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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
Sermon 9: The future Punishment of the Wicked unavoidable and intolerable.
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.
1. THE nature of their punishment is more generally represented in that therein GOD will undertake to deal with them: GOD here threatens to deal with the sinners in Jerusalem. The prophets could do nothing with them. GOD had sent them one after another; but those sinners were too strong for them, and beat one and killed another. Therefore now GOD himself undertakes to deal with them.
2. THEIR punishment is more particularly represented in three things, viz. the intolerableness, the remedilessness, and the unavoidableness of it.
(1). THE intolerableness of it: can thine heart endure?
(2). THE remedilessness, or the impossibility of their doing any thing for their own relief: can thine hands be strong?