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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.
3. YOUR thus restraining prayer before GOD is not only inconsistent with the love, but also with the fear of GOD. It is an argument that you cast off fear, as is manifest by that text, Job. xv. 4. Yea thou castest off fear and restrainest prayer before God. While you thus live in the transgression of so plain a command of GOD, you evidently show, that there is no fear of GOD before your eyes. Psal. xxxvi. ••. The transgression of the wicked faith within […] heart, that there is no fear of GOD before his eyes.
3. YOUR thus restraining prayer before GOD is not only inconsistent with the love, but also with the fear of GOD. It is an argument that you cast off fear, as is manifest by that text, Job. xv. 4. Yea thou castest off fear and restrainest prayer before God. While you thus live in the transgression of so plain a command of GOD, you evidently show, that there is no fear of GOD before your eyes. Psal. xxxvi. ••. The transgression of the wicked faith within 〈…〉 heart, that there is no fear of GOD before his eyes.
4. CONSIDER how living in such a neglect is consistent with leading an holy life. We are abundantly instructed in scripture, that true christians do lead an holy life; that without holiness no man shall see the LORD, Heb. xii. 14. And that every one that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself, even as CHRIST is pure I Joh. iii. 3.—In Prov. xvi. 17