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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.
BUT if it be such a crime to despise you and set you at nought, what is it to set at nought the eternal infinitely glorious son of GOD, in comparison with whom you and all nations are nothing and less than nothing and vanity? You dislike it much to be contemned by your equals; but you would take it yet more grievously to be despised by your inferiors, by those whom one every account you much excel.—What a crime is it then for a vile, sinful worm, to set at nought him who is the brightness of the glory of the king of kings!
BUT if it be such a crime to despise you and set you at nought, what is it to set at nought the eternal infinitely glorious son of GOD, in comparison with whom you and all nations are nothing and less than nothing and vanity? You dislike it much to be contemned by your equals; but you would take it yet more greivously to be despised by your inferiors, by those whom one every account you much excel.—What a crime is it then for a vile, sinful worm, to set at nought him who is the brightness of the glory of the king of kings!
IT would be a crime inexpressibly heinous to set little by the glory and excellency of such a person; but it is more so, to set nothing at all by it, as you do. You have no value at all for it, as has been shown.—And this is the more aggravated, as Christ is a person whom you so much need, and as he came into the world out of infinite grace to sinners, to lay down his life to deliver them from hell, and purchase for them eternal glory. How much has Christ done and suffered, that you might have opportunity to be saved! Yet you set nothing by it all; you set nothing by the blood of Christ, even by that blood that was shed for such poor sinners as you are, and that is offered to you for your salvation. But you trample under foot the blood of the son of GOD.—If Christ had come into the world only to teach us, it would ⟨p. 68⟩have been a heinous thing, to trample under foot his word and instructions. But when he came to die for us, how much more heinous is it to trample under foot his blood!