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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.
AND, as the old creation was no more to be remembered, nor come into mind, so in the ••lowing verse the church is directed for ever to commemorate the new ⟨p. 247⟩creation: But be you glad and rejoice for ever […] that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy. i. e. tho' you forgot the old, yet for ever to the end of the world, keep a joyful remembrance of the new creation.
AND, as the old creation was no more to be remembered, nor come into mind, so in the ••lowing verse the church is directed for ever to commemorate the new ⟨p. 247⟩creation: But be you glad and rejoice for ever 〈…〉 that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy. i. e. tho' you forgot the old, yet for ever to the end of the world, keep a joyful remembrance of the new creation.
5. IT is an argument that the Jewish sabbath was not to be perpetual, that the Jews were commanded to keep it in remembrance of their deliverance out of Egypt. One reason why it was instituted was, because GOD thus delivered them, as we are expressly told in the decalogue itself, in one of the places where we have it recorded in the books of Moses; 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 by a stretched out a•m: therefore the LORD thy GOD commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.—Now, can any person think, that GOD would have all nations under the gospel and to the end of the world, keep a day every week, which was instituted in remembrance of the deliverance of the Jews out of Egypt?