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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…
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.
I. GOD, in many respects, knows better what belongs to the punishment of sinners than departed souls. Departed souls doubtless know what […] torments are, much better than any on earth. The souls of the wicked feel them, and the souls of the saints see them afar off. GOD glorifies his justice in the punishment of ungodly men, in the view of the saints and angels, and thereby makes them the […] admit• the riches of his goodness in choosing them […] life. As the rich man saw Lazarus in heaven […] Lazarus saw the rich man in hell; he saw hell-torments; and therefore the rich man desires […] may […] to warn his brethren.—And […] from the dead, to warn wicked men, if […] would […] all awaken them, it would be because he knew what ⟨p. 98⟩hell-torments were, by his own knowledge, and could describe them to others, as having seen and felt them.
I. GOD, in many respects, knows better what belongs to the punishment of sinners than departed souls. Departed souls doubtless know what 〈…〉 torments are, much better than any on earth. The souls of the wicked feel them, and the souls of the saints see them afar off. GOD glorifies his justice in the punishment of ungodly men, in the view of the saints and angels, and thereby makes them the 〈…〉 admit• the riches of his goodness in choosing them 〈…〉 life. As the rich man saw Lazarus in heaven 〈…〉 Lazarus saw the rich man in hell; he saw hell-torments; and therefore the rich man desires 〈…〉 may 〈…〉 to warn his brethren.—And 〈…〉 from the dead, to warn wicked men, if 〈…〉 would 〈…〉 all awaken them, it would be because he knew what ⟨p. 98⟩hell-torments were, by his own knowledge, and could describe them to others, as having seen and felt them.