San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-13
JONATHAN EDWARDS ON HE'LL
Quotations From the Sermons of
the Famous New England
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Divine.
New York Sun.
In view of the interest now taken
in things theological, these quotations
from Jonathan Edwards ser
may and interesting.
We do not have much hell.preaching
nowadays. Edwards sermons are
full of meat, and are good reading.
Huxley says of him that his demon
stration of the Necessarian thesis
has never been equaled in
power, and certainly has never
ueeb Iefu,ed." With the limp theolo-
go OF our time, which sacrifices logic
to sentiment, and hides in phraseology
what IL dares lot proclaim, Jonathan
Edwards would have had little SYM
patty. "He thoBght there was no
need that the strict philosophic truth
of his biographers. He'll, to him, was
a reality to be shown to sinners; not a
surmise 10 be explained away. There
is not a Presby terrain clergyman in
New York today who would venture
to present its terrors in pictures as
terrible as those in which he in.
dulged. For example,:
~ shall mention several good and
important ends, which will be OBJ
tanned by the eternal punishment of
the wicked.
1.-THE saints will be made more
eensible how great their salvation is
When they shall see how great the
misery Is from which God has saved
them and how great the difference he
hath made between their state and
the state of others who were by ma
ture, and perhaps by practice, no
more sinful and ill deserving than
they. it will give them q sense OF the
wonderfulness Of God's grace. ..
The views of the misery of the
damned will double the ardor of the
love and gratitude OF the saints in
heaven.
1.-THE sight of hell torments will ex-
cite the happiness of the saints for.
ever. 1t will give them q more lively
relish of their own happiness" Ser
mon XII
\ "When they see how miserable
others of their fellow creatures are;
when they shall see the smoke OF
their torment and the raging flames
of their burning, and shall near
their shrieks and cries, and con-
slider that they in the mean.
time are in the most blissful state
and shall surely be in it to all eterni-
ty, how they will rejoice! - How
joyfully they will sing to God and
the Lamb when they behold this"
(Sermon XIII.)
"Do but consider what it is to suffer
extreme torment forever and ever.
from one afie to another; in pain, in
wailing and lamentipg, grooming and
shriekiDg and crashing your teeth,
with your bodies, and every member
full of racking torture, without pos.
sibility Of moving God to pity by your
cries! How dismal will it be under
these racking torments to know that
you never-never shall be delivered
from them; have no hope; when after
you have worn out the age of the
sun, moon and stars without one
minutes ease, yet you shall have no
hope OF ever being delivered; but
the same grOans, the same shrieks,
the same dolefui cries are necessarily
to be made by you; and the smoke of
your torment shall ascend up forever
and ever Your bodies, which have
been burning and roasting all the
while in glowing furnaces, yet shall
no. nave Deen consumed, but will re-
maiu to roast through an eternity
yet."-[ Sermon XI.
Does the Rev. DIR. Van Dyke wan
sinners thus? Or was this the truth a
hundred years ago, and is it q false.
hood today? AL.