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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.
BEFORE I conclude this head, it may be proper for me to answer an objection or two, that may arise in the mids of some.
1. It may be here said, We have instances, wherein ⟨p. 190⟩GOD hath not fulfilled his threatenings; as his threatening to Adam and in him to mankind, that they should surely die, if they should eat the forbidden fruit. I answer, It is not true that GOD did not fulfil that threatening: he fulfilled it, and will […] it in every jot and tittle.—When GOD said, Thou shalt surely die, if we respect spiritual death, it was fulfilled in Adam's person in the day that he ate. GOD immediately took away his image, his holy spirit, and original righteousness, which was the highest and best life of our […] are •ts; and th•y were immediately in a doleful state of spiritual death.
1. It may be here said, We have instances, wherein ⟨p. 190⟩GOD hath not fulfilled his threatenings; as his threatening to Adam and in him to mankind, that they should surely die, if they should eat the forbidden fruit. I answer, It is not true that GOD did not fulfil that threatening: he fulfilled it, and will 〈…〉 it in every jot and tittle.—When GOD said, Thou shalt surely die, if we respect spiritual death, it was fulfilled in Adam's person in the day that he ate. GOD immediately took away his image, his holy spirit, and original righteousness, which was the highest and best life of our 〈…〉 are •ts; and th•y were immediately in a doleful state of spiritual death.