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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 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, ⟨p. 153⟩by reason of the many things, which will be the objects of attention on that day,—Neither is there any hope that they will be able to crowd themselves in among the multitude of the saints at the right hand of the judge, and so go to heaven undiscovered.—Nor is there any hope that GOD will alter his mind, or that he will repent of what he hath said; for he is not the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he […] and shall he not make it good? When did GOD ever undertake to do any thing and fail? I come now,
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, ⟨p. 153⟩by reason of the many things, which will be the objects of attention on that day,—Neither is there any hope that they will be able to croud themselves in among the multitude of the saints at the right hand of the judge, and so go to heaven undiscovered.—Nor is there any hope that GOD will alter his mind, or that he will repent of what he hath said; for he is not the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he 〈…〉 and shall he not make it good? When did GOD ever undertake to do any thing and fail? I come now,
III. To show that as impenitent sinners cannot shun the threatened punishment; so neither can they do any thing to deliver themselves from it, or to relieve themselves under it. This is implied in those words of the text, Can thine hands be strong? It is with our hands that we make and accomplish things for ourselves. But the wicked in hell will have no strength of hand to accomplish any thing at all for themselves, or to bring to pass any deliverance, or any degree of relief.