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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.
APPLICATION.
THIS shall be in an use of exhortation.
1. LET us be thankful for the institution of the christian sabbath. It is a thing wherein GOD hath ⟨p. 271⟩shown his mercy to us, and his care for our souls. He shows, that he, by his infinite wisdom, is contriving for our good, as CHRIST teaches us, that the sabbath was made for man; Mark ii. 27. The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. It was made for the profit and for the comfort of our souls.
THE sabbath is a day of rest: GOD hath appointed that we should, every seventh day, rest from all our worldly labours. Instead of that, he might have appointed the hardest labours for us to go through, some severe hardships for us to endure.—It is a day of outward, but especially of spiritual rest. It is a day appointed of GOD, that his people thereon may find rest unto their souls; that the souls of believers may rest and be refreshed in their Saviour.—It is a day of rejoicing; GOD made it to be a joyful day to the church;