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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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1. PROP. IT is sufficiently clear, that it is the mind of GOD, that one day of the week should be devoted ⟨p. 228⟩to rest, and to religious exercises, throughout all ages and nations; and not only among the ancient Israelites, till CHRIST came, but even in these gospel times, and among all nations professing Christianity.
1. PROP. IT is sufficiently clear, that it is the mind of GOD, that one day of the week should be devoted ⟨p. 228⟩to rest, and to religious exercises, throughout all ages and nations; and not only among the antient Israelites, till CHRIST came, but even in these gospel times, and among all nations professing Christianity.
I. FROM the consideration of the nature and state of mankind in this world, it is most consonant to human reason, that certain fixed parts of time should be set apart, to be spent by the church wholly in religious exercises, and in the duties of divine worship. It is a duty incumbent on all mankind, in all ages a like, to worship and serve GOD. His service should be our great business. It becomes us to worship him with the greatest devotion and engagedness of mind; and therefore to put ourselves, at proper times, in such circumstances, as will most contribute to render our minds entirely devoted to this work, without being diverted or interrupted by other things.
THE state of mankind in this world is such, that we are called to concern ourselves in secular business and affairs, which will necessarily, in a considerable degree, take up the thoughts and engage the attention of the mind. However, some particular persons may be in such circumstances, as to be more free and disengaged; yet the state of mankind is such, that the bulk of them, in all ages and nations, are called ordinarily to exercise their thoughts about secular affairs, and to follow worldly business, which in it's own nature, is remote from the solemn duties of religion.