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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
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.
WHEN we read how the children of Israel conducted themselves in the wilderness, how often they murmured and offended; we are ready to wonder at the hardness of their hearts. And when we read the history of CHRIST, and how the Jews halted and rejected him notwithstanding his many miracles; we are ready to wonder how they could be so (doubt)hard-hearted. But we have as much reason to wonder at ourselves; for we have naturally the same sort of hearts that they had; and sinners in these days manifest a• hardness of heart as much to be wondered at, in that they are not influenced by the word of GOD; for they who will not hear Moses and the prophets, ⟨p. 108⟩JESUS CHRIST and his apostles, neither would be persuaded, if one should rise from the dead, or if an angel should come from heaven.
THE best means of awakening and conversion are exceeding plentifully enjoyed by us, much more plentifully in several respects, than they were by those who had only Moses and the prophets. In the first place we have divine truth abundantly more fully revealed in the bible, than they had then. Light now shines abundantly clear. Gospel truth is revealed not in types and shadows, but plainly. Heaven and hell are much more clearly and expressly made known. We are told that the glory of that revelation was no glory in comparison with the glory of the revelation of the gospel.
THE best means of awakening and conversion are exceeding plentifully enjoyed by us, much more plentifully in several respects, than they were by those who had only Moses and the prophets. In the first place we have divine truth abundantly more fully revealed in the bible, than they had then. Light now shines abundantly clear. Gospel truth is revealed not in types and shadows, but plainly. Heaven and hell are much more clearly and expresly made known. We are told that the glory of that revelation was no glory in comparison with the glory of the revelation of the gospel.