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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.
APPLICATION.
THE use that I would make of this doctrine […] to improve it as an inducement unto all to for••• […] world, no longer seeking peace and rest in its van••••, and to cleave to CHRIST and follow him. Happiness and rest is what all men are in pursuit of. But the things of the world, wherein most men seek […] can never afford it; they are labouring and spending themselves […] vain. But CHRIST invites you to come to him, and offers you this peace which he gives his true followers, that so much excels all that the world can afford. Isai. lv. 2, 3.
THE use that I would make of this doctrine 〈…〉 to improve it as an inducement unto all to for••• 〈…〉 world, no longer seeking peace and rest in its van••••, and to cleave to CHRIST and follow him. Happiness and rest is what all men are in pursuit of. But the things of the world, wherein most men seek 〈…〉 can never afford it; they are labouring and spending themselves 〈…〉 vain. But CHRIST invites you to come to him, and offers you this peace which he gives his true followers, that so much excels all that the world can afford. Isai. lv. 2, 3.
YOU that have hitherto spent your time in the pursuit of satisfaction and peace in the profit or glory of […] world, or in the pleasures and vanities of