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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.
THE spirits of ungodly men before the resurrection, are not in a state of annihilation, but in a state of misery; they are spirits in prison, as the apostle saith of them that were drowned in the flood; 1 Pet. iii. 19.—And this appears very plainly from the instance of the rich man, before mentioned, if we consider him as representing the wicked in their separate state, between death and the resurrection. But if the wicked even then, are in a state of torment, much more will they •e, when they shall come to suffer that which is the proper punishment of their sins.
THE spirits of ungodly men before the resurrection, are not in a state of annihilation, but in a state of misery; they are spirits in prison, as the apostle saith of them that were drowned in the flood; 1 Pet. iii. 19.—And this appears very plainly from the instance of the rich man, before mentioned, if we consider him as representing the wicked in their seperate state, between death and the resurrection. But if the wicked even then, are in a state of torment, much more will they •e, when they shall come to suffer that which is the proper punishment of their sins.
ANNIHILATION is not so great a calamity but that some men have undoubtedly chosen it, rather than such a state of suffering, as they have been in, even in this life. This was the case of Job, a good man. But if a good man in this world may suffer that which is worse than annihilation; doubtless the proper punishment of the wicked, in which GOD means to manifest his peculiar abhorrence of their wickedness, will be a calamity vastly greater still; and therefore cannot be annihilation. That must be a very mean and contemptible testimony of GOD'S wrath towards those who have rebelled against his crown and dignity, have ⟨p. 182⟩broken his laws, and despised both his vengeance and his grace, which is not so great a calamity, as some of his true children have suffered in life.