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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.
HERE I request your attention to a few things in particular, which I have to say to you concerning your hope.
I. WHY will you retain that hope, which by evident experience you find poisons you? Is it reasonable to think, that an holy hope, an hope that is from heaven, would have such an influence? No surely, nothing of such a malignant influence comes from that world of purity and glory. No poison groweth in the paradise of GOD. The same hope, which leads men to ••n •n this world, will lead to hell hereafter. Why therefore will you retain such an hope, of which your own experience shows you the ill tendency, in that it encourages you to lead a wicked life? For certainly that life is a wicked life, wherein you live in the neglect of so well known a duty, as that of secret prayer, and in the disobedience of so plain a command of GOD, as that by which this duty is enjoined. And is not a way of disobedience to GOD, a way to hell?
I. WHY will you retain that hope, which by evident experience you find poisons you? Is it reasonable to think, that an holy hope, an hope that is from heaven, would have such an influence? No surely, nothing of such a malignent influence comes from that world of purity and glory. No poison groweth in the paradise of GOD. The same hope, which leads men to ••n •n this world, will lead to hell hereafter. Why therefore will you retain such an hope, of which your own experience shows you the ill tendency, in that it encourages you to lead a wicked life? For certainly that life is a wicked life, wherein you live in the neglect of so well known a duty, as that of secret prayer, and in the disobedience of so plain a command of GOD, as that by which this duty is enjoined. And is not a way of disobedience to GOD, a way to hell?