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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.
DOCTRINE.
UNBELIEVERS set nothing by all the glory and excellency in CHRIST.
1. THEY set nothing by the excellency of his person.—CHRIST is a great and glorious person, a person of infinite worthiness, on which account he is infinitely esteemed and loved of the father, and is continually adored by the angels. But unbelievers have no esteem at all of him on that account. They have no value at all of him on account of his being the Son of GOD. He is not set the higher in ⟨p. 60⟩their esteem on the account of his standing in so near and honourable a relation to GOD the father. He is not valued at all the more for his being a divine person, or one that is GOD. By his having the divine nature, he is infinitely exalted above all created beings. But he is not at all exalted by it in their esteem. They set nothing by his infinite majesty: his glorious brightness and greatness excite not any true respect or reverence in them.
1. THEY set nothing by the excellency of his person.—CHRIST is a great and glorious person, a person of infinite worthiness, on which account he is infinitely esteemed and loved of the father, and is continually adored by the angels. But unbelievers have no esteem at all of him on that account. They have no value at all of him on account of his being the Son of GOD. He is not set the higher in