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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.
So the temple is said to be an house called by GOD'S name; I Kings viii. 43. This house that is called by my name. And often else where. That is, ⟨p. 266⟩it was called GOD'S house, or the LORD'S house. This denoted that it was called an holy place, an house devoted to holy uses above all others.
So also we find that the first day of the week is called by GOD'S name, being called in scripture GOD'S day, or the Lord's day, which denotes that it is an holy day, a day appropriated to holy uses, above all others in the week.
13. THE tradition of the church from age to age, though it be no rule, yet may be a great confirmation of the truth in such a case as this is. We find, by all accounts that it hath been the universal custom of the christian church, in all ages, even from the age of the apostles, to keep the first day of the week. We read in the writings which remain of the first, second, and third centuries of the christians keeping the LORD'S day; and so in all succeeding ages: and there are no accounts that contradict them.—This day hath all along been kept by christians, in all countries throughout the world, and by almost all that have borne the name of christians, of all denominations, however different in their opinions as to other things.