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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.
CHRIST is the holy one of GOD: he is so holy that the heavens are not pure in his sight. He is possessed of all that holiness which is the infinite beauty and loveliness of the divine nature. But an unbeliever sets nothing by the holiness of CHRIST.—CHRIST is the wisdom of GOD and the power of GOD, as he is called 1. Cor. i. 24. But an unbeliever sets nothing by his power and wisdom.—The LORD JESUS CHRIST is full of grace and mercy: the mercy and love of GOD appear no where else so brightly and gloriously, as they do in the face of JESUS CHRIST. But an unbeliever sets no value at all upon the infinite grace of CHRIST.
NEITHER do unbelievers set any thing by those excellent virtues which appeared in CHRIST'S human nature, when he was upon earth. He was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners; he was meek and lowly of heart; he was patient under afflictions and injuries; when he was reviled, he reviled not again. But unbelievers set nothing by these things in JESUS CHRIST.—They very often hear how excellent and glorious a person CHRIST is: they are told of his holiness, and grace, and condescension, and meekness; and have the excellencies of CHRIST plainly set forth to them; yet they set all at nought.
2. THEY set nothing by his excellency in his work and office. They are told how glorious and complete ⟨p. 61⟩a mediator he is, how sufficient to answer all our necessities, and to save sinners to the uttermost; but they make light of it all; yea that make nothing of it—They hear of the wonderful wisdom of GOD in contriving such a way of salvation by CHRIST, they have the manifold wisdom of GOD set forth to them; but they set nothing by this wisdom, nor do they make any account of the excellency of this way of salvation.