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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.
THIS promise he delivers in three emphatical expressions which illustrate one another. "Peace I leave with you." As much as to say, though I am going away, yet I will not take all comfort away with me. While I have been with you, I have been your support and comfort, and you have had peace in me, in the midst of the losses you have sustained and troubles you have met with in this evil generation. This peace I will not take from you, but leave it with you with great advantage, and in a more full possession.
"My peace I give unto you." CHRIST by calling it his peace signifies two things.
1. THAT it was his own, that which he had to give. It was the peculiar benefit that he had to bestow on his children; now he was about to die and leave the world as to his human presence. Silver and gold he had none: for while in his estate of humiliation he was poor. The foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests: but the son of […] had not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58. He had no earthly estate to leave to his disciples who were as it were his family: but he had peace to give them.
1. THAT it was his own, that which he had to give. It was the peculiar benefit that he had to bestow on his children; now he was about to die and leave the world as to his human presence. Silver and gold he had none: for while in his estate of humiliation he was poor. The foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests: but the son of 〈…〉 had not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58. He had no earthly estate to leave to his disciples who were as it were his family: but he had peace to give them.