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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
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2. BE exhorted to keep this day holy.—GOD hath given such evidences that this is his mind, that he will surely require it of you, if you do not strictly and conscientiously observe it. And if you do thus observe it, you may have this comfort in the reflection upon your conduct, that you have not been superstitious in it, but have done as GOD hath revealed it to be his mind and will in his word, that you should do; and that in so doing you are in the way of GOD'S acceptance and reward.
2. BE exhorted to keep this day holy.—GOD hath given such evidences that this is his mind, that he will surely require it of you, if you do not strictly and conscientiously observe it. And if you do thus observe it, you may have this comfort in the reflection upon your conduct, that you have not been superstious in it, but have done as GOD hath revealed it to be his mind and will in his word, that you should do; and that in so doing you are in the way of GOD'S acceptance and reward.
HERE let me lay before you the following motives to excite you to this duty.
(1.) BY a strict observation of the sabbath, the name of GOD is honoured, and that in such a way as is very acceptable to him. Isai. lviii. 13. If thou call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, and shalt honour him. GOD is honoured by it, as it is a visible manifestation of respect to GOD'S holy law, and a reverencing of that which has a peculiar relation to GOD himself, and that more in some respects than the observation of many other commands. A man may be just, and may be generous, and yet not so plainly show respect to the revealed mind and will of GOD, as many of the heathen have been so. But if a person, with evident strictness and care, observe the sabbath, it is a visible manifestation of a conscientious regard to GOD's declaration of his mind, and so is a visible honour done to his authority.