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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.
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; Hosea ii. 15. And she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt; referring plainly to that triumphant song which Moses and the children of Israel sang, when they came up out of the red sea.
THE scripture tells us, that GOD appointed the Jewish sabbath in commemoration of the deliverance of the children of Israel from their task masters, the Egyptians, and of their rest from their hard bondage and slavery under them; Deut. v. 14, 15. That thy man servant and maid servant may rest as well as thou. 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 arm: therefore the LORD thy GOD commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.—But the day that the children of Israel were delivered from their task-masters and had rest from them, was the day when the children of Israel came up out of the red sea. They had no rest from them till then. For though they were before come forth on their journey to go out of the land of Egypt; yet they were pursued by the Egyptians, and were exceedingly perplexed and distressed. But on the morning that they came up out of the red sea, they had complete and final deliverance; then they had full rest from their task-masters. Then GOD said to them, The Egyptians which ye have seen this day ye shall see no more for ever;