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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
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.
CONCERNING these words I would observe three things.
1. WHAT it was that GOD commanded Noah, to which these words refer. It was the building o• an ark according to the particular direction of GOD, against the time when the flood of waters should come; and the laying up of food for himself, his family, and the other animals, which were to be preserved in the ark. We have the particular commands which GOD gave him respecting this affair, from the 19th v. Make the an ark of Gopher wood, &c.
2. WE may observe the special design of the work, which GOD had enjoined upon Noah▪ It was to save himself and his family, when the rest of the world should be drowned. See v. 17, 18.
3. […] observe Noah's obedience. He obeyed GOD: Thus did Noah. And […] was thorough and universal: According to ALL, that GOD commanded him, so did he. He not only began, but he went through this work, which GOD had commanded him to undertake for his salvation from the flood. To this obedience the apostle refers in the 11th ch. of H b. 7th v. By faith Noah being warned of GOD of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house.