulfilled, that in the 118th Psal. 22. verse. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This text in that psalm, the apostle applies to them▪
THIS sudden and extraordinary progress of the gospel greatly alarmed the priests and scribes and other chief men among the Jews; so that they laid hands ⟨p. 58⟩on Peter and John, and put them in hold, and the next day brought them fourth to appear before them, and called them to an account for what they had done. They asked them particularly by what power, or by what name they had wrought the 〈…〉 on the impotent man. Upon which Peter filled with the holy ghost, makes answer, We rulers of the people and elders of Israel—Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom GOD raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders, which is become the head of the corner. In the verse of the text the apostle mentions to them as now fulfilled, that in the 118th Psal. 22. verse. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This text in that psalm, the apostle applies to them