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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
Sermon 4: The Folly of looking back, in fleeing out of Sodom.
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 here foretelling his coming in his kingdom, in answer to the question which the Pharisees asked him, viz. When the kingdom of God should come. And in what he says of his coming, he evidently has respect to two things, his coming at the destruction of Jerusalem, and his coming to the general judgment, at the end of the world. He compares his coming at those times, to the coming of GOD in two remarkable judgments that were past; first to that in the time of the flood; and as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the son of man. Nextly he compares it to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot—even […] shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed.
CHRIST is here foretelling his coming in his kingdom, in answer to the question which the Pharisees asked him, viz. When the kingdom of God should come. And in what he says of his coming, he evidently has respect to two things, his coming at the destruction of Jerusalem, and his coming to the general judgment, at the end of the world. He compares his coming at those times, to the coming of GOD in two remarkable judgments that were past; first to that in the time of the flood; and as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the son of man. Nextly he compares it to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot—even 〈…〉 shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed.
THEN he immediately proceeds to direct his people how they should behave themselves at the appearance ⟨p. 74⟩of the signal of the approach of that day, referring especially to the destruction of Jerusalem. In that day, he which shall be upon the house top, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. In which words Christ shows that they should make the utmost haste to flee and get out of the city to the mountains, as he commands