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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.
PREFACE.
IT is now about a year and an half, since I was desired by the General Association of Ministers in this State to publish the following sermons. As the publication has been so long delayed, I look upon myself bound to render the reasons of this delay to the public in general, to the association and subscribers in particular.—At the time that the desire of the association was made known to me, the state of our currency was such, that I could not immediately determine, in what manner it was best to set on foot the subscription. This being at length determined, the papers could not be circulated, subscriptions procured and returned in a shorter time than several months. After this a further delay was occasioned by the difficulty of procuring paper. However this difficulty was also at last surmounted, and the printer had begun the work, when on the fifth of July last, the British troops made their descent on New-Haven. This event entirely broke up the work; and as we have been constantly exposed to another visit from the enemy, the printer did not judge it prudent to resume it. Things being so circumstanced, I was obliged to seek out for another printer; and those at Hartford being most conveniently situated, I app••ed to them. They were willing to undertake the business, but having work already in hand which would necessarily consume several months, they could not begin this, till […] present time; but will now enter on it immediately, […] dispatch it as fast as possible.—By this peculiar series ⟨p. iv⟩of event•, the publication of these sermons, hath been thus long deferred.
IT is now about a year and an half, since I was desired by the General Association of Ministers in this State to publish the following sermons. As the publication has been so long delayed, I look upon myself bound to render the reasons of this delay to the public in general, to the association and subscribers in particular.—At the time that the desire of the association was made known to me, the state of our currency was such, that I could not immediately determine, in what manner it was best to set on foot the subscription. This being at length determined, the papers could not be circulated, subscriptions procured and returned in a shorter time than several months. After this a further delay was occasioned by the difficulty of procuring paper. However this difficulty was also at last surmounted, and the printer had begun the work, when on the fifth of July last, the British troops made their descent on New-Haven. This event entirely broke up the work; and as we have been constantly exposed to another visit from the enemy, the printer did not judge it prudent to resume it. Things being so circumstanced, I was obliged to seek out for another printer; and those at Hartford being most conveniently situated, I apped to them. They were willing to undertake the business, but having work already in hand which would necessarily consume several months, they could not begin this, till present time; but will now enter on it immediately, dispatch it as fast as possible.—By this peculiar series