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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.
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 Job xxvii. 20. Terrors take hold on him as waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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 surprized 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 surprize of the wicked of the old world in the night, probably that alludes in Job xxvii. 20. Terrours take hold on him as waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
So destruction is wont to come on wicked men, who hear many warnings of approaching destruction, and yet will not be influenced by them. For he that is often reproved, and hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.