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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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ONE coming from the dead could not, merely, by force of his own testimony, make us sure that […] should come to that place of torments, if we did not repent and reform. And if there should come more witnesses than one from the dead; if there should be ever so many; yet there is no authority equal to that of GOD; there is no testimony of spirits from the invisible world, which would be so-indisputable and unquestionable, as the divine testimony. How could we know, unless by some divine revelation, that they who should come from the dead, had not come to deceive us? How could we know how wicked, or how good they were, and upon what views they acted?
ONE coming from the dead could not, merely, by force of his own testimony, make us sure that 〈…〉 should come to that place of torments, if we did not repent and reform. And if there should come more witnesses than one from the dead; if there should be ever so many; yet there is no authority equal to that of GOD; there is no testimony of spirits from the invisible world, which would be so-indisputable and unquestionable, as the divine testimony. How could we know, unless by some divine revelation, that they who should come from the dead, had not come to deceive us? How could we know how wicked, or how good they were, and upon what views they acted?
WHEREAS we have the greatest ground to be assured, that the first being, and the fountain of all being and perfection, is nothing but ••ght and truth itself, and therefore that it is impossible •e should deceive or be deceived.
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