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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.
MEN in their wills or testaments, most commonly give their estates to their children. So believers are in scripture represented as CHRIST'S children. Heb. ii. 13. Behold, I, and the children which GOD hath given me. Men most commonly make their wills a little before their death: so CHRIST did in a very special and solemn manner, make-over and confirm to his disciples the blessings of the new covenant, on the evening before the day of his crucifixion, in that discourse of which my text is a part. The promises of the new covenant were never so particularly expressed, and so solemnly given forth by CHRIST in all the time that he was upon earth, as in this discourse. CHRIST promises them mansions in his fathers house chapter xiv. 1, 2, 3. Here he promises them whatever blessings they should need and ask in his name. Chapter xv. 7. xvi. 23, 24. Here he does more solemnly and fully than any where else, give forth and confirm the promise of the HOLY SPIRIT, which is the sum of the ⟨p. 206⟩blessings of the covenant of grace. Chap. xiv. 16.—xvii. 26.—xv. 25.—xvi. 7. Here he promises them his own and his father's gracious presence and favour. Chapter xiv. 18.—xix. 20, 21. Here he promises them peace in the text. Here he promises them his joy. Chapter xv. 11. Here he promises grace to bring forth holy fruits—Chapter xv. 11. And victory over the world. Chapter xvi. 33. And indeed there seems to be no where else so full and complete an edition of the covenant of grace in the whole bible, as in this dying discourse of CHRIST with his eleven true disciples.
MEN in their wills or testaments, most commonly give their estates to their children. So believers are in scripture represented as CHRIST'S children. Heb. ii. 13. Behold, I, and the children which GOD hath given me. Men most commonly make their wills a little before their death: so CHRIST did in a very special and solemn manner, make-over and confirm to his disciples the blessings of the new covenant, on the evening before the day of his crucifixion, in that discourse of which my text is a part. The promises of the new covenant were never so particularly expressed, and so solemnly given forth by CHRIST in all the time that he was upon earth, as in this discourse. CHRIST promises them mansions in his fathers house chapter xiv. 1, 2, 3. Here he promises them whatever blessings they should need and ask in his name. Chapter xv. 7. xvi. 23, 24. Here he does more solemnly and fully than any where else, give forth and confirm the promise of the HOLY SPIRIT, which is the sum of the