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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.
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 ⟨p. 253⟩of creation, did not follow his own example, if I may so speak; he did not rest on the same day, but remained imprisoned in the grave on that day, and took another day to rest in.
THE sabbath was a day of rejoicing; for it was kept in commemoration of GOD'S glorious and gracious works of creation and the redemption out of Egypt. Therefore we are directed to call the sabbath a delight. But it is not a proper day for the church, CHRIST'S spouse to rejoice, when CHRIST the bridegroom lies buried in the grave, as CHRIST says, Mat. ix. 15. That the children of the bride chamber cannot mourn, while the bridegroom is with them. But the time will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them; then shall they mourn.—While CHRIST was holden under the chains of death; then the bridegroom was taken from them; then it was a proper time for the spouse to mourn and not rejoice. But when CHRIST rose again, then it was a day of joy, because we are begotten again to a living hope, by the resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead.
10. CHRIST hath evidently, on purpose and design, peculiarly honoured the first day of the week, the day on which he rose from the dead, by taking this day of the week from time to time to appear to the apostles, and by taking this day to pour out the Holy Ghost on the apostles, which we read of in the second chapter of Acts: for this was on the first day of the week, being on Pentecost, which was on the first day of the week, as you may see by