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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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IN the bible we not only have those warnings, which were given by inspiration of the prophets; but we have GOD'S own words, which he spake as it were by his own mouth. In the old testament is his voice out of the midst of the fire and the darkness, from mount Sinai. And in the new testament we have GOD speaking to us, as dwelling among us. He came down from heaven and instructed us in a familiar manner, for a long while; and we have his instructions recorded in our bibles.—Now which has the greatest tendency to influence men, to have one of the departed spirits sent back into its body, to warn them; or to have GOD himself assume a body, and come and warn them?
4. IT more evidently shows the importance of the affair, that GOD should immediately concern himself in it, than the coming of one from the dead would do. Those things about which kings most immediately concern themselves, are commonly matters of the greatest importance, while they leave less concernments to be managed by their officers. And surely th•• must be a matter of very great moment, in which GOD shows himself so much concerned, as he does in our salvation. GOD in all ages of the world hath showed himself very much concerned in this matter. How abundantly hath he warned us in his holy word? How earnest hath he shown himself in it? How many arguments and expostulations hath he used, that we might avoid the way to hell?
THIS evidently argues that what we are warned about is a matter of the utmost concern, and proves it much more than it we were only warned by one rising from the dead.