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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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BUT surely the all seeing GOD knows as well as any of the dead, what the present sufferings of the damned are. He is every where present with his all seeing eye. He is in heaven and in-hell, and in and through every part of the creation. He is where every devil is, and where every damned sold is; he is present by his knowledge and his essence. He not only knows as well as those in heaven, who see at a distance; but he knows as perfectly as those who feel the misery. He seeth into the innermost recesses of the hearts of those miserable spirits. He seeth all the sorrow and anguish that are there, for he upholds them in being. They and all the powers of their spirits, whereby they are capable of either happiness or misery, are in his hands.
BUT surely the all seeing GOD knows as well as any of the dead, what the present sufferings of the damned are. He is every where present with his all seeing eye. He is in heaven and in-hell, and in and through every part of the creation. He is where every devil is, and where every damned sould is; he is present by his knowledge and his essence. He not only knows as well as those in heaven, who see at a distance; but he knows as perfectly as those who feel the misery. He seeth into the innermost recesses of the hearts of those miserable spirits. He seeth all the sorrow and anguish that are there, for he upholds them in being. They and all the powers of their spirits, whereby they are capable of either happiness or misery, are in his hands.
BESIDES, it is his wrath that they endure: he measures out to them their several portions of punishment; he makes his wrath enter into them; he is a consuming fire to them; his anger is that fire, in which they are tormented. He therefore is doubtless able to give us as clear and distinct, and as true an account of hell, as the damned themselves, if they should rise from the dead. He needs not any to inform him.