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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.
MANY after they have obtained some saving comfort, are again involved in darkness and trouble. It is with them as it was with the christian Hebrews, of whom we read Heb. x. 32. After the were illuminated ye endured, a great fight of afflictions. Some through a melancholy habit and distemper of body, together with satan's temptations, spend a great part of their lives in distress and darkness, even after they have had some saving comfort.
MANY after they have obtained some saving comfort, are again involved in darkness and trouble. It is with them as it was with the christian Hebrews, of whom we read Heb. x. 32. After ye were illuminated ye endured, a great fight of afflictions. Some through a melancholy habit and distemper of body, together with satan's temptations, spend a great part of their lives in distress and darkness, even after they have had some saving comfort.
5. IT is a business, which by reason of the many difficulties, snares and dangers that attend it, requires much instruction consideration and counsel. There is no business wherein men stand in need of counsel more than in this. It is a difficult undertaking, an hard matter to proceed aright in it. There are ten thousand wrong ways, which men may take; there are many labyrinths wherein many poor souls are entangled and never find the way out; there are many rocks on which thousands of souls have suffered shipwreck, for want of having steered a•ight.
MEN of themselves know not how to proceed in this business, any more than the children of Israel in the wilderness know where to go without the guidance