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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...

Christ. And even now, the love of God and joy in God is shed abroad in the heart as a prelibation of the promised, exalted, and eternal blessedness. And this brings me to observe, 3. The gospel [is] a joyful sound by reason of the good things it declares, not only as it contains news of happiness procured for us and offered to us, but also as therein these glorious things are exhibited to view, in the contemplation of which our highest happiness consists. By which means the gospel not only as it
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