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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.
8. I ARGUE the same thing from Psalm cxviii. 22, 23, 24. There we are taught, that the day of CHRIST'S resurrection is to be celebrated with holy joy by the church. The stone which the builders refused, is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the LORD hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. The stone spoken of is CHRIST; he was refused and rejected by the builders, especially when he was put to death. That making of him the head of the corner spoken of, which is the LORD'S doing, and so marvellous in our eyes, is CHRIST'S exaltation, which began with his resurrection. While CHRIST lay in the grave, be lay as a stone cast away by the builders. But when GOD raised him from the dead, then he became the head of the corner. Thus it is evident the apostle interprets it, Acts iv. 10, 11. Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of JESUS of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom GOD raised from the dead, &c.—This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
AND the day on which this was done, we are here taught, that GOD hath made to be the day of the rejoicing of the church.
9. THE abolition of the Jewish sabbath seems to be intimated by this, that CHRIST, the LORD of the sabbath, lay buried on that day. CHRIST, the author of the world, was the author of that work of creation, of which the Jewish sabbath was the memorial. It was he that worked six days and rested the seventh day from all his works, and was refreshed. Yet he was holden in the chains of death on that day.—GOD who created the world, now in his second work