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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.
BUT the threatenings of eternal wrath are positive and absolute There is nothing in the word of GOD, from which we can gather any condition. The only opportunity of escaping is in this world; this is the only state of trial, wherein we have any offers of mercy, or there is any place for repentance.
BUT the threatenings of eternal wrath are positive and absolute There is nothing in the word of GOD, from which we can gather any condition. The only opportunity of escaping is in this world; this is the only state of trial, wherein we have any offers of mercy, or there is any place for repentence.
IV. I SHALL mention several good and important ends, which will be obtained by the eternal punishment of the wicked.
1. HEREBY GOD vindicates his injured majesty. Wherein sinners cast contempt upon it, and trample it in the dust, GOD vindicates and honours it, and makes it appear, as it is indeed, infinite, by showing that it is infinitely dreadful to contemn or offend it.
1. HEREBY GOD vindicates his injured majesty. Wherein sinners cast contempt upon it, and trample it in the dust, GOD vindicates and honors it, and makes it appear, as it is indeed, infinite, by showing that it is infinitely dreadful to contemn or offend it.