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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
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AND by other passages of the new testament, we learn that the case was the same as to other exercises of religion; and that in the age of the apostles, the first day of the week was preferred before any other day, among the primitive christians and in churches immediately under the care of the apostles, for an attendance on the exercises of religion in general. Acts xx. 7. Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them.—It seems by these things to have been among the primitive christians in the apostles days, with respect to the first day of the week, as it was among the Jews, with respect to the seventh.
WE are taught by CHRIST, that the doing of alms and showing of mercy are proper works for the sabbath day. When the Pharisees found fault with CHRIST for suffering his disciples to pluck the ears of corn and eat on the sabbath. CHRIST corrects ⟨p. 224⟩them with that, I will have mercy and not sacrifice; Mat. xii. 7. And CHRIST teaches that works of mercy are proper to be done on the sabbath, in Luke xiii. 15, 16. and xiv. 5.—These works used to be done on sacred festivals and days of rejoicing, under the old testament, as in Nehemiah's and Esther's time; Neh. viii. 10. and Esth. ix. 19, 22.—And Josephus and Philo, two very noted Jews, who wrote not long after CHRIST'S time, give an account that it was the manner among the Jews on the sabbath, to make collections for sacred and pious uses.