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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.
SO GOD made the very beasts and birds of the old world to rebuke the madness of the men of that day. For they, even all sorts of them, fled to the ark, while the door was yet open; which the men of that day refused to do; GOD hereby thus signifying, that their folly was greater, than that of the very brute creatures.
SUCH folly and madness are you guilty of, who refuse to hearken to the warnings that are given you of the approaching flood of the wrath of GOD.
YOU have been once more warned to day, while the door of the ark yet stands open. You have as it ⟨p. 36⟩were once again heard the knocks of the hammer and axe in the building of the ark; to put you in mind, that a flood is approaching. Take heed, therefore that you do not still stop your ears, treat these warnings with a regardless heart, and still neglect the great work which you have to do, lest the flood of wrath suddenly come upon you, sweep you away and there be no remedy.
YOU have been once more warned to day, while the door of the ark yet stands open. You have as it ⟨p. 36⟩were once again heard the knocks of the hammer and ax in the building of the ark; to put you in mind, that a flood is approaching. Take heed, therefore that you do not still stop your ears, treat these warnings with a regardless heart, and still neglect the great work which you have to do, lest the flood of wrath suddenly come upon you, sweep you away and there be no remedy.