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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.
3. THE scripture teaches that the wicked will suffer different degrees of torment, according to the different aggravations of their sins. Mat. v. 22. Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire. Here CHRIST teaches us that the torments of wicked men will be different in different persons, according to the different degrees of their guilt.—It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah, for Tyre and Sidon, than for the cities where most of CHRIST'S mighty works were wrought.—Again, our LORD assures ••s, That he that knoweth his LORD'S will, and prepareth not himself, nor doth according to his will, ⟨p. 180⟩shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knoweth not, and committeth things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes.—These several passages of scripture infallibly prove that there will be different degrees of punishment in hell; which is utterly inconsistent with the supposition, that that punishment consists in annihilation, in which there can be no degrees, but is the same thing to every one who is the subject of it.
3. THE scripture teaches that the wicked will suffer different degrees of torment, according to the different aggravations of their sins. Mat. v. 22. Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire. Here CHRIST teaches us that the torments of wicked men will be different in different persons, according to the different degrees of their guilt.—It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha, for Tyre and Sidon, than for the cities where most of CHRIST'S mighty works were wrought.—Again, our LORD assures ••s, That he that knoweth his LORD'S will, and prepareth not himself, nor doth according to his will, ⟨p. 180⟩