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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 resurrection of CHRIST from the dead, is in scripture represented by his coming up out of deep waters. So it is in CHRIST'S resurrection as represented by Jonah's coming out of the sea; Mat. xii. 40. It is also compared to a deliverance out of deep waters in Psalm lxix. 1, 2, 3, and ver. 14, 15.—These things are spoken of CHRIST, as is evident from this, that many things in this Psalm are in the new testament expressly applied to CHRIST, as you may see by comparing ver. 4. with Joh. xv. 25. and ver. 9. with Joh. ii. 17. and ver. 2. with Matth. xxvii. 34, 48. and Mark xv. 23. and Joh. xix. 29. and ver. 22. with Rom. xi. 9, 10. and ver. 25. with Acts i. 20.
THEREFORE it being so, th•• the Jewish sabbath was appointed on the day on which the pillar of cloud and fire rose out of the red sea, and on which Moses and the church, the mystical body of CHRIST came up out of the same sea, which is a type of the resurrection of CHRIST; it is a great confirmation that the christian sabbath should be kept on the day of the rising of the real body of CHRIST from the grave, which is the antitype. For surely the scriptures have taught us, that the type should give way to the antitype, and that the shadow should give way to the substance.