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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.
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.
HEREBY the saints will be made the more sensible how great their salvation is. When they shall see how great the misery is, from which GOD hath saved them, and how great a difference he hath made between their state, and the state of others, who were by nature, and perhaps by practice, no more sinful and ill-deserving than they; it will give them more of a sense of the wonderfulness of GOD'S grace to them. Every time they look upon the damned, it will excite in them a lively and admiring sense of the grace of GOD, in making them so to differ. This the apostle informs us is one end of the damnation of ungodly men;