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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 5: 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.
6. BACKSLIDING after such a time as this,* will have a vastly greater tendency to seal a man's damnation, than at another time. The greater means men have, the louder calls and the greater advantages they are under, the more dangerous is backsliding, the more it has a tendency to enhance guilt, to provoke GOD and to harden the heart.
- *The time of the revival of religion at Northampton, A. D. 1735.
WE in this land of light, have long enjoyed greater advantages, than the most of the world. But the advantages which persons are under now for their, salvation, are perhaps tenfold to what they have been at such times as we have ordinarily lived in; and backsliding will be proportionably the greater sin, and the more dangerous to the soul.—You have seen GOD'S glory and his wonders amongst us, in a most marvellous manner of late. If therefore you look back after this, there will be great danger that GOD will swear in his wrath, that you shall never enter into his rest▪ ⟨p. 90⟩as GOD sware concerning them that were for going back into Egypt, after they had seen the wonders which GOD wrought for Israel. Num. xiv. 22, 23, Because all th•se men that have seen my glory and my miracles that I did in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers neither shall any of them that provoked me, see it.—The wonders that we have seen among us of late, have been of a more glorious nature, than those that the children of Israel saw in Egypt and in the wilderness.