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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.
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.
1. BY telling them, This is the stone, i. e. this person of whom he had spoken in the foregoing verse, viz. JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom they had crucified and whom GOD had raised from the dead.
2. BY telling them, that they were the builders spoken of. They before whom the apostle then was, and to whom he was speaking, were rulers and elders and scribes of the people, the high priest and other priests. They as they were set to be rulers and teachers among GOD'S people, by their office, were called to be builders of the church of GOD.
3. BY telling them, that they had set this stone at nought. They had so done by refusing to accept of him. CHRIST came to his own, and his own received him not: and not only so, but they had openly manifested the greatest contempt of him. They ⟨p. 59⟩••d mocked him, scourged and spit upon him, and in derision crowned him with a crown of thorns, and arrayed him in a mock-robe, and then had put him to a most ignominious death.