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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.
EVEN after the ark was finished, which seems to have been but little before the flood came, still there was an opportunity; the door of the ark stood open for some time. After the ark was finished there was sometime, during which Noah was employed in laying up stores in the ark Even then it was not too late; the door of the ark yet stood open.—About a week before the flood came, Noah was commanded to begin to gather in the beasts and birds. During this last week still the door of the ark stood open.—But on the very day that the flood began to come, while the rain was yet withheld, Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, went into the ark, and we are told, Gen. vii. 16. That GOD shut him in. Then the day of GOD'S patience was past; the door of the ark was shut; GOD himself, who shuts and no man opens, shut the door. Then all hope of their escaping the flood was past. Then, after that, it was too late to repent that they had not hearkened to Noah's warnings, and had not entered into the ark, while the door stood open.
AFTER Noah and his family had entered into the ark, and GOD had shut them in, after the windows of heaven were opened, and they saw how the waters were poured down out of heaven, we may suppose that then many of those who were near, come running to the […] of the ark, knocking at the door, and crying most piteously for entrance. But it was too ⟨p. 32⟩late; GOD himself had shut the door, and Noah had no licence, and probably no power, to open it. We may suppose, they stood knocking and calling Open to us, Open to us; O let us in; we beg that we may be let in. And probably some of them pleaded old acquaintance with Noah; that they had always been his neighbours, and had even helped him to build the ark. But all was in vain. There they flood, till the waters of the flood came, without mercy swept them away from the door of the ark, and swallowed them up.
AFTER Noah and his family had entered into the ark, and GOD had shut them in, after the windows of heaven were opened, and they saw how the waters were poured down out of heaven, we may suppose that then many of those who were near, come running to the of the ark, knocking at the door, and crying most piteously for entrance. But it was too