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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. 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.
2. IT was his peace that he gave them; as it was the same kind of peace which he himself enjoyed. The same excellent and divine peace which he ever had in GOD; and which he was about to receive in his exalted state in a vastly greater perfection and fullness: for the happiness CHRIST gives to his people, is a participation of his own happiness: agreeable to what CHRIST says in this same dying discourse of his, chapter xv. 11 These things have I said unto you that my joy might remain in you. And in his prayer that he made with his disciples at the conclusion of this discourse. Chapter xvii. 13. And now come I unto thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. And verse 22. And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them.