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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.
2. THE time of their entrance on this everlasting punishment; viz. after the day of judgment, at the end of the world, when all these things, that are of a temporary continuance, shall have come to an end, and even those of them that are most lasting, the frame of the world itself; the earth which is said to abide for ever; the ancient mountains and everlasting hills; the sun, moon and stars. When the heavens shall have waxed old like a garment, and as a vesture shall be changed, then shall be the time when the wicked shall enter on their punishment.
2. THE time of their entrance on this everlasting punishment; viz. after the day of judgment, at the end of the world, when all these things, that are of a temporary continuance, shall have come to an end, and even those of them that are most lasting, the frame of the world itself; the earth which is said to abide for ever; the antient mountains and everlasting hills; the sun, moon and stars. When the heavens shall have waxed old like a garment, and as a vesture shall be changed, then shall be the time when the wicked shall enter on their punishment.
DOCTRINE. The misery of the wicked in hell, will be absolutely eternal.
THERE ar• […] diverse opinions that I mean to oppose in this […]. One is, that the eternal death that wicked men are threatened with in scripture, signifies no more than eternal annihilation; that men will be the subjects of eternal death, as they will be slain, and their life finally and forever be extinguished by GOD'S anger; that GOD will punish their wickedness by eternally abolishing their being, and so that they shall suffer eternal death in this sense, that they shall be eternally dead, and never more come to life.