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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.
2. GOD glorifies his justice.—The glory of GOD is the greatest good; it is that which is the chief end of the creation; it is a thing of greater importance than any thing else. But this is one way wherein GOD will glorify himself, as in the eternal destruction of ungodly men, he will glorify his justice. Therein he will appear as a just governor of the world. The vindictive justice of God will appear strict, exact, awful and terrible, and therefore glorious.
3. GOD hereby indirectly glorifies his grace on the vessels of mercy.—The saints in heaven will be hold the torments of the damned: the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. Isai. lxvi. 24. And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men, that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. And in Rev. xiv. 10. It is said, that they shall be tormented in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb.—So they will be tormented in the presence also of the glorified saints.
3. GOD hereby indirectly glorifies his grace on the vessels of mercy.—The saints in heaven will be hold the torments of the damned: the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. Isai. lxvi. 24. And they shall go forth and look upon the carcases of the men, that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. And in Rev. xiv. 10. It is said, that they shall be tormented in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb.—So they will be tormented in the presence also of the glorified saints.