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Works of Jonathan Edwards
This section contains an archive of sermons and papers by Jonathan
Edwards (1703-1758), a colonial American Congregational
preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. He is
known as one of the greatest and most profound of American
theologians and revivalists. His work is very broad in scope, but he
is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology, the
metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage.
His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," emphasized
the just wrath of God against sin and contrasted it with the
provision of God for salvation; the intensity of his preaching
sometimes resulted in members of the audience fainting, swooning,
and other more obtrusive reactions. The swooning and other behaviors
in his audience caught him up in a controversy over "bodily effects"
of the Holy Spirit's presence.
Absent from the Body
THE apostle in this place is giving a reason why he went on with so
much boldness and immovable steadfastness, through such labors,
sufferings, and dangers of his life, in the service of his Lord; for
which his enemies, the false teachers among the Corinthians,
sometimes reproached him as being beside himself, and driven on by a
kind of madness.
Christian Knowledge
Paul he apostle makes a complaint against the Christian Hebrews, for
their want of such proficiency in the knowledge of the doctrines and
mysteries of religion, as might have been expected of them. The
apostle complains, that they had not made that progress in their
acquaintance with the things taught in the oracles of God, which
they ought to have made.
Christ's Agony
OUR Lord Jesus Christ, in his original nature, was infinitely above
all suffering, for he was "God over all, blessed for evermore;" but,
when he became man, he was not only capable of suffering, but
partook of that nature that is remarkably feeble and exposed to
suffering.
GOD Glorified in Man's Dependence
The learned Grecians, and their great philosophers, by all their
wisdom did not know God, they were not able to find out the truth in
divine things. But, after they had done their utmost to no effect,
it pleased God at length to reveal himself by the gospel, which they
accounted foolishness.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
On July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards preached what is considered by many, to be the best sermon ever preached by any mortal man since Paul the Apostle. It is credited with lighting a bonfire of revival and
reformation that swept society during the great awakening.
The Importance and Advantage of a
Thorough Knowledge of Divine Truth
"For when, for the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that
one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of
God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong
meat." (Hebrews 5:12) These words are a complaint, which the apostle
makes of a certain defect in the Christian Hebrews, to whom he
wrote.
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