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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.
BY these means true saints are brought into a state of freedom from condemnation, and all the curses of the law of GOD. Rom. viii. 34. Who is he that condemneth? And by these means they are safe from that dreadful and eternal misery which naturally they are exposed to, and are set on high out of the reach of all their enemies, so that the gates of hell and powers of darkness can never destroy them; nor can wicked men, tho' they may persecute them, ever hurt them. Rom. viii. 31. If GOD be for us, who can be against us? Num. xxiii, 8. How shall I curse whom GOD hath not cursed. verse 23. There is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there ⟨p. 208⟩any divination against Israel. By these means they are out of reach of death, John. vi, 4—ix, 50, 51. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. By these means death with respect to them has lost its sting, and is no more worthy of the name of death 1 Cor. xv. 55. "O death where is thy sting"? By these means they have no need to be afraid of the day of judgment when the heavens and earth shall be dissolved. Ps. xlvi. 1, 2. GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. Yea a true saint has reason to be at rest in an assurance, that nothing can separate him from the love of GOD. Rom. viii. 38, 39.
THUS he that is got into CHRIST is in a safe refuge from every thing that might disturb him; for this is that man spoken of Isa. xxxii, 2. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And hence they that dwell in CHRIST have that promise fulfilled to them which we have in the 18th verse of the same chapter; And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.