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Annotation of 2 Nephi 9 – preliminary
2 Nephi 9 is a good example because it shows that a high percentage of its language is also KJV language. Few of the KJV words/phrases are not also found in Edwards, including the so-called "blended" passages.
The blue Book of Mormon words/phrases in the annotation are nonbiblical and also not found in Edwards. In some cases noted below, the nonbiblical language is close to Edwards (e.g., plural instead of singular). There are several examples in the Book of Mormon of paraphrased or misquoted passages from the KJV that are identical to paraphrased or misquoted KJV passages in Edwards' works.
The red words/phrases are nonbiblical Book of Mormon wording that are also found in Edwards' works as available on the Yale database, which includes most but not all of the 1808 edition, as well as material not included in the 1808 edition.
Purple are nonbiblical Book of Mormon words/phrases similar to Edwards.
Naturally, Edwards is not the only person who ever used this nonbiblical Book of Mormon terminology. English is a common language or we couldn't understand one another. But the ready availability of Edwards' works in Palmyra during Joseph's youth indicates that Edwards was a possible source for Joseph's vocabulary that he used when translating the plates.
Bold = KJV
Blue = nonbiblical BofM/D&C/PGP w/o JE
Red = nonbiblical BofM/D&C/PGP and JE
Purple = nonbiblical BofM/D&C/PGP similar to JE
Chapter 9
Jacob explains that the Jews will be gathered in all their lands of promise—The Atonement ransoms man from the Fall—The bodies of the dead will come forth from the grave, and their spirits from hell and from paradise—They will be judged—The Atonement saves from death, hell, the devil, and endless torment—The righteous are to be saved in the kingdom of God—Penalties for sins are set forth—The Holy One of Israel is the keeper of the gate. About 559–545 B.C.
1 And now, my beloved brethren[1], I have read these things that ye might know concerning[2] the covenants of[3] the Lord[4]that he has covenanted[5] with all the house of Israel[6]—
2 That he has spoken unto the Jews, by the mouth of[7] his holy prophets[8], even from the beginning down[9], from generation to generation[10], until the time comes[11] that they shall be restored[12] to the true church[13] and fold of God[14]; when they shall be gathered home[15] to the lands of[16] their inheritance[17], and shall be established[18] in all their lands of promise[19].
3 Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these things that ye may rejoice[20], and lift up your heads[21] forever, because of the blessings[22] which the Lord God shall bestow[23] upon your children.
4 For I know that ye have searched[24] much[25], many of you[26], to know of things to come[27]; wherefore I know that ye know that our flesh must[28] waste away[29] and die; nevertheless, in our bodies[30] we shall see God.
5 Yea, I know that ye know that in the body[31] he shall show himself[32] unto those at Jerusalem, from whence we came; for it is expedient[33] that it should be among them; for it behooveth[34] the great Creator[35] that he suffereth himself[36] to become subject[37] unto man in the flesh[38], and die for all[39] men[40], that all men might become subject unto him.
6 For as death hath passed upon[41] all men, to fulfil the merciful[42] plan[43] of the great Creator, there must needs be[44] a power of resurrection[45], and the resurrection must needs come[46] unto man by reason of[47] the fall; and the fall came by reason of transgression; and because man became fallen[48] they were cut off from the presence of the Lord[49].
7 Wherefore, it must needs be[50] an infinite[51] atonement[52]—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put[53] on incorruption[54]. Wherefore, the first judgment[55] which came upon man[56] must needs have[57] remained to an endless duration[58]. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot[59] and to crumble[60] to its mother earth[61], to rise no more[62].
8 O the wisdom of God[63], his mercy and grace[64]! For behold, if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become[65] subject to[66] that angel who fell[67] from before the presence[68] of the Eternal God[69], and became the devil[70], to rise no more.
9 And our spirits[71] must have become like unto him, and we become devils, angels to a devil[72], to be shut out from[73] the presence[74] of our God, and to remain with the father of lies[75], in misery[76], like unto himself[77]; yea, to that being who beguiled[78] our first parents[79], who transformeth himself nigh unto[80] an angel of light[81], and stirreth up the children of men[82] unto secret[83] combinations[84] of murder[85] and all manner of[86] secret works[87] of darkness[88].
10 O how great[89] the goodness of[90] our God, who prepareth a way for our escape[91] from the grasp of[92] this awful[93] monster[94]; yea, that monster, death and hell[95], which I call the death of the body[96], and also the death of the spirit[97].
11 And because of the way of deliverance[98] of our God, the Holy One of Israel[99], this death[100], of which I have spoken, which is the temporal[101], shall deliver up[102] its dead; which death is the grave[103].
12 And this death of which I have spoken, which is the spiritual death[104], shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death is hell; wherefore, death and hell must[105] deliver up their dead, and hell must deliver up its captive spirits[106], and the grave must[107] deliver up its captive bodies[108], and the bodies and the spirits of men[109] will be restored[110] one to the other[111]; and it is by the power of the resurrection[112] of the Holy One of Israel.
13 O how great the plan of our God! For on the other hand[113], the paradise of God[114] must deliver up the spirits[115] of the righteous[116], and the grave[117] deliver up the body[118] of the righteous; and the spirit and the body[119] is restored to itself[120] again, and all men become incorruptible[121], and immortal[122], and they are living souls[123], having a perfect knowledge[124] like unto us in the flesh, save it be that our knowledge[125] shall be perfect[126].
14 Wherefore, we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt[127], and our uncleanness[128], and our nakedness; and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment[129], and their righteousness, being clothed with purity[130], yea, even with the robe of righteousness[131].
15 And it shall come to pass that when all men shall have passed[132] from this first death[133] unto life, insomuch as they have become immortal, they must appear[134] before the judgment-seat[135] of the Holy One of Israel; and then cometh the judgment, and then must they be judged according[136] to the holy judgment[137] of God.
16 And assuredly[138], as the Lord liveth, for the Lord God hath spoken it, and it is his eternal word[139], which cannot pass away[140], that they who are righteous[141] shall be righteous still[142], and they who are filthy[143] shall be filthy still[144]; wherefore, they who are filthy are the devil and his angels[145]; and they shall go away into everlasting fire[146], prepared for them; and their torment[147] is as a lake of fire and brimstone[148], whose flame ascendeth[149] up forever and ever and has no end[150].
17 O the greatness and the justice of our God[151]! For he executeth[152] all his words, and they have gone forth out of[153] his mouth, and his law must be fulfilled[154].
18 But, behold, the righteous, the saints of the Holy One of Israel, they who have believed in the Holy One of Israel, they who have endured[155] the crosses[156] of the world, and despised the shame[157] of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God[158], which was prepared for them[159] from the foundation of the world[160], and their joy shall be[161] full forever[162].
19 O the greatness of the mercy of[163] our God, the Holy One of Israel! For he delivereth his saints[164] from that awful monster the devil, and death, and hell, and that lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment[165].
20 O how great the holiness of our God[166]! For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything[167] save he knows it[168].
21 And he cometh into the world that he may save all men[169] if they will hearken unto his voice; for behold, he suffereth the pains of[170] all men, yea, the pains of every living creature[171], both men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam[172].
22 And he suffereth this that the resurrection might pass[173] upon all men, that all might stand[174] before him at the great and judgment day[175].
23 And he commandeth all men that they must repent, and be baptized in his name, having perfect faith[176] in the Holy One of Israel, or they cannot be saved[177] in the kingdom of God[178].
24 And if they will not repent[179] and believe in his name[180], and be baptized in his name, and endure to the end[181], they must be damned[182]; for the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has spoken it.
25 Wherefore, he has given a law; and where there is no law[183] given there is no punishment[184]; and where there is no punishment there is no condemnation[185]; and where there is no condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim[186] upon them, because of the atonement[187]; for they are delivered by the power of him.
26 For the atonement satisfieth the demands of[188] his justice[189] upon all those who have not the law given to them, that they are delivered[190] from that awful monster, death and hell, and the devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment; and they are restored to[191] that God who gave them breath[192], which is the Holy One of Israel.
27 But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God[193], like unto us[194], and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation[195], for awful is his state[196]!
28 O that cunning[197] plan[198] of the evil one[199]! O the vainness[200], and the frailties[201], and the foolishness[202] of men! When they are learned they think[203] they are wise, and they hearken not[204] unto the counsel of God[205], for they set it aside[206], supposing[207] they know of themselves[208], wherefore, their wisdom[209] is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish[210].
29 But to be learned[211] is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God[212].
30 But wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things of the world[213]. For because they are rich they despise the poor[214], and they persecute the meek[215], and their hearts are upon their treasures[216]; wherefore, their treasure[217] is their god. And behold, their treasure shall perish with them also.
31 And wo unto the deaf that will not hear[218]; for they shall perish.
32 Wo unto the blind that will not see[219]; for they shall perish also.
33 Wo unto the uncircumcised of heart[220], for a knowledge of[221] their iniquities shall smite them at the last day.
34 Wo unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down[222] to hell.
35 Wo unto the murderer who deliberately[223] killeth, for he shall die.
36 Wo unto them who commit whoredoms[224], for they shall be thrust down to hell.
37 Yea, wo unto those that worship idols[225], for the devil of all devils[226] delighteth in them.
38 And, in fine[227], wo unto all those who die in their sins[228]; for they shall return to God[229], and behold his face[230], and remain in their sins[231].
39 O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness[232] in transgressing against[233] that Holy God[234], and also the awfulness of yielding[235] to the enticings[236] of that cunning one[237]. Remember, to be carnally-minded is death[238], and to be spiritually-minded is[239] life eternal[240].
40 O, my beloved brethren, give ear to[241] my words. Remember the greatness[242] of the Holy One of Israel. Do not say[243] that I have spoken hard things[244] against you[245]; for if ye do, ye will revile[246] against the truth[247]; for I have spoken the words of your Maker[248]. I know that the words of truth[249] are hard against[250] all uncleanness; but the righteous fear them not[251], for they love the truth[252] and are not shaken[253].
41 O then, my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous[254]. Behold, the way for man[255] is narrow[256], but it lieth in a straight course[257] before him, and the keeper of[258] the gate[259] is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth[260] no servant there; and there is none other way[261] save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived[262], for the Lord God is his name.
42 And whoso knocketh, to him will[263] he open; and the wise[264], and the learned[265], and they that are rich[266], who are puffed up[267] because of their learning[268], and their wisdom, and their riches—yea, they are they[269] whom he despiseth; and save they shall[270] cast these things away[271], and consider themselves[272] fools[273] before God, and come down in the depths of[274] humility[275], he will not open unto them.
43 But the things of the wise and the prudent[276] shall be hid from them[277] forever—yea, that happiness[278] which is prepared for the saints[279].
44 O, my beloved brethren, remember my words[280]. Behold, I take off[281] my garments[282], and I shake[283] them before you; I pray the God of my salvation[284] that he view me with his all-searching[285] eye; wherefore, ye shall know at the last day[286], when all men[287] shall be judged[288] of their works[289], that the God of Israel did witness that I shook[290] your iniquities from my soul[291], and that I stand with brightness[292] before him, and am rid[293] of your blood.
45 O, my beloved brethren, turn away from[294] your sins; shake off[295] the chains of him[296] that would bind you fast[297]; come unto that God who is the rock of[298] your salvation.
46 Prepare your souls[299] for that glorious day[300] when justice shall be[301] administered[302] unto the righteous, even the day of judgment[303], that ye may not shrink[304] with awful fear; that ye may[305] not remember[306] your awful guilt in perfectness[307], and be constrained[308] to exclaim[309]: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God Almighty—but I know my guilt[310]; I transgressed thy law, and my transgressions[311] are mine; and the devil hath obtained me[312], that I am a prey to[313] his awful misery[314].
47 But behold, my brethren, is it expedient[315] that I should awake you[316] to an awful reality[317] of these things? Would I harrow[318] up your souls if your minds[319] were pure[320]? Would I be plain unto you according to the plainness[321] of the truth if ye were freed from sin[322]?
48 Behold, if ye were holy I would speak[323] unto you of holiness; but as ye are not holy[324], and ye look upon me[325] as a teacher[326], it must needs be expedient[327] that I teach you the consequences of sin[328].
49 Behold, my soul abhorreth[329] sin, and my heart delighteth in righteousness[330]; and I will praise the holy name of my God.
50 Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price.[331]
51 Wherefore, do not spend[332] money for that which is of[333] no worth[334], nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy[335]. Hearken diligently[336] unto me, and remember the words[337] which I have spoken; and come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast[338] upon that which perisheth not, neither can be corrupted[339], and let your soul[340] delight in fatness[341].
52 Behold, my beloved brethren, remember the words of your God; pray unto him continually[342] by day[343], and give thanks unto his holy name[344] by night. Let your hearts rejoice[345].
53 And behold how great the covenants of the Lord, and how great his condescensions[346] unto the children of men; and because of[347] his greatness[348], and his grace and mercy[349], he has promised unto us that our seed[350] shall not utterly[351] be destroyed, according to the flesh[352], but that he would preserve them[353]; and in future generations[354] they shall become a righteous branch[355] unto the house of Israel.
54 And now, my brethren, I would speak unto you more; but on the morrow[356] I will declare unto you the remainder of my words. Amen.
(2 Nephi 9–9:54)
[1] NT (4) BM (60) JE (5)
[2] BM (20) DC (2) JE (5) JE : « thus much we know concerning it, that there is no event, past, present, or to come, that God is ever uncertain of”
[3] NT (1) BM (14) DC (1) PGP (1) JE (3)
[4] “the covenants of the Lord” BM (10) PGP (1)
[5] BM (91) DC (1)
[6] OT (117) NT (5) BM (91) DC (5) JE (100)
[7] OT (7) NT (5) BM (16) DC (10) PGP (1) JE (7)
[8] NT (2) BM (2) JE (3) NT : « As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, (Luke 1:70)
[9] BM (1)
[10] OT (10) NT (1) BM (14) DC (17) JE (60)
[11] BM (1)
[12] BM (14) JE (5) JE: “through God's abundant grace, and that all things may be restored by Christ, in due time the external and literal Israel shall be restored by him” “therefore they are still kept a distinct nation, being still reserved for distinguishing mercy in the latter day, when they shall be restored to the church of God.”
[13] BM (3) DC (1) JE (50) JE : « And the prophecies in the Epistles concerning the restoration of the nation of the Jews to the true church of God, and the bringing in the fulness of the Gentiles; and the prophecies in all the Revelation concerning the glorious change in the moral state of the world of mankind, attending the destruction of Antichrist,”
[14] « fold of God » BM (4) « fold of Christ” JE (1) JE: “the great calling and gathering of the Jews into the fold of Christ, and their being received to the blessings of his kingdom, after the fall of Antichrist, or the destruction of mystical Babylon. In the text we have an account how this future glorious advancement of the church of God should be brought on”
[15] BM (3) JE (1) JE : « should be removed to be brought to Christ, to be gathered home to him”
[16] BM (7) DC (1) « land of their inheritance” BM (13) DC (1)
[17] OT (30) BM (28) DC (10) JE (40)
[18] OT (19) BM (6) DC (3) JE (30)
[19] « lands of promise » BM (2) « land of promise” NT (1) BM (22) DC (3) PGP (1) JE (12)
[20] OT (5) NT (3) BM (3) DSC (1) JE (23)
[21] OT (2) NT (1) BM (5) DC (1) JE (5)
[22] BM (1) “because of the blessing” OT (1)
[23] BM ()1) JE (3) JE: “He shall bestow that great gift of eternal life, in both soul and body, in the whole church, in every individual member, in a state of most consummate glory”
[24] OT (1) BM (1) JE (3)
[25] “searched much”BM (1)
[26] NT (1) BM (3) JE (100) JE: “ have you not spent much of your time, many of you , in fretfulness and anger” “How profanely have you talked, many of you , about those things that are holy”
[27] OT (1) NT (7) BM (11) DC (3) PGP (1) JE (80)
[28] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “to think that Our flesh must be turned to putrefaction”
[29] BM (2) JE (4) JE: “Let it not be all vain, light, empty, tending to nothing in the world else but to amuse you and waste away precious time”
[30] BM (1) JE (2) JE : « we should glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits”
[31] NT (8) BM (3) DC (1) JE (200)
[32] BM (11) JE (30) « shew himself » OT (4) JE paraphrasing: “Proverbs 18:24, "A man that hath friends, must show himself friendly."
[33] NT (2) BM (12) DC (26) JE (10)
[34] BM (4) DC (3) “it behooved” NT (2) JE (1) “it behooves” JE (30) JE: “ it behooves believers to keep God's commandments, lest they should go to hell”
[35] BM (3) JE (14) JE : « The great Creator that made all these stars, and is the Creator of this great system of bodies, has been murdered, and his blood has been wickedly shed in this system, and on this earth”
[36] “suffereth himself” BM (3) JE (1) other forms: NT (1) BM (13) DC (1) JE (10)
[37] BM (9) DC (3) JE (10) JE: “ that so glorious a person should become subject to the law, has done much more honor to it than if man had obeyed”
[38] OT (2) NT (29) BM (23) DC (17) PGP (5) JE (100)
[39] BM (1) JE (3) JE: “ however Christ in some sense may be said to die for all , and to redeem all visible Christians, yea, the whole world by his death; yet there must be something particular in the design of his death” “Christ did die for all in this sense, that all by his death have an opportunity of being [saved]; and he had that design in dying, that they should have that opportunity by it.”
[40] « die for all men » BM (1)
[41] NT (1) BM (1) DC (1) JE (30) NT: « as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)
[42] “merciful plan” BM (1)
[43] “plan” BM (42) DC (3) PGP (2) JE (150)
[44] BM (5) DC (1) JE (5)
[45] BM (1) NT: “10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, (Philippians 3:10) JE : « every saint that is the subject of the benefit of Christ's sufferings, is made to know and experience the power of his resurrection”
[46] NT (1) BM (1) DC (1) JE (1)
[47] OT (43) NT (10) BM (3) PGP (1) JE (200+)
[48] BM (2) DC (1)
[49] BM (11)
[50] NT (1) BM (21) DC (13) JE (90) JE : « it must needs be an infinite power that keeps the parts of atoms together” “
[51] OT (3) BM (11) DC (2) JE (100s)
[52] OT (80) NT 91) BM (28) DC (3) PGP (1) JE (100s) JE : « this again shows the truth of what the Scripture reveals concerning the necessity of a Savior, to offer an atonement of infinite value for sin” “And this proves that a sacrifice of infinite value was necessary, and that God would accept of no other: for an atonement that bears no proportion to the offense is no atonement. An atonement carries in it a payment or satisfaction in the very notion of it.” “with all the heart accepting an infinitely great atonement for sin”
[53] Paraphrase of NT: “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality
(1 Corinthians 15:53–54) NT/JE : « So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: (1 Corinthians 15:42) JE: “No more earth and animal, but spiritual: their corruption was destroyed and they put on incorruption; their mortality was destroyed and they put on immortality.” “saints arising out of their graves, putting off their corruption and putting on incorruption and glory”
[54] NT (4) BM (6) JE (20)
[55] BM (1) JE (1)
[56] BM (1)
[57] NT (2) BM 95) JE (15)
[58] BM (1) JE (15) JE: « 133. How do you prove the endless duration of hell torments? 134. How do you reconcile the endless duration of hell torments with the perfect justice and infinite goodness of God? 135. How do you reconcile the endless duration of hell torments with those tests, which say, Christ died for all men…”
[59] OT (2) BM (1) JE (5)
[60] BM (2)
[61] BM (3) JE (5) JE: “We are all born of the same mother earth , and thither we shall all return”
[62] OT (1) BM (3) JE (4) JE: “The body of man often lies down and sleeps and rises up again, but at last will lie down and rise no more”
[63] OT (1) NT (5) BM (3) PGP (1) JE (100+)
[64] BM (2) JE (40) JE: “OF THE CREATION. There are many of the divine attributes that, if God had not created the world, never would have had any exercise: the power of God, the wisdom and prudence and contrivance of God, and the goodness and mercy and grace of God, and the justice of God.”
[65] “become subject to” BM (1) DC (1) JE (10) JE: “ this necessity, by which men become subject to this propensity to sin”
[66] NT (8) BM (4) DC (4) PGP (1) JE (100s) JE : « glorious as he was, that he must be a ministering spirit to the race of mankind that he had seen newly created, that appeared so feeble, mean and despicable, so vastly inferior not only to him, the prince of the angels and head of the universe, but also to the inferior angels, and that he must be subject to one of that race that should hereafter be born, he could not bear it. This occasioned his fall, and now he with the other angels he drew away with him are fallen.”
[67] BM (1)
[68] NT (1) BM (3) NT: “24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, (Jude 1:24)
[69] OT (1) BM (6) DC (1) JE (10)
[70] BM (1)
[71] BM (2) JE (30) JE: “whereas the Apostle says, "the Spirit bears witness with our spirits " [Romans 8:16]” paraphrasing “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Romans 8:16) JE: “The Apostle observes the difference, and speaks of earthly fathers as being "fathers of our flesh," or our bodies only, but of God as being the "Father of our spirits ." Hebrews 12:9” paraphrasing “shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?” (Hebrews 12:9)
[72] BM (1)
[73] OT (2) BM (1) PGP (3) JE (18) JE (Brainerd) : « my being shut out from God's presence” “what the soul endures that is sensibly shut out from the presence of God”
[74] “shut out from the presence” BM (1) PGP (2) JE (1)
[75] BM (1) JE (4) JE: “He is called emphatically the evil one, the wicked one, that wicked one, etc. He is a liar and the father of lies , and the father of all the sin and wickedness that is or ever has been in the world.”
[76] OT (6) NT (1) BM (25) DC (3) PGP (3) JE (100+)
[77] BM (2) « like himself » JE (12) JE: “Satan suggested that He had forbid them, because He was unwilling that they should be so much like Himself in honor and happiness.”
[78] OT (4) NT (1) BM (2) PGP (1) JE (15)
[79] BM (13) JE (150) JE: “ Satan goes on with mankind, as he began with them: he prevailed against our first parents , and cast 'em out of Paradise, and suddenly brought all their happiness and glory to an end, by appearing to be a friend to their happy paradisaic state, and pretending to advance it to higher degrees. So the same cunning serpent, that beguiled Eve through his subtlety”
[80] OT (18) NT (19) BM (2) DC (1) PGP (2) JE (60)
[81] NT (1) BM (1) DC (2) JE (60) NT: « And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
(2 Corinthians 11:14)
[82] OT (23) BM (131) DC (39) PGP (15) JE (120)
[83] “secret combinations” BM (13) DC (1)
[84] BM (21) DC (1) JE (2) JE: “They labor hard in the day time and the night is, much of it, spent in contriving. This is the subject of man's study alone, and this is what they consult about and enter in plots and combinations about one with another. How do men unite their strength and wit to this end, that they may get much of the world.” “his power gloriously appears in conquering in that kingdom wherein his pride and subtilty and cruelty above all appears, viz. the kingdom of Antichrist. It gloriously appears in conquering him in that greatest and strongest combination and opposition of the devil and his adherents 12.36v. against Christ and his church just before the fall of Antichrist, wherein his visible kingdom has a fatal blow given it”
[85] OT (4) NT (5) BM (35) DC 97) PGP (2) JE (100+)
[86] OT (11) NT (11) BM (110) DC (3) PGP (1) JE (200+)
[87] BM (9) PGP (1) JE (1)
[88] “works of darkness” NT (2) BM (13) PGP (1) JE (14)
[89] OT (7) NT (8) BM (22) DC (7) JE (100s)
[90] OT (6) NT (1) BM (15) JE (100s)
[91] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “How will it strike the wicked with horror when they see this fire begin to kindle, and when the fire begins to lay hold upon them, and they find no way to escape it or fly or hide from it”
[92] BM (3) JE (2) JE: “ "In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me."] It is an Hebraism that seems to signify no more than this, viz. he hath held me, or grasped me, within his hand, as one grasps a sword or shaft in his hand. What is covered round in the grasp of the hand is said to be hid "in the shadow of the hand."”
[93] BM (47) JE (200+)
[94] BM (6) JE (23) JE : « Nothing unsanctified can come there to defile the heavenly palace: no wicked monster will be found amongst those pure and spotless, bright and glorious, inhabitants of the New Jerusalem”
[95] NT (3) BM (6) JE (20)
[96] BM (1) JE (25) JE: “In like manner the death, which the Scripture speaks of as the punishment of sin, is a whole including the death of the body , and the death of the soul, and the eternal, sensible, perfect destruction and misery of both. 'Tis this latter whole, that the Apostle speaks of by the name of death in this discourse, in Romans 5.” “the death of the body is a type of the second death, spiritual and eternal death”
[97] BM (1) “death of the soul” JE (15)
[98] BM (1) JE (3) JE : « They are going directly towards the pit of hell, towards the dismal precipice from whence the fall is into the bottomless gulf of woe and misery, but they know it not. And they know not the way of deliverance; the way of salvation is hidden from them. Christ is the way, but they see him not” “they are liable to great fears of eternal punishment; and the proper way of deliverance is to forsake their sin by repentance, and by faith now to come to Christ for deliverance from the deserved eternal punishment; but this it would not be, if deliverance from that punishment, was not this way to be obtained. But what is a still more plain and direct evidence”
[99] OT (31) BM (40) JE (80)
[100] OT (1) NT (1) BM (3) JE (25)
[101] BM (6) DC (2) JE (100)
[102] OT (2) NT (1) BM (22) DC (1) JE (40) NT : « And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death”(Matthew 10:21) JE: “ dedicate ourselves to him, and deliver up our bodies and souls into his hands”
[103] BM (1)
[104] BM (8) JE (35)
[105] “hell must” BM (2)
[106] BM (1)
[107] “grave must” BM (1)
[108] BM (1)
[109] BM (1) DC (3) JE (2) JE quoting Hervey.
[110] OT (3) NT (1) BM (22) DC (2) JE (70) JE : « the world, as to the wicked, which are far the greater number, will not be restored; but with respect to the elect, it will be restored , for they shall receive a new heaven and a new earth, instead of it. If this individual world belonged to the elect as much as their bodies, then would it be requisite that this individual world should be restored, as well as their bodies.”
[111] NT (1) BM (1) JE (20)
[112] BM (3)
[113] BM (9) PGP (1) JE (200)
[114] NT (1) BM (3) DC (2) JE (30)
[115] “spirits of the righteous” BM (1)
[116] “righteous” as a noun OT (40) NT (1) BM (16) DC (3) PGP (2) JE ( OT: words, death, congregation, way, generation, afflictions, mouth, salvation, horns, soul, tabernacles, lot, paths, labour, lips, desire, hope, seed, fruit, root, thoughts, house, light, heart, prayer, father, dwelling, work, righteousness, sepulchres, BM: spirits, body, righteousness, words, names, ways, prayers, hearts, souls and bodies, lamentation, more part DC: song, separation, congregation PGP: blood, day JE: lips, heart, righteousness, generation, works, advancing, seed, death, perfection, happiness, separation, state, afflictions, thoughts, distinction, gathering, seed, distresses, cause, reward, sins, soul, desert, souls, bodies, land, judgment, welfare, abode, light, prosperity, glory, prayer(s), good deeds, work, life, death, good name, hearts
[117] « grave deliver » BM (1)
[118] “body of the righteous” BM (1) “bodies of the righteous” JE (1) JE: “The bodies of the righteous shall be changed into the same glorious and immortal form as those that are raised.”
[119] BM (2) DC (2) « spirit and body” BM (1) JE (2) JE: “spiritual practice in man, is the practice of a spirit and body jointly”
[120] BM (2)
[121] NT (1) BM (2) JE (100) JE : « tis God that will Raise the body at the Last day and will Restore it to the soul not as it is now but a blessed and Glorious habitation. an Incorruptible and spiritual and Glorious body”
[122] NT (1) BM (10) DC (3) PGP (2) JE (200)
[123] BM (1) DC (1) PGP (2)
[124] NT (1) BM (14) JE (10)
[125] “knowledge shall be perfect” BM (1) JE (1) JE : « As the happiness of the saints, so their knowledge shall be perfect in its kind”
[126] OT (1) BM (1) JE (15)
[127] BM (2) JE (1)
[128] OT (29) NT (11) BM (3) DC (1) JE (200)
[129] BM (1) JE (20) “enjoyment” BM (1) DC (1) JE (100s)
[130] BM (1)
[131] OT (1) BM (1) JE (8)
[132] BM (4) JE (3) JE: “when a few more days shall have passed away, you shall be with them in their blessedness forever.”
[133] BM (3) DC (1) JE (8) JE : « I think 'tis evident, the first resurrection is a spiritual resurrection, and the second death is a spiritual and eternal death. The first death is a natural death, and the second resurrection a natural resurrection.”
[134] BM (1) JE (30) JE: “Constantly pray to God in secret; and often remember that great day when you must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and meet your minister there, who has so often counseled and warned you” “who is to be the Judge that all mankind must appear before”
[135] “judgment-seat” BM (55) DC (1) “judgment seat” NT (10) DC (1) JE (70) NT/JE “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10)
[136] NT (2) BM (17) DC (6) JE (25)
[137] BM (1)
[138] OT (7) NT (2) BM (5) DC (4) JE (50)
[139] BM (1) JE (6) JE: “it is impossible that there can be any state of pure nature wherein the soul can know God as he is, without any supernatural illumination or irradiation of the eternal Word”
[140] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “word that Cannot Pass away”
[141] OT (1) BM (6) JE (10) JE: “children who are adult and come to act for themselves, who are righteous , and don't approve of, but sincerely condemn the wickedness of their fathers, shall not be punished for their disapproved and avoided iniquities”
[142] NT (1) BM (2) JE (6) NT : He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. (Revelation 22:11)
[143] OT (7) NT (10) BM (16) DC (2) JE (200+)
[144] NT (1) BM (2) DC (2) JE (15)
[145] NT (1) BM (2) DC (5) JE (20)
[146] NT (2) BM (2) DC (1) JE (50) NT : « Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matthew 25:41)
[147] NT (11) BM (16) DC (5) PGP (2) JE (200+)
[148] NT (1) BM (10) DC (1) JE (15)
[149] “flame ascendeth” BM (3) NT/JE: the smoke of their torment shall ascend up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night" (Revelation 14:10–11). They are tormented in a flame that burns within them as well as round about them
[150] BM (1) JE (8) JE: “the world shall last no longer than the conflagration, but the soul shall last through an eternity that has no end”
[151] BM (1) “justice of God” BM (12) DC (1) JE (70)
[152] OT (6) BM (3) DC (1) JE (7)
[153] OT (2) BM (6) DC (2) PGP (1) JE (2)
[154] NT (2) BM (8) DC (2) PGP (2) JE (5) JE : « that was the covenant that must be fulfilled . This law of works indeed includes all laws of God that ever have been given to mankind” “The law threatened death, and it must be fulfilled”
[155] OT (1) NT (7) BM (1) DC (1) PGP (1) JE (200)
[156] BM (1) JE (1) JE : « propose no Other than patiently to bear all the Crosses and adversities that God in his Providence shall Lay upon Us”
[157] BM (1) JE (7) JE paraphrasing « Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2) JE: “He will obtain "the joy that was set before him, for which he endured the cross, and despised the shame " [Hebrews 12:2] “this being the joy that was set before him, for which he run his race, endured the cross, and despised the shame”
[158] NT (1) BM (2) JE (6)
[159] OT (3) NT (2) BM (5) DC (4) PGP (2) JE (25)
[160] NT (10) BM (22) DC (10) PGP (3) JE (100)
[161] OT (2) NT (1) BM (3) JE (6)
[162] BM (1)
[163] OT (3) NT (1) BM (1) DC (1) JE (200)
[164] See “he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.” (Psalms 97:10) JE (Brainerd) “he is the same as he was when he delivered his saints of old out of great tribulation” “whoever supposes this to be God's method of delivering his saints”
[165] BM (7) DC (1) JE (2) JE : « need not fear being hurried into Endless torment”
[166] Holiness of the Lord OT (1) “holiness of our God” BM (1) “holiness of Jesus Christ” BM (1) “holiness of God” JE (60) JE: “must conceive of the knowledge and holiness of God as prior in the order of nature to his happiness”
[167] “not anything” OT (7) NT (1) BM (3) DC (3) JE (15) BM (1) “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:3)
[168] BM (1) JE (14) JE: “What infinite wisdom and knowledge is necessary and requisite in order to this! But this God doth; this he hath done and will do. All the changes and alterations that happen in all the world, heaven and earth, whether great or never so small, he knows it altogether, even to the least insect that crawls upon the earth, or dust that flies in the air, and it is all from his disposal, and according to his eternal determination.”
[169] BM (2) JE (1) JE : « For they hold 'tis unjust for God to make men miserable for Adam's sin, and that it is unjust to punish 'em for that sin that they can't avoid, and that therefore it is unjust for God not to preserve or save all men that do what they can or use their sincere endeavors to do their duty. And therefore it certainly follows that 'tis unjust in God not to give all opportunity to be saved or preserved from misery, and consequently it is no fruit at all of any grace or kindness in him to give such opportunity…”
[170] OT (1) NT (1) BM (13) JE (50)
[171] OT (7) BM (1) PGP (4) JE (3)
[172] BM (2) JE (2) JE : « So it was in the family of Adam : this is a duty that he trained up his two sons, Cain and Abel, in.”
[173] NT (2) BM (1) JE (20)
[174] OT (3) NT (1) BM (1) JE (12) OT: “at the end thereof they might stand before the king” (Daniel 1:5)
[175] BM (1)
[176] BM (1)
[177] NT (2) BM (9) DC (2) JE (8)
[178] NT (69) BM (38) DC (16) PGP (2) JE (100s)
[179] OT (2) NT (1) BM (7) DC (4) JE (20)
[180] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “an Apostle not only to believe in his name him but to bear his name before the Gentiles” Cf: “believe on his name” NT (1) BM (12) JE (8)
[181] BM (8) DC (2) JE (8) JE: “Which latter words plainly show, that those spoken of before, whose love should not endure to the end , but wax cold, should not be saved.” JE paraphrasing Matt and Mark : « Matthew 10:22, "Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure to the end , shall be saved." “And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” (Matthew 10:22) And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (Mark 13:13)
[182] BM (1) JE (3) JE: “They mean all these must be believed, or else we must be damned”
[183] NT (2) BM (2) JE (20) NT: “13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.” (Romans 5:13)
[184] OT (1) BM (3) JE (25) JE : « But if there be no punishment of sin in another world, men need not be very much afraid to offend God and to go contrary to his will, and affront him and rebel against him, and contemn and mock and blaspheme him: I say, if there be no punishment in a future state, men need not be much afraid of such things.” “If there be no future punishment, then there can be nothing to restrain men from ruining and devouring one another. Conscience would not restrain from doing anything that they had a prospect of promoting their own interest by, if they were sure there was no punishment in another world. There would be nothing to restrain men from theft, or robbery, or adultery, or perjury, or murder, or anything else whereby any man had any prospect of his own wealth or pleasure. Mankind would devour one another. There would be no such thing as living in the world”
[185] NT (1) BM (3) DC (5) JE (20)
[186] BM (4) DC (6) JE: “For righteousness, or an exact obedience to the law, seems by the Scripture to have a claim of right to eternal life”
[187] BM (2)
[188] BM (6) JE (7) JE “The argument is of the same sort with that which the Apostle here makes use of to show the vanity of the ancient sacrifices, and their insufficiency to answer the end of a true atonement, that they did not satisfy because the demands of justice still remained, and its appetite returned, as in the other case the demands of nature.”
[189] JE: “a real atonement or satisfaction to his justice was necessary” “The argument is of the same sort with that which the Apostle here makes use of to show the vanity of the ancient sacrifices, and their insufficiency to answer the end of a true atonement , that they did not satisfy because the demands of justice still remained, and its appetite returned, as in the other case the demands of nature.”
[190] BM (2) JE (15) JE : « They have all their sins pardoned. They are delivered from a hell of eternal misery.” “the miserable and dreadful state and condition that Christ's people are in before they are delivered by his redemption”
[191] OT (7) NT (1) BM (15) DC (1) JE (70)
[192] BM (1)
[193] NT (3) BM (68) DC (4) PGP (2) JE (30)
[194] OT (1) BM (5) JE (2) JE: “as 'tis the will of Christ, who became in all things like unto us that his disciples should in many things become like unto him”
[195] BM (9) DC (1) JE (200) JE : « the light of nature alone never could be sufficient to ascertain the limits of their day of probation , and satisfy 'em on sure grounds that repentance shall never be accepted in some future state” “Supposing this were possible, that the sinner himself could by suffering pay the debt, and afterwards be in the same state that he was in before his probation , that is to say, negatively righteous, or merely without guilt; if he now at last should have eternal life bestowed upon him, without performing that condition of obedience, then God would recede from his law, and would give the promised reward, and his law never have respect and honor”
[196] OT (1) BM (1) JE (3) JE : « Though the tent that was set up for man to sojourn in, during his state of probation ,”
[197] OT (32) NT (1) BM (24) DC (3) JE (70)
[198] “cunning plan” BM (1) DC (2) [Note: “cunning device/s” BM (2) JE (1)]
[199] BM (7) DC (2) JE (5) JE: “Matthew 13:19, "Then cometh the evil one , and catcheth” paraphrasing “then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth” (Matthew 13:19) Also JE: “He is called emphatically the evil one , the wicked one, that wicked one, etc. He is a liar and the father of lies, and the father of all the sin and wickedness that is or ever has been in the world.” “so the devil is Called the Evil one because he is the most evil of all and the Father of evil.” “therefore in scripture the devil is Called the Evil one”
NOTE : NT different connotation : Speak not evil one of another (James 4:11)
[200] BM (1)
[201] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “The more wisdom a man hath, the more can he give check to passion. They can oppose wise considerations, the frailties of nature, their own slips, their need of pardon from God.”
[202] OT (13) NT (7) BM (4) JE (100)
[203] “they think” OT (1) NT (2) BM (2) JE (100s)
[204] OT (9) BM (2) DC (2) JE (2)
[205] OT (2) NT (2) BM (1) JE (15)
[206] BM (1)
[207] NT (7) BM (14) JE (200+) JE: “For us to delay, supposing that we know the time to be far off”
[208] BM (1) NT: “30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(Luke 21:30) JE: “that which above all other things concerns us to know of ourselves is what we are before God”
[209] OT (181) NT (53) BM (57) DC (72) PGP (13) JE (130) “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
(1 Corinthians 3:19) JE: “The wisest of men, how little do they know, how frequently are they deceived and frustrated, and their wisdom turned to foolishness , their politic designs undermined
[210] OT (5) NT (1) BM (9) JE (20)
[211] BM (2) JE (7) JE in a different connotation. “ this matter is not to be learned from Scripture any other way than by consequence”
[212] BM (1) DC (3) JE (6) JE : « inquire with yourself, "Is this agreeable to what is written in the Word, to the commandments and counsels of God there, or is it not?" If this method were taken and kept to, many would escape that now are ensnared and ruined.” “They were in heaven before, the sanctuary of God; but were not admitted within the veil, into the most holy place, where all the counsels of God in Christ are displayed and represented. There was no entrance before either as to grace or glory within the veil, Hebrews 9:8. For as I said, within the veil are all the counsels of God in Christ laid open,”
[213] NT (4) BM (14) DC (2) JE (50)
[214] BM (1) JE (2) JE: “ Worldly men are proud of their riches and despise the poor in spirit, but the poor in spirit despise all their wealth and pity them. “
[215] BM (2)
[216] BM (1)
[217] BM (2) JE (10) JE : « how do the possessors often delight to view and handle their treasure”
[218] OT (15) NT (2) BM (5) DC (2) JE (40) JE : « it is in a Great measure like preaching to an assembly of deaf adders that will not hear the will of the Charmer”
[219] OT (1) NT (1) BM (1) JE (12) JE : « I say, 'tis but reasonable to suppose, that this would blind men from discerning the beauties of such a book; and that therefore they will not see them”
[220] BM (2)
[221] BM (14) DC (12) PGP (2) JE (30)
[222] NT (1) BM (3) DC (3) JE (12) NT: « And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.” (Luke 10:15)
[223] BM (1) JE (25)
[224] OT (32) BM (27) JE (5)
[225] BM (3) JE (15) JE: “They are resolved that they would worship idols , and God is resolved that they shall, too”
[226] BM (1)
[227] BM (10) JE (3) [Note: meaning “in summary” not “in fine linen”] JE: “And in fine , love would dispose men to do to others as they would that others should do to them.”
[228] BM (3) JE (3) JE: “those that Continue wicked & die in their sins shall be Punished with Everlasting destruction”
[229] BM (1) JE (15) JE: “To make the misery of man, because, separated from God by sin, and far distant, he must be recalled from his errors that he may return to God” JE: “Eccles. 12:7, "the spirit shall return to God who gave it... As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness” paraphrasing “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
[230] BM (1) JE (1)
[231] BM (1)
[232] BM (2) JE (10) JE: “the awfulness of the tendency of the fall with respect to temporal destruction was much more manifest many ways”
[233] BM (1)
[234] OR (1) BM (5) JE (70) cf 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. (Joshua 24:19)
[235] OT (7) BM (2) PGP (11) JE (100+)
[236] “enticings” BM (2) “enticing” NT 92) BM 92) JE (15)
[237] “cunning one” BM (1)
[238] NT (1) BM (1) JE (5) NT : “6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Romans 8:6)
[239] NT (1) BM (1) JE (5)
[240] NT (4) BM (4) DC (2) PGP (1) JE (20)
[241] OT (6) BM (3) DC (4) JE (7) OT: “Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.” (Psalms 5:1)
[242] BM (1)
[243] NT (2) BM (7) DC (3) JE (10)
[244] OT (2) BM (4) JE (10)
[245] OT (37) NT (7) BM (21) DC (13) JE (100)
[246] OT (1) NT (1) BM (18) DC (4) JE (28)
[247] NT (2) BM (1) JE (40)
[248] BM (1) DC (1) JE (10) JE : « consider your ways, for you are every moment in danger of being drawn into an offence of your Maker”
[249] OT (3) NT (1) BM (1) JE (4)
[250] BM (2) JE (1) JE: “no one difficulty or circumstance of the objection, but what lies as hard against their own opinion as mine.”
[251] OT (3) NT (1) BM (1) JE (1)
[252] OT (1) BM (1) JE (3) JE: “observe, while we love the truth , and honestly endeavor”
[253] BM (1) JE (1)
[254] BM (1)
[255] BM (1) JE (2) « this is the appointed way for man to obtain salva”
[256] OT (8) NT (1) BM (17) DC (1) JE (100s) NT: “14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14)
[257] NT (2) BM (5)
[258] OT (15) NT (2) BM (1) PGP (1) JE (10)
[259] “keeper of the gate” BM (1)
[260] BM (1)
[261] BM (2)
[262] BM (1) JE (2) JE: “ how can an all-sufficient Being, who wants nothing, and cannot be deceived to think he wants any thing, be tempted to do evil for selfish ends?”
[263] OT (3) NT (1) BM (3) JE (17) JE : « and " to him will I give to eat of the hidden manna" paraphrasing “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna” (Revelation 2:17)
[264] OT (61) NT 914) BM (7) DC (6) JE (100s)
[265] OT (2) BM 99) DC (1) JE (100) JE : « The evidence that is this way obtained, is vastly better and more satisfying, than all that can be obtained by the arguings of those that are most learned, and greatest masters of reason. And babes are as capable of knowing these things, as the wise and prudent; and they are often hid from these, when they are revealed to those”
[266] NT (3) BM (5) JE (50)
[267] NT (6) BM (9) JE (40)
[268] BM (2) JE (25) JE : « So now learning is at a great height at this day in the world—far beyond what it was in the age when Christ appeared. And now the world by their learning and wisdom don't know God.”
[269] NT (1) BM (7) DC (7) JE (30) JE : « they are they that halt between two opinions”
[270] BM (5)
[271] BM (1)
[272] BM (1) JE (3) JE: “when persons seem to consider themselves as being upon the account of their good works worthy that God should delight in them, this is self-righteousness”
[273] OT (34) NT (8) BM (4) DC (1) JE (100+)
[274] OT (6) NT (1) BM (27) JE (75)
[275] “depths of humility” BM (5)
[276] OT (7) NT (1) BM (2) DC (1) JE (14) NT/JE : « I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent” (1 Corinthians 1:19) DC “the wisdom of the wise shall perish, and the understanding of the prudent shall come to naught.” (Doctrine and Covenants 76:9)
[277] NT (2) BM (1) JE (9)
[278] BM (30) DC (1) PGP (1) JE (100s)
[279] BM (1) JE (1) JE : «And as to the things which Christ has revealed, of God's eternal purposes and designs, concerning fallen man, and the glorious and everlasting things prepared for the saints in another world, they see that they are so indeed”
[280] BM (1)
[281] OT (5) BM (2) JE (60)
[282] OT (87) NT (16) BM (37) DC (15) JE (200) JE : « God will cause his church to arise and shake herself from the dust, and put on her beautiful garments” cf. “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. (Isaiah 52:1–2)
[283] OT (33) NT (6) BM (31) DC (12) PGP (1) JE (200)
[284] OT (7) BM (1) JE (7)
[285] BM (2) JE (4) JE: “especially that penetrating, all - searching light of God's holiness and glory” “displeasing to the Pure all searching Eyes of G
[286] NT (5) BM (49) DC (8) JE (100)
[287] “all men shall be judged” BM (1) JE (2) JE : « All men shall be judged publicly, at the end of the world, according to their works. In this world men are distinguished from one another according to their riches, worldly power, and high descent, but then all such distinctions shall cease forever,” “all men shall be judged at the end of this world according to their behavior in this life”
[288] OT (2) NT (4) BM (9) DC (1) JE (40)
[289] OT (1) BM (7) DC (1) JE (28) NOTE : « judged of their works” BM (5)
[290] OT (8) NT (4) BM (8) PGP (2) JE (50) NT : « And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.(Acts 18:6)
[291] BM (1)
[292] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “Christ is represented as being himself the light and glory that enlightens the New Jerusalem, that fills with brightness and glory the church of God in its last”
[293] OT (6) BM (6) DC (1) JE (100) JE : « their Guilt is uneasy to them they want to Get Rid of it”
[294] OT (10) NT (1) BM (2) JE (27) JE : « But if the Wicked man turn away from all his sins that he hath Committed and keep all my statutes” JE paraphrasing: “27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
(Ezekiel 18:27)
[295] OT (3) NT (3) BM (3) DC (2) JE (16) OT (fruit) NT (dust) BM (chains) DC (dust) JE (fruit, dust, yoke) JE : « There was once a notable attempt made by opposition of power entirely to shake off the yoke of God's moral government, both as lawgiver and judge, by some of the mightiest of creatures, viz. the angels; but they miserably failed in their attempt. God notwithstanding acted as their judge in casting them out of heaven and binding those proud spirits in chains of darkness till a”
[296] BM (1)
[297] BM (1)
[298] OT (12) BM (5) PGP (1) JE (60) OT : « lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.” (Deuteronomy 32:15)
[299] BM (1)
[300] BM (1) JE (75) JE: “Such being the state of things in this future promised glorious day of the church's prosperity, surely 'tis worth praying for. “
[301] “justice shall be administered” BM (1) JE (1) JE : « Thus justice shall be administered at the great day to ministers and their people: and to that end they shall meet together, that they may not only receive justice to themselves, but see justice done to the other party: for this is the end of that great day, to reveal, or declare "the righteous judgment of God"
[302] NT (2) BM (11) DC (5) PGP (1) JE (55)
[303] NT (8) BM (4) DC (8) JE (200+)
[304] BM (6) DC (1) JE (30) JE: “the very thoughts of which would make 'em shrink into nothing, with horror and confusion” “The most bold and daring of sinners are the worst cowards upon a deathbed. How do they fear and tremble; how do they shrink back”
[305] « may not remember » BM (1)
[306] OT (3) NT (1) BM (15) JE (25)
[307] NT (1) BM (1) DC (1) JE (24)
[308] OT (1) NT (5) BM (8) DC (2) JE (25)
[309] BM (4) JE (10) JE : « If in fact there be nothing in God's providence to provoke men, why should they exclaim against his decrees?”
[310] BM (2) JE (3) JE: (Brainerd) “Oh, my inward pollution! Oh, my guilt and shame before God! I know not what to do. Oh, I longed ardently to be cleansed and washed from the stains of inward pollution!”
[311] OT (8) BM (1) JE (7)
[312] BM (1)
[313] OT (7) BM (2) JE (50) OT (2) in this grammatical sense. JE: “It was foretold that a very great part of the misery and destruction that should be brought upon them, should be by their destroying one another, and particularly by their falling a prey to the lusts and cruelty of their rulers and leaders”
[314] JE: “as an instrument that the great Redeemer makes use of to convince men of their sin and misery and helplessness and God's awful and tremendous majesty and justice as a lawgiver”
[315] NT (7) BM (62) DC (44) JE (90)
[316] “awake you » BM (1) « awaken you” BM (1) JE (15) JE: “Why should not the exceeding greatness of this misery be sufficient to awaken you ? If this misery be so extremely great than is proportionably terrible, and if you act reasonably, you shall be proportionably afraid of it and terrified with the danger of it.”
[317] BM (1) PGP (2) JE (200+)
[318] OT (1) BM (5) Webster’s 1828 dictionary says it is a synonym for “torment” and gives this example: “Would harrow up thy soul”
[319] OT (5) NT (11) BM (31) DC (17) PGP (2) JE (100s) NT/JE : « 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance” (2 Peter 3:1)
[320] “minds were pure” BM (1) JE (1) that they had unfeigned love (1 Peter 1:22); that their minds were pure (II Pet. 3:1)
[321] “the plainness” BM (7) JE (7) “plainness” NT (1) BM (15) DC (1) JE (65) JE: « the following things may be laid down as maxims of plain truth” “have drawn them from the light of plain truth”
[322] NT (1) BM (1) JE (10)
[323] OT (1) BM (10) JE (40) JE: “ I would speak to this doctrine, first, by briefly showing, how a Christian society may be as a city set on an hill”
[324] BM (1) JE (4) JE : « it must needs be that those that are not holy cannot be in the way to heaven”
[325] OT (2) BM (2) DC (1) JE (7)
[326] OT (1) NT (4) BM (4) DC (2) JE (30)
[327] “it must needs be expedient” BM (3)
[328] BM (1) JE (12) JE: “that men might always have before their eyes a striking demonstration, that sin is infinitely hateful to God, by a sight of that, than which nothing is more proper to give them the utmost abhorrence of iniquity, and to fix in their minds a sense of the dreadful consequences of sin , etc.”
[329] OT (5) BM (2) JE (4)
[330] OT (20) NT (5) BM (19) DC (17) PGP (6) JE (100) JE : « But a gracious man has a principle in his heart that directs and governs him, that abhors sin, and relishes and delights in righteousness” “God's holiness would not have been seen, either in the displays of his hatred of sin in punishing it, or of delight in righteousness in his so exceedingly rewarding it” “because he is a righteous judge, one that delights in righteousness or in judging righteously, and abhors partiality and injustice”
[331] OT (1) BM (1) JE (8) OT: Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. (Isaiah 55:1–2)
[332] BM (1) JE (1) JE: “do not spend time”
[333] “is of no worth” BM (2)
[334] BM (5) JE (2) JE: “This worthiness is nothing else but God's gracious acceptation of a sinner through Jesus Christ, calling them to this grace through the knowledge of the gospel, and giving them eternal life because they are worthy; which noteth liberality in the giver, but no worth in the receiver.”
[335] BM (1) JE (2) 1808 (not in Yale) “The godly have been made sensible, as to all creature enjoyments, that they cannot satisfy the soul, and that happiness is in God; and therefore nothing will content them but God.” “laboring for worldly wealth is compared to labouring for the wind because it cannot satisfy.”
[336] OT (3) BM (1) JE (12) JE 1808: “1. How much Christ appears as the Lamb of God, in his invitations to you, to come to him and trust in him. With what sweet grace and kindness does he from time to time, call and invite you; as Proverbs 8:4, "Unto you, O men I call, and my voice is to the sons of men." And Isaiah 55:1–3, "Ho everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy wine and milk, without money, and without price." How gracious is he here in inviting everyone that thirsts, and in so repeating his invitation over and over, "Come ye to the waters, come buy and eat, yea come!" and in declaring the excellency of that entertainment which he invites you to accept of, "Come buy wine and milk!" and in assuring you that your poverty, and having nothing to pay for it, shall be no objection, "Come, he that hath no money, come without money, and without price!" And in the gracious arguments and expostulations he uses with you! As it follows, "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness."
[337] NT (1) BM (12) DC (1) JE (4)
[338] OT (84) NT (39) BM 99) DC (2) JE (100s)
[339] BM (1)
[340] OT (1) BM (1) DC (1) JE (12)
[341] BM (1) OT: “let your soul delight itself in fatness.” (Isaiah 55:2) JE: “So we are invited in Isaiah 55:2 not to "spend money for that which is not bread, and labor for that which satisfieth not," but to come to Christ, to eat "that which is good," that our souls may delight themselves in fatness. So this feast in Isaiah 25:6 is called "a feast of fat things, of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." This feast is a royal feast, the feast of a king.”
[342] OT (74) NT (7) BM (51) DC (10) PGP (2) JE (100s) NT : « he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. (Luke 6:12)
[343] OT (32) NT (3) BM (13) DC (2) JE (60) JE : « we are directed to seek the continuance of our outward food, and to pray that God would give us day by day our daily bread.”
[344] OT (5) BM (6) DC (4) JE (15)
[345] BM (1) DC (2) “heart rejoice” NT (1) JE (3)
[346] BM (2) JE (1) “condescension” BM (3) JE (200) JE : « The gospel above all things in the world holds forth the exceeding condescension of God.” “Hereby the condescension of God appeared, and hereby Christ above all other things showed his humility, in that he was willing to be thus abased, and in thus humbling himself and becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. “
[347] “because of his greatness” BM (2)
[348] OT (4) BM (2) JE (70) JE : « not only may Greatness be considered as a capacity of Excellency; but a Being, by reason of his greatness considered alone, is the more excellent, because he partakes more of Being”
[349] BM (2) JE (28)
[350] BM (11) DC (1) JE (3) JE: “It is the divinity that always has been taught hitherto, that the only condition of the covenant of grace is saving faith; and therefore no promises of that covenant are made on lower terms, neither respecting ourselves or our seed. The promises of the covenant of grace are to Abraham and his seed, and such as are of the faith of Abraham and their seed, but to no other.
In this scheme, some rational account can be given of infant baptism. 'Tis reasonable to suppose, that seeing God's design was in the covenant of grace to make all needful provision for the comfort of his people every way, that in this covenant [God] should make some provision for the comfort of believers with regard to their children, who are necessarily dear to them and are liable to die in infancy. If there was nothing in the covenant of grace encouraging parents respecting their salvation, they would in this respect be left without needful comfort; for God has given parents a strong natural affection to their children, and grace don't destroy that affection. And then grace naturally makes parents more desirous of their children's salvation, as it gives 'em a greater sense of the worth of their souls, and the infinite importance of salvation. God therefore, that he might every way provide for the comfort of his saints, has made provision in the covenant of grace for their comfort in this respect, by indefinite promises of their salvation (Deuteronomy 30:6), giving great encouragement for 'em to hope for these two things: first, that if their children die before they can act for themselves, he will accept their act for them in entirely giving them up to him in faith in Jesus Christ; second, great encouragement, that if they live to be capable to act for them [selves], and they fulfill their obligations in a Christian education, their endeavors shall be succeeded. God has appointed baptism as a seal of those indefinite promises, which give reason to hope that the children thus offered up to him are elect children, and shall be saved.
[351] OT (8) BM (4) DC (1) JE (30) OT: “9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. (1 Samuel 15:9) JE: “It is a wonder not only that the true religion was not wholly rooted out, and so the 2.36r. church destroyed that way, but also that the very nation in which this church was, was not utterly destroyed”
[352] NT (7) BM (12) DC (1) JE (40)
[353] OT (3) BM (10) DC (1) PGP (1) JE (20)
[354] BM (7) DC (1) JE (40)
[355] OT (1) BM (4) JE (12)
[356] OT (28) NT (11) BM (38) JE (6)
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