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The third volume contains a series of Edwards’ sermons on Jesus’ parable of the Net, as found in Matthew 13. Edwards preached these sermons in 1746, after the major phase of the Great Awakening had passed in New England. During these months Edwards was completing and publishing A Treatise concerning Religious Affections, his masterful statement on the signs of true grace. This volume is...

conversion of sinners, or their visible or seeming conversion. ’Tis that by which men are gathered into the visible kingdom of Jesus Christ. But ’tis evident that all that were thus seemingly converted did not prove good, when those that had the care of ’em came to sit down and examine the quality of the fish that were caught; but many of ’em were good for nothing, and as such were cast away. So that this observation, that there are many that seem to be converted, {that are not so really}, is justly
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