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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 eternal punishment of the wicked is said to be the second death, once and again, as Rev. xx. 14. and xxi. 8.—It is doubtless called the second death in reference to the death of the body; and as the death of the body is ordinarily attended with great pain and distress, so the like, or something vastly greater, i• implied to calling the eternal punishment of the wicked; the second death; and there would be no propriety in calling it to, if it consisted merely in annihilation. And this […] death wicked men will suffer; for it cannot be called the second death, with respect to any other than men; it cannot be called so with respect to devils, as they die no temporal death, which is the first death. In Rev▪ ii. 11. It is said, He that overcometh, shall not be hurt of the second death; implying that all who do not overcome their lusts, but live in sin, shall suffer the second death.
THE eternal punishment of the wicked is said to be the second death, once and again, as Rev. xx. 14. and xxi. 8.—It is doubtless called the second death in referrence to the death of the body; and as the death of the body is ordinarily attended with great pain and distress, so the like, or something vastly greater, i• implied to calling the eternal punishment of the wicked; the second death; and there would be no propriety in calling it to, if it consisted merely in annihilation. And this 〈…〉 death wicked men will suffer; for it cannot be called the second death, with respect to any other than men; it cannot be called so with respect to devils, as they die no temporal death, which is the first death. In Rev▪ ii. 11. It is said, He that overcometh, shall not be hurt of the second death; implying that all who do not overcome their lusts, but live in sin, shall suffer the second death.