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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.
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?
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?