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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.
THERE is no hope that possibly they may steal away to heaven, though they die unconverted. There is no hope that they can deceive GOD by any false show of repentance and faith, and so be taken to heaven through mistake: for the eyes of GOD are as a flame of fire; they perfectly see through every man; the inmost closet of the heart is all open to him.
THERE is no hope of escaping the threatened punishment by sinking into nothing at death, like brute creatures. Indeed many wicked men upon their death-beds wish for this. If it were so, death would be nothing to them in comparison with what it now is. But all such wishes are vain.
THERE is no hope of their escaping without notice, when they leave the body. There is no hope that GOD by reason of the multiplicity of affairs, which he hath to mind, will happen to overlook them, and not take notice of them, when they come to die; and so that their souls will slip away privately, and hide themselves in some secret corner, and so escape divine vengeance.
THERE is no hope that they shall be missed in a crowd, at the day of judgment, and that they can have opportunity to hide themselves in some […] or den of the mountains, or in any secret hole of the earth; and that while so doing they will not be minded,