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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.
IT is proper on this day, not only especially to promote the exercise of religion in ourselves; but also in others; to be assisting them, and endeavouring to promote their spiritual good, by religious conversation and conference.—Especially those who have the care of others, ought on this day to endeavour to promote their spiritual good: heads of families should be instructing and counselling their children, and quickening them in the ways of religion, and should ⟨p. 281⟩see to it that the sabbath be strictly kept in their houses. A peculiar blessing may be expected upon those families, where there is due care taken, that the sabbath be strictly and devoutly observed.
IT is proper on this day, not only especially to promote the exercise of religion in ourselves; but also in others; to be assisting them, and endeavoring to promote their spiritual good, by religious conversation and conference.—Especially those who have the care of others, ought on this day to endeavour to promote their spiritual good: heads of families should be instructing and counselling their children, and quickening them in the ways of religion, and should ⟨p. 281⟩see to it that the sabbath be strictly kept in their houses. A peculiar blessing may be expected upon those families, where there is due care taken, that the sabbath be strictly and devoutly observed.
4. WE are on this day especially to meditate upon and celebrate the work of redemption. We are with special joy to remember the resurrection of CHRIST; because that was the finishing of the work of redemption, and this is the day whereon Christ rested and was refreshed, after he had endured those extreme labours, which he endured for our perishing souls. This was the day of the gladness of CHRIST'S heart; it was the day of his deliverance from the chains of death, and also of our deliverance: for we are delivered in him who is our head. He, as it were, rose with his elect. He is the first fruits; those that are CHRIST'S will follow. CHRIST, when he rose, was justified as a public person, and we are justified in him. This is the day of our deliverance out of Egypt.