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The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon
The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon. : To which is added a farewell sermon; by Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Delivered at Northampton, June 22d, 1750. After the people's public rejection of him as their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church.
Northampton: printed by Daniel Wright & Co for Simeon Butler, 1797
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If you refuse thus to receive Christ, how just is it that Christ should refuse to receive you? How reasonable are Christ's ⟨p. 51⟩terms, who offers to save all those that willingly, or with a good will, accept of him for their Saviour! Who can rationally expect that Christ should force himself upon any man to be his Saviour? Or what can be looked for more reasonable, than that all that would be saved by Christ, should heartily and freely entertain him? And surely it would be very dishonourable for Christ to offer himself upon lower terms.
But I would now proceed,
2. To show that it is really so, that you are not willing to have Christ for a Saviour. To convince you of it, consider,
2. To shew that it is really so, that you are not willing to have Christ for a Saviour. To convince you of it, consider,