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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.
BY a strict observation of the sabbath, the face of religion is kept up in the world. If it were not for the sabbath, there would be but little public and visible appearance of serving, worshipping and reverencing ⟨p. 273⟩the supreme and invisible Being. The sabbath seems to have been appointed very much for this end, viz. to uphold the visibility of religion in public, or among professing societies of men; and by how much greater the strictness is with which the sabbath is observed, and with how much more solemnity the duties of it are observed among a people; by so much the greater is the manifestation among them, of respect to the divine Being.
THIS should be a powerful motive with us to the observation of the sabbath. It should be our study above all things to honour and glorify GOD. It should be the great thing with all that bear the name of christians, to honour their great GOD and king, and I hope is a great thing with many that hear me at this time.—If this be your inquiry, if this be your desire, to honour GOD; by this subject you are directed to one way whereby you may do much in that way, viz. by honouring the sabbath, and by showing a careful and strict observance of it.
THIS should be a powerful motive with us to the observation of the sabbath. It should be our study above all things to honor and glorify GOD. It should be the great thing with all that bear the name of christians, to honor their great GOD and king, and I hope is a great thing with many that hear me at this time.—If this be your inquiry, if this be your desire, to honor GOD; by this subject you are directed to one way whereby you may do much in that way, viz. by honoring the sabbath, and by showing a careful and strict observance of it.