SERMONS

VARIOUS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS,

THE

WORKS

OP

PRESIDENT EDWARDS,

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

A REPRINT OF THE WORCESTER EDITION,

WITH

VALUABLE ADDITIONS AND A COPIOUS GENERAL INDEX,

TO WHICH, FOR THE FIRST TIME, HAS BEEN ADDED, AT GREAT EXFENSI,

A COMPLETE INDEX OF SCRIPTURE TEXTS.

EIGHTH EDITION IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

CONTAININO

FORTY SERMONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY LEAVITT & ALLEN

379 BROADWAY.

1856.

E25./
1856

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

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CERMON I. Importance and Advantage of a thorough Knowledge of Divine

1

II. Men's Natural Blindness

, in the things of Religion

18

III. Men Naturally God's Enemies

36

✓ IV. Justification by Faith alone

64

V. The Wisdom of God, displayed in the way of Salvation

133

VI. God glorified in Man's Dependence

. 169

VII. The Excellency of Christ

179

VIII

. The Final Judgment; or the World judgeà' righteously by Jesus

Christ.

202

IX. The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners

. 226

X. The Future Punishment of the Wicked unavoidable and intolerable 254

XI. The Eternity of Hell Torments

266

XII. When the Wicked shall have filled up the measure of their Sin, wrath

will come upon them to the uttermost

280

XIII. The End of the Wicked contemplated by the Righteous; or, The

Torments of the Wicked in Hell, no occasion of grief to the Saints in

Heaven

287

XIV. Wicked Men useful in their Destruction only

. 300

XV. Sinners in the hands of an Angry God .

. 313

XVI. The vain Self-Flatteries of the Sinner

322

XVII. The Warnings of Scripture are in the best manner adapted to the

awakening and conversion of Sinners

330

XVIII. Unreasonableness of Indetermination in Religion

. 338

XIX. The Sin and Folly of depending on Future Time

347

XX. Unbelievers contemn the Glory and Excellency of Christ

361

XXI. The Manner in which the Salvation of the Soul is to be sought 368

XXII. Pressing into the Kingdom of God

. 381

XXIII. The Folly of looking

back in fleeing out of Sodom

. 403

XXIV. Ruth's Resolution

XXV. Great Guilt no obstacle to the pardon of the returning Sinner 422

XXVI. The Peace which Christ gives his true Followers

429

XXVII

. A Divine and Supernatural Light

, immediately imparted to the

Soul by the Spirit of God, shown to be both a Rational and Scriptural

Doctrine

439

:XXVIII. True Grace distinguished from the experience of Devils 451

XXIX. Hypocrites deficient in the duty of Prayer

474

XXX. The fearfulness which will hereafter surprise Sinners in Zion, repre-

sented and improved .

488

XXXI. Great care necessary, lest we live in some way of Sin

. 502

XXXII. A Warning to Professors or, TI Guilt of who

attend on the Ordinances of Divine Worshirt allow elves

in any known Wickedness

529

XXXII. God the best portion of

540

XXXIV. God's Sovereignty

548

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