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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.
I. CHRIST at his death made over the blessings of the new-covenant to believers, as it were in a will or testament. II. A GREAT blessing that CHRIST made over to believers in this his testament was his peace. III. THIS legacy of CHRIST is exceeding diverse from all that any of the men of this world ever leave to their children, when they die,
I. CHRIST at his death made over the blessings of the new covenant to believers, as it were in a will or testament.
THE new covenant is represented by the apostle as CHRIST'S last will and testament. Heb. ix. 15, 16, And for this cause he is mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. ⟨p. 205⟩What men convey by their will or testament, is their own estate. So CHRIST in the new covenant conveys to believers his own inheritance, so far as they are capable of possessing and enjoying it. They have that eternal life given to them in their measure, which CHRIST himself possesses. They live in him, and with him, and by a participation of his life. Because he lives they live also. They inherit his kingdom: the same kingdom which the father appointed unto him. Luke xxii. 29. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my father hath appointed unto me. They shall reign on his throne, Rev. iii. 21. They have his glory given to them.