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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 6: The Warnings of Scripture are in the best manner adapted to the awakening and conversio…
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DOCTRINE. THE warnings of GOD'S word are more fitted to obtain the ends of awakening sinners, and bringing them to repentance, than the rising of one from the dead to warn them.
IN this passage Moses and the prophets seem not only to be equalized to the warnings of one from the invisible world; but to be preferred before them. They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them: they have already those means, which GOD in his infinite wisdom hath seen to be fittest for them, and more suitable to their nature and circumstances, than the rising of one from the dead.—But whether there can be any more than an equality necessarily inferred, or not; yet if only the warnings of the old testament have an equal tendency to bring men to repentance, as the rising of one from the dead; then surely these together with the much clearer revelation under the gospel dispensation by CHRIST and his apostles, wherein we are abundantly more plainly told of another world, and wherein life and immortality are brought to light; must have a much greater tendency and fitness to obtain these ends.
IN this passage Moses and the prophets seem not only to be equalized to the warnings of one from the invisible world; but to be preferred before them. They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them: they have already those means, which GOD in his infinite wisdom hath seen to be fittest for them, and more suitable to their nature and circumstances, than the rising of one from the dead.—But whether there can be any more than an equality necessarily inferred, or not; yet if only the warnings of the old testament have an equal tendency to bring men to repentance, as the rising of one from the dead; then surely these together with the much clearer revalation under the gospel dispensation by CHRIST and his apostles, wherein we are abundantly more plainly told of another world, and wherein life and immortality are brought to light; must have a much greater tendency and fitness to obtain these ends.