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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.
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?
6. THE Holy Ghost hath implicitly told us, that instituted memorials of the Jews deliverance from Egypt should be no longer upheld in gospel times, as in Isai xvi. 14, 15. The Holy Ghost speaking there of gospel times, says, Therefore behold the days com• saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth that brought up th• children of Israel out of Egypt; but •he LORD liveth tha• brought up the children of Israel from the land of the […], and from all the lands whither he had driven h•m; and I will b•ing them again into their own land. They shall no more say, ⟨p. 248⟩The Lord liveth that brought, &c. i. e. at least they shall keep up no more any public memorials of it.
6. THE Holy Ghost hath implicitly told us, that instituted memorials of the Jews deliverance from Egypt should be no longer upheld in gospel times, as in Isai xvi. 14, 15. The Holy Ghost speaking there of gospel times, says, Therefore behold the days com saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth that brought up th children of Israel out of Egypt; but he LORD liveth tha brought up the children of Israel from the land of the , and from all the lands whither he had driven hm; and I will bing them again into their own land. They shall no more say,