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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.
WHOEVER thou art, whether young or old, little or great, if thou art in a christless, unconverted state, this is the wrath, this is the death to which thou art condemned. This is the wrath that abideth on thee; this is the hell over which thou hangest, and into which thou art ready to drop every day and every night.
WHOEVER thou art, whether young or old, little or great, if thou art in a christless, unconverted state, this is the wrath, this is the death to which thou art condemned. This is the wrath that abide•h on thee; this is the hell over which thou hangest, and into which thou art ready to drop every day and every night.
IF thou shalt remain blind, and hard, and dead i• sin a little longer, this destruction will come upon thee: GOD hath spoken, and he will do it. It is vain for thee to flatter thyself with hopes, that thou shalt avoid it, or to say in thine heart, perhaps it will not be; perhaps it will not be just so; perhaps things have been represented worse than they are. If thou will not be convinced by the word preached to thee by men, in the name of GOD; GOD himself will undertake to convince thee. Ezek. xiv. 4, 7, 8.
DOTH it seem to thee not real that thou shalt suffer such a dreadful destruction, because it seems to ⟨p. 162⟩thee, that thou dost not deserve it? and because thou dost not see any thing so horrid in thyself, as to answer such a dreadful punishment?—Why is it that thy wickedness doth not seem bad enough to deserve this punishment? The reason is, that thou lovest thy wickedness; thy wickedness seems good to thee; it appears lovely to thee; thou dost not see any hatefulness in it, or to be sure, any such hatefulness as to answer such misery.