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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.
(3.) IT is evident, in these words, that the preference is given to the latter rest, viz. the rest of our SAVIOUR from his works, with respect to the influence it should have, or relation it bears, to the sabbatizing of the people of GOD, now under the gospel, evidently implied in the expression, There remaineth therefore a sabbatism to the people of GOD. For he that entered into his rest, &c For, in this expression, There remaineth, it is intimated, that the old sabbatism appointed in remembrance of GOD'S ⟨p. 246⟩rest from the work of creation, doth not remain, but ceases; and that this new rest, in commemoration of CHRIST'S resting from his works, remains in the room of it.
4. THE Holy Ghost hath implicitly told us, that the sabbath which was instituted in commemoration of the old creation, should not be kept in gospel times, in Isai. lxv. 17, 18. There we are told, that when GOD should create new heavens and a new earth, the […] should not be remembered nor come into mind. If this be so, it is not to be supposed that we are to keep a seventh part of time, on purpose to remember it and call it to mind.
4. THE Holy Ghost hath implicitly told us, that the sabbath which was instituted in commemoration of the old creation, should not be kept in gospel times, in Isai. lxv. 17, 18. There we are told, that when GOD should create new heavens and a new earth, the 〈…〉 should not be remembered nor come into mind. If this be so, it is not to be supposed that we are to keep a seventh part of time, on purpose to remember it and call it to mind.