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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.
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 ⟨p. 218⟩youth, you have this day an offer made to you of that excellent and everlasting peace and blessedness, which CHRIST has purchased with the price of his own blood, and bestows only on those that are his peculiar favourites, his redeemed ones, that are his portion and treasure, the objects of his everlasting love. As long as you continue to reject those offers and invitations of CHRIST and continue in a christless condition, you never will enjoy any true peace or comfort; but in whatever circumstances you are, you will be miserable; you will be like the prodigal that in vain endeavoured to fill his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: the wrath of GOD will abide upon and misery will attend you wherever you go, which you never will by any means be able to escape. CHRIST gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to him. He heals the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. But it is impossible that they should have peace, that continue in their sins. Isai. lvii. 19, 20, 21. There is no peace between GOD and them; as they have the guilt of sin remaining […] their souls, and are under the dominion of sin, so GOD'S indignation continually burns against them, and therefore there is reason why they should travail in pain all their days. While you continue in such a state, you live in a state of dreadful uncertainty what will become of you, and in continual danger. When you are in the enjoyment of things that are the most pleasing to you, where your heart is best suited, and most cheerful, yet you are in a state of condemnation, hanging over the infernal pit, with the sword of divine vengeance hanging over your head, having no security one moment from utter and remediless destruction. What reasonable peace can any one enjoy in such a state as this. What does it signify […] take ⟨p. 219⟩such an one and clothe him in gorgeous apparel, or to set him on a throne, or at a princes table and feed him with the rarest dainties the earth affords? and how miserable is the ease and cheerfulness that such have!
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