CONTENTS NTRODUCTION. SERMONS: >I. GOD GLORIFIED IN MAN'S DEPENDENCE (1731) ♫ II. THE REALITY OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT (1733). IV. THE MANY MANSIONS (1737) V. SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF an Angry God (1741) PAGE vii 1 21 45 64 78 98 118 155 SELECTED SERMONS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS I GOD GLORIFIED IN MAN'S DEPENDENCE 1 COR. i. 29-31.- That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. THOSE Christians to whom the apostle directed this epistle dwelt in a part of the world where human wisdom was in great repute; as the apostle observes in the 22d verse of this chapter, "The Greeks seek after wisdom." Corinth was not far from Athens, that had been for many ages the most famous seat of philosophy and learning in the world. The apostle therefore observes to them how that God, by the gospel, destroyed and brought to nought their human wisdom. The learned Grecians and their great philosophers by all their wisdom did not know God: they were not able to find out the truth in divine things. But after they had done their utmost to no effect, it pleased God at length to reveal himself by the gospel, which they accounted foolishness. He "chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and the base things of the world, and things that are despised, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are." And the apostle informs them why he thus B |