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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.
DOTH it seem to thee incredible that GOD should be so utterly regardless of the sinner's welfare, as so to sink him into an infinite abyss of misery? Is this shocking to thee? And is it not at all shocking to thee, that thou shouldest be so utterly regardless, as thou hast been, of the honour and glory of the infinite GOD?
DOTH it seem to thee incredible that GOD should be so utterly regardless of the sinner's welfare, as so to sink him into an infinite abyss of misery? Is this shocking to thee? And is it not at all shocking to thee, that thou shouldest be so utterly regardless, as thou hast been, of the honor and glory of the infinite GOD?
IT arises from thy foolish stupidity and senselessness, and is because thou hast an heart of stone, that thou art so senseless of thine own wickedness, as to think that thou hast not deserved such a punishment, and that it is to thee incredible that it will be inflicted upon thee.—But if, when all is said and done, thou be not convinced, wait but a little while, and thou wilt be convinced: GOD will undertake to do the work which ministers cannot do.—Though judgment against thine evil works be not yet executed, and GOD now let thee alone; yet he will soon come upon thee with his great power, and then thou shalt know what GOD is, and what thou art.
FLATTER not thyself, that if these things shall prove true, and the worst shall come, thou wilt set thy self to bear it as well as thou canst. What will it signify, to set thyself to bear, and to collect thy strength to support thyself, when thou shalt fall into the hands of that omnipotent king, Jehovah? He that made thee, can make his sword approach unto thee. His sword is not the sword of man, nor is his wrath the wrath of man. If it were, possibly stoutness might be maintained under it. But it is the fierceness of the wrath of the great GOD, who is able to baffle and dissipate all thy strength in a moment. He can fill thy poor soul with an ocean of wrath, a deluge of fire and brimstone; or he can make it ten thousand times fuller of torment, than ever an oven was full of fire; and at the same time can fill it with despair of ever seeing any end to its torment, or any rest from its misery and then where will be thy strength? what will become of thy courage then? what will signify thine attempts to bear?