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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.
BUT how is a life in a great measure prayerless, consistent with an holy life? To lead an holy life is to lead a life devoted to GOD; a life of worshipping and serving GOD; a life consecrated to the service of GOD. But how doth he lead such a life, who doth not so much as maintain the duty of prayer? How can such a man be said to walk by the spirit, and to be a servant of the most high GOD.—An holy life is a life of faith. The life that true Christians live in the world, they live by the faith of the son of GOD. But who can believe that that man lives by faith, who lives without prayer which is the natural expression of faith? Prayer is as natural an expression of faith, as breathing is of life; and to say a man lives a life of faith, and yet lives a prayerless life, is every whit […] inconsistent and incredible, as to say that a man lives without breathing. A prayerless life is so far from being an holy life that it is a profane life: he ⟨p. 130⟩that lives so, lives like an heathen, who calleth not on GOD'S name: he that lives a prayerless life, lives without GOD in the world.
BUT how is a life in a great measure prayerless, consistent with an holy life? To lead an holy life is to lead a life devoted to GOD; a life of worshipping and serving GOD; a life consecrated to the service of GOD. But how doth he lead such a life, who doth not so much as maintain the duty of prayer? How can such a man be said to walk by the spirit, and to be a servant of the most high GOD.—An holy life is a life of faith. The life that true Christians live in the world, they live by the faith of the son of GOD. But who can believe that that man lives by faith, who lives without prayer which is the natural expression of faith? Prayer is as natural an expression of faith, as breathing is of life; and to say a man lives a life of faith, and yet lives a prayerless life, is every whit 〈…〉 inconsistent and incredible, as to say that a man lives without breathing. A prayerless life is so far from being an holy life that it is a profane life: he ⟨p. 130⟩that lives so, lives like an heathen, who calleth not on GOD'S name: he that lives a prayerless life, lives without GOD in the world.