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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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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.
NOW CHRIST rested from his works, when he rose from the dead, on the first day of the we•k. When he rose from the de••, then he finished his work of redemption; his humiliation was then at an end; he then rested and was refreshed.—When it is said in this place, There remaineth a rest to the people of of GOD, i• the original it is, a sabbatism, or the keeping of a sabbath: And this reason is given for it, For he that entered into his rest, he also hath ceased ⟨p. 245⟩from his own works, as GOD did from his. Th•se three things at least we are taught by these words:
(1.) WE are taught by them to look upon CHRIST'S rest from his work of redemption, as parallel with GOD'S rest from the work of creation, for they are expressly compared together, as parallel one with the other: