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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.
IF you improve not your opportunity before that time, you will cry in vain, Lord, Lord, open to us. Mat. x. 11, 12. and Luke xiii. 25, &c—While you shall stand at the door with your piteous cries, the flood of GOD'S wrath will come upon you, overwhelm you and you shall not escape. The tempest shall carry you away without mercy, and you shall be forever swallowed up and lost.
3. CONSIDER how mighty the billows of divine wrath will be, when they shall come. The waters of Noah's flood were very great. The deluge was vast; it was very deep; the billows reached as it were to the very heavens, being fifteen cubits above the highest mountains; and it was an ocean which had no shores; signifying the greatness of that wrath, which is coming on wicked men in another world, which will be like a mighty flood of waters, overwhelming them, and rising vastly high over their heads, with billows reaching to the very heavens. Those billows will be bigger, and higher, and heavier than mountains on their poor souls. The wrath of GOD will be an ocean without shores, as Noah's flood was: it will be misery that will have no end.
THE misery of the damned in hell can be better represented by nothing, than by a deluge of misery, a mighty deluge of wrath, which will be ten thousand times worse than a deluge of waters; for it will be a deluge of liquid fire, as in the scriptures it is called a lake of fire and brimstone.