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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.
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?
WHAT art thou in the hands of the great GOD who made heaven and earth by speaking a […] ⟨p. 165⟩What art thou, when dealt with by that strength, which manages all this vast universe, holds the globe of the earth, directs all the motions of the heavenly bodies from age to age, and when the fixed time shall come, will shake all to pieces?—There are other wicked beings a thousand times stronger than thou: there are the great Leviathan's, strong and proud spirits of a gigan•••k stoutness and hardiness. But how little are they in the hands of the great GOD! they are less than weak infants; they are nothing, and less than nothing in the hands of an angry GOD, as will appear at the day of judgment.—Their hearts will be broken; they will sink; they will have no strength nor courage left; they will be as weak as water; their souls will sink down into an infinite gloom, and abyss of death and despair.—Then what will become of thee, a poor worm, when thou shalt fall into the hands of that GOD, what he shall come to show his wrath, and make his power known on thee?