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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
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IT is required of every man, that he not only do something in this business, but that he should devote himself to it, which implies that he should give up himself to it, give up all his affairs, and all his temporal enjoyments. This is the import of taking up the cross, of taking CHRIST'S yoke upon us, and of denying ourselves to follow CHRIST. The rich young man, who came kneeling to CHRIST, to know what he should do to be saved (Mark x. 17.) in some sense sought salvation, but did not obtain it. He in some sense kept all the commands from his youth up; but he was not cordially devoted to this business. He had not made a sacrifice to it of all his enjoyments, as appeared when CHRIST came to try him; he would not part with his estate for him.
IT is required of every man, that he not only do something in this business, but that he should devote himself to it, which imples that he should give up himself to it, give up all his affairs, and all his temporal enjoyments. This is the import of taking up the cross, of taking CHRIST'S yoke upon us, and of denying ourselves to follow CHRIST. The rich young man, who came kneeling to CHRIST, to know what he should do to be saved (Mark x. 17.) in some sense sought salvation, but did not obtain it. He in some sense kept all the commands from his youth up; but he was not cordially devoted to this business. He had not made a sacrifice to it of all his enjoyments, as appeared when CHRIST came to try him; he would not part with his estate for him.
IT is not only necessary that men should seem to be very much engaged, and appear as if they were devoted to their duty for a little while; but there must be a constant devotedness; they must be devoted to this work in a persevering way, as Noah was to the business of building the ark, going on with that great, difficult, and expensive affair, and holding out through the one hundred and twenty years, till it was finished, and till the flood came.—Men must not only be diligent in the use of the means of grace, and be anxiously engaged to escape eternal ruin, till they obtain hope and comfort; but afterwards they must persevere in the duties of religion, till the flood come, the flood of death.—Not only must the faculties, strength, and possessions of men