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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.
BESIDES, the words in the fourth commandment, which speak of the deliverance out of Egypt, can be of no significancy unto us, unless they are to be interpreted of the gospel redemption: but the words of the decalogue are spoken to all nations and ages. Therefore, as the words were spoken to the Jews they referred to the type or shadow; as they are spoken to us they are to be interpreted of the antitype and substance. For the Egypt from which we under the gospel are redeemed, is the spiritual Egypt; the house of bondage from which we are redeemed, is a state of spiritual bondage.—Therefore the words as spoken to us, are to be thus interpreted, Remember, thou wast a servant to sin and satan, and the LORD thy GOD delivered thee from this bondage with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy GOD commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
As the words in the preface to the ten commandments, about the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt, are interpreted in our catechism, and as they have respect to us, must be interpreted of our spiritual redemption, so by an exact identity of reason, must these words in Deuteronomy, annexed to the fourth command be interpreted of the same gospel redemption.
THE Jewish sabbath was kept on the day that the children of Israel came up out of the red sea. For, we are told in Deut. v. 15. That this holy rest of the sabbath was appointed in commemoration of their coming up out of Egypt. But the day of their going through the red sea was the day of their coming up out of Egypt; for till then they were in the land of Egypt. The red sea was the boundary of the land of Egypt.—The scripture itself tells us that ⟨p. 250⟩•hat day on which they song the song of Moses, was the day of their coming up out of the land of Egypt;