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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.
THE unbeliever hears what a wonderful thing it was, that he who was in the form of GOD and esteemed it no robbery to be equal with GOD, should take upon him the human nature, and come and live in this world in a mean and low condition; but he makes nothing of this.—He hears much of the dying love of CHRIST to sinners, how wonderful it was that so glorious a person, who is infinitely above the angels, should so set his love on such worms of the dust, so much below him, on such sinful creatures, who were his enemies, as to come and be made a curse for them, and die a cruel and ignominious death in their stead; but he sets nothing by all this. This dying love of CHRIST is a thing of no account with him, those great things that CHRIST hath done and suffered, are with him light matters, things of no weight at all.
UNBELIEVERS not only set little by the glory and excellency of CHRIST, but they set nothing by these things. Notwithstanding all the shows and pretences which many natural men make of respect to CHRIST, by speaking honourably of CHRIST in their prayers, and in their common conversation, and by coming to sacraments and attending other ordinances of CHRIST; yet indeed they do not set so much by all the glory and excellency of CHRIST, either the glory of his person, or the glory of his work as a Saviour, as they do by the smallest earthly enjoyment.
I PROCEED now to mention some EVIDENCES of the truth of this doctrine.