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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.
To build such a structure, with all those apartments and divisions in it which were necessary, and in such a manner as to be fit to float upon the water, for so long a time, was a great undertaking. It was a work of much time, taking Noah with all the workmen he employed an hundred and twenty years, or thereabouts, to build it. For so long it was, that the spirit of GOD strove, and the long-suffering of GOD waited on the old world; as you may see in Gen. vi. 3. My spirit shall not always strive with man; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. All this while the ark was a preparing, as appears by I Pet. iii. 20. When once the long suffering of GOD waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing. It was a long time that Noah constantly employed himself in this business. Men would esteem that undertaking very great, which should keep them constantly employed even for one half of that time.
To build such a structure, with all those apartments and divisions in it which were necessary, and in such a manner as to be fit to float upon the water, for so long a time, was a great undertaking. It was a work of much time, taking Noah with all the workmen he employed an hundred and twenty years, or thereabouts, to build it. For so long it was, that the spirit of GOD strove, and the long-suffering of GOD waited on the old world; as you may see in Gen. vi. 3. My spirit shall not always strive with man; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. All this while the ark was a prepairing, as appears by I Pet. iii. 20. When once the long suffering of GOD waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing. It was a long time that Noah constantly employed himself in this business. Men would esteem that undertaking very great, which should keep them constantly employed even for one half of that time.
NOAH must have had a great and constant care upon his mind for these one hundred and twenty years, in superintending this work, and seeing that all was done exactly according to the directions, which GOD had given him.