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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.
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; Exod. xiv. 13. Then they enjoyed a joyful day of rest, a day of refreshment. Then they sang the song of Moses; and on that day was their sabbath of rest.
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 sabbathday.—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 compleat 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;