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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.
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.
AT the end of the world, all the wicked shall literally be swallowed up in a vast deluge of fire, which shall be as great and as mighty, as Noah's deluge of water. See 2 Pet. iii. 5. 6. 7.—After that the wicked will have mighty billows of fire and brimstone eternally rolling over their poor souls, and their miserable, tormented bodies. Those billows will be bigger than the mountains, or they may be called vast liquid mountains of fire and brimstone. And when one billow shall have gone over their heads, another shall follow, and so one shall follow another, without intermission, giving them no rest day nor night to all eternity.
4. THIS flood of wrath will probably come upon ⟨p. 34⟩you suddenly, when you shall think little of it, and it shall seem far from you. So the flood came upon the old world; see Mat. xxiv. 36. &c.—Probably many of them were surprised in the night by the waters busting suddenly in at their doors, or under the foundations of their houses, coming in upon them in their beds. For when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the waters, as was observed before, burst forth in mighty torrents, as if they had issued out of the womb. To such a sudden surprise of the wicked of the old world in the night, probably that alludes in