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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 uses the same way of speaking to set forth the eternity of the punishment of the wicked, that it uses to set forth the eternity of the happiness of the righteous, o• the eternity of GOD himself. Mat. xxv. 46. These shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. The words everlasting and eternal, in the original, are the very same. Rev. xxii. 5. And they (the saints) shall reign for ever and ever. And the scripture has no higher expression to signify the eternity o• […] himself, than that of his being for ever and ever, as Rev. iv. 9. To him who sat on the throne, who liveth so ever and ever, and in the 10th verse, and in ch. v. 14. and ch. x. 6. and ch. xv. 7.
3. THE scripture uses the same way of speaking to set forth the eternity of the punishment of the wicked, that it uses to set forth the eternity of the happiness of the righteous, o• the eternity of GOD himself. Mat. xxv. 46. These shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. The words everlasting and eternal, in the original, are the very same. Rev. xxii. 5. And they (the saints) shall reign for ever and ever. And the scripture has no higher expression to signify the eternity o• 〈…〉 himself, than that of his being for ever and ever, as Rev. iv. 9. To him who sat on the throne, who liveth so ever and ever, and in the 10th verse, and in ch. v. 14. and ch. x. 6. and ch. xv. 7.