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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.
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.
IF we respect temporal death, that was also fulfilled: he brought death upon himself and all his posterity, and he virtually suffered that death on that very day on which he ate. His body was brought into a corruptible, mortal and dying condition, and so it continued till it was dissolved.—If we look at eternal death, and indeed all that death, which was comprehended in the threatening, it was properly speaking fulfilled in CHRIST. When GOD said to Adam, If thou eaest, thou shalt die, he spake not only to him, and of him personally; but the words respected mankind, Adam and his race, and doubtless were so understood by him. His offspring were to be looked upon as sinning in him, and so should die with him. The words do as justly allow of an modlation of death, as of sin; they are as well consistent with dying in a surety, as with sinning in one. Therefore the threatening is fulfilled in the death of CHRIST, the surety.