N13259:636
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.
IT is true, these words did carry something further in their meaning, as they were spoken to the Jews, and to the church before the coming of CHRIST: it was then also intended by them, that the seventh day was to be kept in commemoration of the work of creation. But this is no objection to the supposition, that the words, as they relate to us, do not import all that they did, as they related to the Jews. For there are other words which were written upon those tables of stone, with the ten commandments, which are ⟨p. 242⟩known and allowed not to be of the same import, as they relate to us, which they were of, as they related to the Jews, viz. these words in the preface to the ten commands, I am the LORD thy GOD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.—These words were written on the tables of stone with the rest, and these words are spoken to us, as well as to the Jews: they are spoken to all, to whom the commandments themselves are spoken, for they are spoken as an enforcement of the commandments. But they do not now remain in all the signification, which they had as they respected the Jews. For we never were brought out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, except in a mystical sense.—The same may be said of those words which are inserted in the commandments themselves, Deut. v. 15. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy GOD brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, and a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy GOD commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
So that all the arguments of those, who are against the christian sabbath drawn from the fourth command, which are all their strength, come to nothing.