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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.
DOCTRINE.
SINCE GOD hath undertaken to deal with impenitent sinners, they shall neither shun the threatened misery, nor deliver themselves out of it, no• can they bear it.
SINCE GOD hath untertaken to deal with impenitent sinners, they shall neither shun the threatened misery, nor deliver themselves out of it, no• can they bear it.
IN handling this doctrine, I shall 1. Show what is implied in GOD'S undertaking to deal with impenitent sinners. 2. That therefore they cannot avoid punishment. 3. That they cannot in any measure deliver themselves from it, or do any thing for their own relief under it. 4. That they cannot bear it. 5. I shall answer an inquiry; and then proceed to the use.
I. I SHALL show what is implied in GOD'S undertaking to deal with impenitent sinners.—Others are not able to deal with them. They baffle all the means used with them by those that are appointed to teach and to rule over them. They will not yield to parents; or to the counsel•, warnings or reproofs of ministers: they prove obstinate and stiff-hearted. Therefore GOD undertakes to deal with them.—This implies the following things.