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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.
IN like manner the word of GOD will prove true in threatening a flood of eternal wrath, to overwhelm all the wicked. You will believe it, when the event shall prove it, when it shall be too late to profit by the belief. The word of GOD will never fail; nothing is so sure as that; heaven and earth shall pass away, but the word of GOD shall not pass away. It is firmer than mountains of brass. At the end the vision will speak and not lie. The decree shall bring forth, and all wicked men shall know that GOD is the LORD, that he is a GOD of truth, and that they are fools who will not depend on his word. The wicked of the old world counted Noah a fool for depending so much on the word of GOD, as to put himself to all the fatigue and expense of building the ark; but the event showed that they themselves were the fools, and that he was wise.
IN like manner the word of GOD will prove true in threatning a flood of eternal wrath, to overwhelm all the wicked. You will believe it, when the event shall prove it, when it shall be too late to profit by the belief. The word of GOD will never fail; nothing is so sure as that; heaven and earth shall pass away, but the word of GOD shall not pass away. It is firmer than mountains of brass. At the end the vision will speak and not lie. The decree shall bring forth, and all wicked men shall know that GOD is the LORD, that he is a GOD of truth, and that they are fools who will not depend on his word. The wicked of the old world counted Noah a fool for depending so much on the word of GOD, as to put himself to all the fatigue and expense of building the ark; but the event showed that they themselves were the fools, and that he was wise.
2. CONSIDER that the spirit of GOD will not always strive with you; nor will his long suffering always wait upon you. SO GOD said concerning the inhabitants of the old world; Gen. vi. 3. My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. All this while GOD was striving with them. ⟨p. 31⟩