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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.
INSIST not on that as a reason why you should not throw away your hope, that you had the judgment of others that the change of which you were the subject was right. It is a small matter to be judged of man's judgment, whether you be approved or condemned, and whether it be by minister or people, wise or unwise. I. Cor. iv. 3. It is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of man's judgment. If your goodness have proved to be as the morning cloud and early dew; if you be one of those, who have forsaken GOD and left off calling upon his name; you have the judgment of GOD, and the sentence of GOD in the scriptures against you, which is a thousand times more than to have the ⟨p. 125⟩judgment of all the wise and godly men and ministers in the world in your favour.
OTHERS, from your account of things, may have been obliged to have charity for you, and to think that, provided you were not mistaken, and in your account did not misrepresent things, or express them by wrong terms, you were really converted. But what a miserable foundation is this, upon which to build an hope as to your eternal state!
HERE I request your attention to a few things in particular, which I have to say to you concerning your hope.