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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 shows the mean and contemptible ⟨p. 63⟩thoughts that he has of CHRIST, in refusing to accept of him, and in shutting the door of his heart against him. CHRIST stands at the door and knocks, and sometimes stands many years knocking at the door of his heart, and he refuses to open to him. Now it certainly shows that men have a very mean thought of a person, when they s•ut him out of their doors—Unbelievers show the mean and dishonourable thoughts they have of CHRIST in that they dare not trust him. They believe not what he says to be true: they will not trust the word of CHRIST, so far as the word of one of their honest neighbours, or of a servant whom they have found to be faithful.—It also appears that they have no real honour for CHRIST in their hearts, in that they refuse to obey his commands. They do nothing that they do, from a spirit of obedience to him: and that external obedience which they render, is but a forced, feigned obedience, and not from any respect to CHRIST'S authority or worthiness to be obeyed.
THE unbeliver shows the mean and contemptible ⟨p. 63⟩thoughts that he has of CHRIST, in refusing to accept of him, and in shutting the door of his heart against him. CHRIST stands at the door and knocks, and sometimes stands many years knocking at the door of his heart, and he refuses to open to him. Now it certainly shows that men have a very mean thought of a person, when they s•ut him out of their doors—Unbelievers show the mean and dishonourable thoughts they have of CHRIST in that they dare not trust him. They believe not what he says to be true: they will not trust the word of CHRIST, so far as the word of one of their honest neighbours, or of a servant whom they have found to be faithful.—It also appears that they have no real honour for CHRIST in their hearts, in that they refuse to obey his commands. They do nothing that they do, from a spirit of obedience to him: and that external obedience which they render, is but a forced, feigned obedience, and not from any respect to CHRIST'S authority or worthiness to be obeyed.