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This wide-ranging volume covers the final fifteen of the thirty-three years that Jonathan Edwards preached and includes some of his greatest sermons—including his “Farewell Sermons” to his Northampton congregation. The period is defined by Edwards’ inventive strategies to improvise during the delivery of his sermons. Considering dependence on the written text in the pulpit to be a serious...

be an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” And hence they that dwell in Christ have that promise fulfilled to them which we have in the eighteenth verse of the same chapter, “My people shall dwell in peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and quiet resting places.” And the true followers of Christ have not only ground of peace and rest of soul, by reason of their safety from evil, but on
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