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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.
THE gospel state is every where spoken of as a renewed state of things, wherein old things are passed away, and all things become new: We are said to be created in Christ Jesus unto good works: all things are restored and reconciled whether in heaven or in earth, and GOD hath caused light to shine out of darkness, as he did at the beginning; and the dissolution of the Jewish state was often s••k •n of in the old testament, as the end of the world.—But we who belong to the gospel church, belong to the new creation, and therefore there seems to be at least as much reason, that we should commemorate the work of this creation, as that the members of the ancient Jewish church should commemorate the work of the old creation.
THE gospel state is every where spoken of as a renewed state of things, wherein old things are passed away, and all things become new: We are said to be created in Christ Jesus unto good works: all things are restored and reconciled whether in heaven or in earth, and GOD hath caused light to shine out of darkness, as he did at the beginning; and the dissolution of the Jewish state was often s••k •n of in the old testament, as the end of the world.—But we who belong to the gospel church, b•long to the new creation, and therefore there seems to be atleast as much reason, that we should commemorate the work of this creation, as that the members of the antient Jewish church should commemorate the work of the old creation.
3. THERE is another thing which confirms it, that the fourth command reaches GOD'S resting from the new creation, as well as from the old; which is, that the scriptures do expressly speak of the one, as parallel with the other, i. e. CHRIST'S resting from the work of redemption, as expressly spoken of as being parallel with God's resting from the work of creation, as in Heb. iv 10. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as GOD did from his.