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NOW PUBLISHING FOR

S. & E. BUTLER,

(NORTHAMPTON)

THE LIFE AND CHARACTER

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THE LATE

REVEREND, LEARNED AND PIOUS

Mr. JONATHAN EDWARDS,

Late President of the College in New-Jerféy.

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Together with extracts from his Private Writings and Diary. To which is added, his farewell SERMON, preached at Northampton, on the people's public rejection of him as their MinisterAnd also seventeen select SERMONS, on various important subjects.

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"The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance." Psalm cxii. 6.

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THE

Connecticut Evangelical Magazine.

[PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS.]

VOL. V.]

AUGUST, 1804.

[No. 2.

A Missionary Sermon, delivered | cordingly gives his professed

at Hartford on the Evening of the Election Day, May 10, 1804, by the Rev. AMOS BASSET, of Hebron.

[Contin. from page 8.]

JOHN VIII. 56.

Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad.

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HROUGH the mercy of God, the same gospel that was preached to Abraham is brought nigh to us with increased brightness. "The light of the sun has become seven fold.” Now, in the time of our probation, is to be tried our love to Jehovah our Saviour. It is to be ascertained by the faith to which it gives operation-by a tender regard for the divine honor-by a delight in the promotion of religion-and by a prompt and persevering obedience to every plain intimation of the will of God.

1. If men have not faith in God, they neither love him nor please him. It is his fixed constitution also, that this faith must be proved by its fruits. He acVOL. V. No. 2.

friends in every age opportunities for the proof of their faithpromises to be believed, and excellent objects to be pursued.When a true believer hears the promise, that "all nations shall animated like one who hears the bow down before Jesus," he is distant shouts of victory. strong faith, like that of Abraham, need not lean upon sight; but, in a manner the most honorable to God, relies upon his faithfulness, when "he calleth things that be not as tho' they were." Rom. iv. 17.

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2. The sincerity of professed love to God, must be manifested by a tender regard to the divine honor and a delight in the promotion of religion. By a total indifference to these, men betray a want of "the spirit of adoption." Let every one therefore "prove his own self. Let the eye be turned to whole nations, not far distant, sunk in the darkness of heathenism and idolatry, ignorant and regardless of the God who made them, and tram. pling the divine honor in the dust.

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Ignorance of the feelings of God in relation to idolatry cannot be plead. It is the abominable thing which his soul abhoreth. Where then is our regard for the honor of Jehovah ? Destitute of such a regard shall we presume to address him by the endearing title of "Our Father who art in Heaven?" Well may he reply to us, as he did to hypocrites in former times, “IfI be a father where is mine honor?" Mal, i. 6.

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ferred to ought never to have a place.

In addition to the heathen, there are many others within our knowledge, particularly our brethren in the new settlements, whose situation claims from the friends of Chirst a compassion like that which he felt, when he "beheld the multitudes as sheep without a shepherd." How many are there, of whom it may truly be said, that they are "without God in the world;" living in a total neglect of their maker and his reasonable service. God is continually dishonored, and they are walking in the road to death.

Have any professors of religion been inattentive to the state of the heathen? Let such read a description of it in the first chapter to the Romans. Read Professors of the gospel canalso in the 3d chapter, from ver. not surely be ignorant of the 9th to ver. 19th. Read Gal. v. appropriate and only means of 19—21, and Eph. ii. 1, 11, 12. remedying these evils. PhiloThe descriptions in these passa- sophers, both atheists and idolages do at least include their ters, have attempted in vain for state. Accordingly, the com- hundreds of years to reform mand is expressly given, "Go mankind. The cross of Christ, teach all nations." In opposi- made known in the gospel, is the tion to all this light, will any at-only mean of "pulling down tempt to maintain that the strong holds, casting down imaheathen stand in no need of the ginations, and every high thing gospel-that they stand as good that exalteth itself against the a chance for salvation without knowledge of God." The honthe gospel as with it-impeach- or of God is inseparably coning the wisdom of God, and en- nected with the prevalence of deavoring to persuade us that no the gospel. God has "magniexcrtions ought to be made to fied his word above all his send them the gospel? "Thisname" Psalm cxxxviii. 2. In persuasion" brethren "cometh proportion as the gospel spreads not of him who calleth us.". and prevails God is honored, his The carnal Jews were grieved, character is displayed, his perbut Abraham rejoiced, that the fections are brought forth to benefits of the Messiah's king-view, and "in the day of his dom might and should be ex-power," men are brought to tended to all nations... "know, love and serve him." That in particular situations, Then “ one shall say I am the and under certain circumstances LORD's; another shall call himthere may be reasons for send-self by the name of Jacob; and ing religious instruction to oth- another shall subscribe with ers rather than to the heathen, his hand unto the LORD. All will not be denied. But, among that see them shall acknowledge these reasons, the one just re-them, that they are the seed

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