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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.
OF old GOD blessed the seventh day, or appointed it to be a day whereon especially he would bestow blessings on his people, as an expression of his own joyful remembrance of that day, and of the test and refreshment which he had on it. Exod. xxxi. 16, 17. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath.—For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh he rested and was refreshed. As princes give gifts on their birth days, on their marriage days, and the like; so GOD was wont to dispense spiritual gifts on the seventh day.
BUT how much more reason has CHRIST to bless the day of his resurrection, and to delight to honour it, and to confer his grace and blessed gifts on his people, on this day. It was a day whereon CHRIST rested and was refreshed in a literal sense. It was a day of great refreshment and joy to CHRIST, being the day of his deliverance from the chains of death, the day of his finishing that great and difficult work of redemption, which had been upon his heart from all eternity; the day of his justification by the Father; the day of the beginning of his exaltation, and of the fulfilment of the promises of the Father; the day when he had eternal life, which he had purchased, put into his hands.—On this day CHRIST doth indeed delight to distribute gifts, and blessings, and joy, and happiness, and will delight to do the same to the end of the world.
BUT how much more reason has CHRIST to bless the day of his resurrection, and to delight to honor it, and to confer his grace and blessed gifts on his people, on this day. It was a day whereon CHRIST rested and was refreshed in a literal sense. It was a day of great refreshment and joy to CHRIST, being the day of his deliverance from the chains of death, the day of his finishing that great and difficult work of redemption, which had been upon his heart from all eternity; the day of his justification by the Father; the day of the beginning of his exaltation, and of the fulfilment of the promises of the Father; the day when he had eternal life, which he had purchased, put into his hands.—On this day CHRIST doth indeed delight to distribute gifts, and blessings, and joy, and happiness, and will delight to do the same to the end of the world.