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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.
1. WHO it is that is here spoken of, viz. the hypocrite; as you may see, if you take the two preceding verses with the verse of the text. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained; when GOD taketh away his soul? Will GOD hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon GOD? Job's three friends in their speeches to him insisted much upon it, that he was an hypocrite. But Job in this chapter asserts his sincerity and integrity, and shows how different his own behaviour had been from that of hypocrites. Particularly he declares his steadfast and immovable resolution of persevering and holding out in the ways of religion and righteousness to the end; ⟨p. 112⟩as you may see in the six first verses.—In the text he shows how contrary to this steadfastness and perseverance, the character of the hypocrite is, who is not wont thus to hold out in religion.
1. WHO it is that is here spoken of, viz. the hypocrite; as you may see, if you take the two preceeding verses with the verse of the text. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained; when GOD taketh away his soul? Will GOD hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon GOD? Job's three friends in their speeches to him insisted much upon it, that he was an hypocrite. But Job in this chapter asserts his sincerity and integrity, and shows how different his own behaviour had been from that of hypocrites. Particularly he declares his stedfast and immovable resolution of persevering and holding out in the ways of religion and righteousness to the end; ⟨p. 112⟩as you may see in the six first verses.—In the text he shows how contrary to this stedfastness and perseverance, the character of the hypocrite is, who is not wont thus to hold out in religion.
2. WE may observe what duty of religion it is, with respect to which the hypocrite is deciphered in the text, and that is the duty of prayer or calling upon GOD.