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Front Matter The "Miscellanies," (Entry Nos. 501–832) Contents Illustrations Note to the Reader Preparation of the Text Acknowledgments

Editor's Introduction Edwards' Religious and Pastoral Experience during the 1730s The Nature, Purpose, and Use of "Miscellanies" Nos. 501–832 Major Themes in "Miscellanies" Nos. 501–832 Justification by Faith Alone Spiritual Knowledge The Rationality of the Christian Religion The History of the Work of Redemption Conversion and the Religious Life Note on the Text

THE "MISCELLANIES," ENTRY NOS. 501–832 501. FALL OF MAN . 502. CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS . 503. CEREMONY . 504. CONDITION OF JUSTIFICATION . REPENTANCE . FAITH . 505. HELL TORMENTS . 506. CHRIST'S SATISFACTION . FIRST COVENANT, ETC . 507. JUSTIFICATION . 508. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 509. HELL TORMENTS . 510. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 511. CONVICTION . 512. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . CHRIST'S MIRACLES 513. INCARNATION . 514. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 515. CONFIRMATION OF THE ANGELS . 516. SATISFACTION OF CHRIST . 517. HUMILIATION . 518[a]. FAITH , JUSTIFICATION . 518[b]. CHRIST'S MIRACLES . CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 519. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 520. FEW SAVED . 521. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . DEATH OF THE SAINTS . 522. NO PROMISES TO UNCONVERTED MEN'S SEEKING SALVATION . 523. ANTICHRIST . 524. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 525. PROVIDENCE . CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 526. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 527. HELL TORMENTS , 528. CONVICTION . HUMILIATION . 529. HEAVEN . 530. LOVE TO GOD . SELF -LOVE . 531. LORD'S DAY . 532. RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST . 533. LAW OF NATURE . 534. RESTRAINING GRACE AND CORRUPTION OF MAN'S NATURE . 535. FATHERS . 536. LORD'S DAY . 537. GRACE . SPIRIT'S OPERATION . 538. PROMISES . ENCOURAGEMENTS . 539. MEANS OF GRACE . 540. SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING . 541. SPIRIT'S OPERATION . 542. MEANS OF GRACE . 543. LORD'S DAY . 544. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 545. HELL TORMENTS . 546. SEPARATE STATE. HELL TORMENTS. HEAVEN . 547. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. GOD'S END IN CREATION AND PROVIDENCE . IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL . 548. CONVICTION . See sermon on Matthew 25:8 , first particular under the second doctrine. HUMILIATION . 549. CHURCH DISCIPLINE. RULING ELDERS . See my note on 1 Corinthians 12:28 . POWER OF THE BRETHREN . 550. HELL TORMENTS . 551. LORD'S DAY . 552. RESURRECTION . CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 553. END OF THE CREATION . 554. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . ANGELS . 555. HEAVEN . SEPARATE STATE. ANGELS . 556. HADES . 557. ETERNITY OF HELL TORMENTS . 558. DEGREE OF HELL TORMENTS . 559. ETERNITY OF HELL TORMENTS . 560. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . SATAN DEFEATED . 561. GOSPEL , NO ENCOURAGEMENT TO SIN . 562. ETERNITY OF HELL TORMENTS . 563. HUMILIATION . 564. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 565. HEAVEN SEPARATE SPIRITS . 566. LAW . SIN . DUTY . 567. LOVE TO GOD . 568. FAITH . JUSTIFICATION . 569. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 570. CONFIRMATION OF ANGELS . 571. HEAVEN . WISDOM AND GLORIOUSNESS OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 572. EXTREMITY OF HELL TORMENTS . 573. FREE WILL . 574. ETERNITY OF HELL TORMENTS . 575. ETERNITY OF HELL TORMENTS. ETERNAL DEATH . 576. HEAVEN'S HAPPINESS . 577. BAPTISM . 578. HUMILIATION . 579. DEGREE OF HELL TORMENTS . 580. FREE GRACE. SPIRIT'S OPERATION . 581. END OF THE CREATION. GLORY OF GOD . 582. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 583. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. MYSTERIES . 584. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. CHRIST'S MIRACLES . 585. HEAVEN'S HAPPINESS . 586. END OF CREATION . 587. BEING OF GOD . NECESSARY EXISTENCE . 588. ETERNITY OF HELL PUNISHMENT , 589. CHRIST'S MEDIATION. DEGREES OF GLORY . CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS . 590. CHRIST'S RESURRECTION. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 591. CONFIRMATION OF THE ANGELS . 592. HELL TORMENTS . 593. CONFIRMATION OF THE ANGELS . 594. CHRIST'S MEDIATION, RIGHTEOUSNESS, SACRIFICE. DEGREES OF GLORY . 595. BAPTISM . 596. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 597. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. CHRISTIANS ARE TO BE LOOKED UPON AS GOD'S PEOPLE, ISRAEL . 598. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. SCRIPTURE . 599. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. CONCERNING THE ABROGATION OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW. TESTAMENTS. DISPENSATIONS . 600. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. LOVE OF ENEMIES , PRAYING AGAINST THEM . 601. CHRISTIANS, THE TRUE ISRAEL . 602. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 603. CORRUPTION OF NATURE . REMAINS OF SIN IN THE GODLY , 604. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS . 605. ORIGINAL SIN. SPIRIT'S OPERATION. FLESH AND SPIRIT . 606. REGENERATION NOT BAPTISM . 607. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 608. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. THE RESURRECTION 609. CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. THE DELIVERING UP OF THE KINGDOM . 610. SELF -RIGHTEOUSNESS , the manner of its working in persons while under CONVICTIONS , 611. COVENANT OF WORKS , 612. SACRAMENT 613. MILLENNIUM . 614. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 615. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 616. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . SATAN DEFEATED . 617. COVENANT OF GRACE . 618. SATAN DEFEATED . 619. SATAN DEFEATED . 620. JUSTIFICATION . 621. CHRIST'S AGONY IN THE GARDEN . 622. CHRIST'S MEDIATION . 623. CONSCIENCE . 624. INCARNATION OF THE SON OF GOD . 625. EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST . 626. SPIRIT'S OPERATION. NATURE. GRACE. COMMON GRACE. SPECIAL REGENERATION . 627. JUSTIFICATION . FREE GRACE. REWARDS . 628. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE. FAITH . 629. MEANS OF GRACE . 630. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE. FAITH . 631. FREE WILL . 632. FREE GRACE. FAITH. JUSTIFICATION 633. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . DIVINITY OF THE SON OF GOD . 634. RESURRECTION . NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH . 635. CONVICTION . HUMILIATION . 636. FAITH , SAVING , 637. TRUSTING IN OUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS 640. LOVE OF ENEMIES . PRAYING AGAINST THEM . 641. CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS . 642. CONVICTION . HUMILIATION . 643. RESURRECTION . 644. RESURRECTION , 645. CONVICTION . HUMILIATION . 646. STRICTNESS OF THE LAW . MISERY OF THE DAMNED . 647. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH . 648. TRUSTING IN OUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS . What some call trusting in the ABSOLUTE MERCY OF GOD , 649. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. CHRISTIANS THE TRUE ISRAEL . 650. BEING OF GOD . NECESSARY EXISTENCE . 'Tis from the exceeding imperfect notions that we have of the nature or essence of God, and because we can't think of it but we must think of it far otherwise than it is, that arises the difficulty in our mind of conceiving of God's existing without a cause. 'Tis repugnant to the nature of our souls, and what our faculties utterly refuse to admit, that anything that is capable of being one part of a proper disjunction should exist and be as it is, rather than not exist or exist otherwise without causes. Our notions we have of the divine nature are so imperfect that our imperfect idea admits of a disjunction, for whatsoever is not absolutely perfect doth so. [In] everything that is imperfect there is dependence, or contingent existence implied in the nature of it, or we can conceive of its being a part of a disjunction. There is a THUS and an OTHERWISE 651. ONE GOD. UNITY OF THE GODHEAD . 652. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. MYSTERIES IN RELIGION . 653. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . CIRCUMSTANCES OF CHRIST'S DEATH . 655. HABIT OF GRACE , NEW NATURE , 656. MISERY OF THE DAMNED . 657. FREE WILL . 658. See [Nos.] 597 and 649. CHRISTIANS THE TRUE ISRAEL . 659. JUSTIFICATION . GRACE . TESTAMENTS . DISPENSATIONS . 660. CONVERSION . 661. CREATION OF THE WORLD , 662. END OF THE CREATION. GLORY OF GOD . 663. FAITH . JUSTIFICATION . 664a. THE GREATNESS OF THE SIN OF UNBELIEF . 664b. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . FALL OF ANGELS . FALL OF MAN. CONFIRMATION OF THE ANGELS. CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS OR OBEDIENCE. DEATH AND SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST. DAY OF JUDGMENT. CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. SEPARATE SPIRITS . 665. IRRESISTIBLE GRACE . 666. SEPARATE STATE . 667. HADES . 668. JUSTIFICATION . FREE GRACE . 669. JUSTIFICATION , whether FAITH and REPENTANCE are two distinct things that in like manner are the CONDITIONS 2. 'Tis the same active conversion or motion of the soul that there is in justifying faith, which active conversion yet, as it respects the term, is Active conversion is a motion or exercise of the mind that respects two terms, viz. sin and God. Now when conversion is spoken of under the appellation of repentance, the exercise of mind about the term from which or about sin, is especially respected; as Acts 26:19–20 , "Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should REPENT and TURN TO GOD . 670. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. OBEDIENCE . 671. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION. OBEDIENCE. REWARDS . 672. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION. OBEDIENCE. REWARDS . 673. [That] SAVING GRACE differs not only in degree, but in nature and kind, from COMMON GRACE , 674. CONVICTION . HUMILIATION . 675. SPIRIT'S OPERATION IN CONVICTION . 676. ALL THAT A NATURAL MAN DOTH IS SIN . 677. SABBATH . LORD'S DAY . 678. BEATIFICAL VISION , 679. GOODNESS OF GOD . LOVE OF GOD . HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN . 680. TRINITY . HOW OIL , 681. ANGELS . HEAVEN . SAINTS . DEGREES OF GLORY . INCARNATION AND DEATH OF CHRIST. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 682. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH . 683. COMMON GRACE. SPECIAL GRACE . 684. JESUS , WHY CALLED MESSIAH, OR CHRIST, OR ANOINTED . 685. RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST . 686. SPIRIT'S WITNESS . 687. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION . 688. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION . 689. VISIBLE CHURCH . 690. EXTREMITY OF HELL TORMENTS . 691. SABBATH . LORD'S DAY . 692. SABBATH . LORD'S DAY . 693. SABBATH . LORD'S DAY . 694. BAPTISM BY SPRINKLING . 695. PERSEVERANCE . 696. EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST . 697. UNITY OF THE GODHEAD . The unity of the Godhead will necessarily follow from God's being infinite: for to be infinite is to be all, and it would be a contradiction to suppose two ALLS , 698. THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST 699. END OF THE CREATION. GLORY OF GOD . 700. PREDESTINATION . REPROBATION . SUPRALAPSARIANS . SUBLAPSARIANS . 701. HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN INCREASING . 702. WORK OF CREATION . PROVIDENCE . REDEMPTION . 703. SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST . 704. DECREES . PREDESTINATION . SUPRALAPSARIANS . SUBLAPSARIANS . 705. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION . 706. SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST, WHY UNPARDONABLE . 707. SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST , 708. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 709. INCARNATION . MYSTICAL UNION . 710. HEAVEN . SEPARATE STATE. RESURRECTION. DISPENSATIONS. HOW 711. PERSEVERANCE . 712. JUSTIFICATION . FAITH . MORAL AND NATURAL SUITABLENESS . 713. INFINITE EVIL OF SIN . WORTHLESSNESS OF OUR HOLINESS. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION . 714. FREE GRACE. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ONLY . 715. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. CHRIST'S RESURRECTION . 716. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. FUTURE STATE . 717. FIRST COVENANT. THE FALL . 718. CONVICTION . WORK OF THE LAW . 719. LORD'S DAY . 720. FIRST 721. HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN AFTER THE RESURRECTION , 722. VISIBLE CHURCH . 723. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . CALLING OF THE GENTILES . 724. PREPARATORY WORK . 725. VANITY OF THE WORLD . 726. PERSEVERANCE . 727. EXALTATION OF CHRIST , 728. SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST . 729. PERSEVERANCE , in what sense necessary to salvation. See [No.] 1188. Though perseverance is acknowledged by Calvinian divines to be necessary to salvation, yet it seems to me that the manner in which it is necessary has not been sufficiently set forth. 'Tis owned to be necessary as a sine qua non ; and also is expressed by that, that though it is not that by which we first come to have a title to eternal life, yet it is necessary in order to the actual possession of it, as the way to it; that it is impossible that we should come to it without perseverance, as 'tis impossible for a man to go to a city or town without traveling throughout the road that leads to it. But we are really saved by perseverance, so that salvation has a dependence on perseverance, as that which influences in the affair, so as to render it congruous that we should be saved. Faith is the great condition of salvation; 'tis that BY 730. MISERY OF HELL . 731. LORD'S DAY. EX . 732. COMMON ILLUMINATION . 733. WHY THE MEDIATOR [IS ] THE SECOND PERSON IN THE TRINITY . WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 734. PREPARATORY WORK 735. HUMILIATION . 736. CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. CHRIST'S DELIVERING UP THE KINGDOM TO THE FATHER . 737. MEDIATOR , WHY THE SECOND PERSON IN THE TRINITY . 738. UNION OF THE DIVINE AND HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST IN ONE PERSON . 739. LOVE TO GOD . PREDOMINANCY OF GRACE . 740. MILLENNIUM . 741. HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN . 742. CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. CHRIST'S DELIVERING UP THE KINGDOM TO THE FATHER . 743. NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH. CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. HEAVEN . 744. CONFIRMATION OF THE ANGELS BY JESUS CHRIST . 745. NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH . 746. HADES . 747. SELF -RIGHTEOUSNESS . PRIDE . 748. LORD'S DAY . 749. BEING OF GOD . THE FIRST CAUSE AN INTELLIGENT VOLUNTARY AGENT . 750. PERSEVERANCE . 751. LORD'S DAY . 752. CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 753. CONVICTION , 754. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE . 755. PERSEVERANCE . 756. MILLENNIUM , 757. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE . 758. DISPENSATIONS . TESTAMENTS . JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE . 759. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 760. CHRISTIAN RELIGION. THE HOLY SCRIPTURE . 761. FREE WILL. MAN'S IMPOTENCE . 762. WISDOM OF GOD IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION . 763. ABSOLUTE DECREES. SINCERITY OF GOD'S INVITATIONS . 764a. CHRIST'S SATISFACTION . 764b. INCARNATION OF CHRIST . UNION OF THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST . 765. MYSTERIES IN RELIGION . 766. INCARNATION OF THE SON OF GOD. UNION OF THE DIVINE AND HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST . 767. INCARNATION OF CHRIST, AND HIS PERFECT HOLINESS . 768. ABRAHAM IS THE FATHER OF BELIEVERS . 769. CHRIST is often spoken of in Scripture as being by way of eminency THE ELECT 770. MYSTERIES . 771. CONVICTION . HUMILIATION . 772. MEDIATION OF CHRIST . 773. PERSEVERANCE . CHRIST'S MEDIATION . 774. PERSEVERANCE . 775. HAPPINESS OF SEPARATE SAINTS . 776. SAINTS IN HEAVEN know what comes to pass in the CHURCH ON EARTH . MILLENNIUM . 777. HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN IS PROGRESSIVE , and has various periods in which it has a new and glorious advancement, and consists very much in BEHOLDING the manifestations that God makes of himself in the WORK OF REDEMPTION . 778. SAINTS IN HEAVEN see what comes to pass in the CHURCH 779. THE NECESSITY OF SATISFACTION 780. JUSTIFICATION , that the ACCEPTANCE of the saints' WORKS 781. CHRIST'S MEDIATION . The WISDOM of God in the WORK OF REDEMPTION . 782. IDEAS . SENSE OF THE HEART. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE or CONVICTION . FAITH . 783. JUSTIFICATION . CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS . 784. ASCENSION OF CHRIST . 785. The DEATH threatened in the COVENANT OF WORKS . 786. How that PERFECT OBEDIENCE is the CONDITION 787. FUTURE STATE. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL . Our existence in ANOTHER WORLD 788. IMPUTATION of ADAM'S SIN. HOW 789. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. FUTURE STATE . 790. SIGNS OF GODLINESS . 791. CHRIST'S EXAMPLE. THE EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST . RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST . 792. JUSTIFICATION . 793. JUSTIFICATION . REWARDS . 794. CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. JUSTIFICATION . 795. CONDITION OF SALVATION . HOLY LIFE. PERSEVERANCE . 796. CHURCH IN HEAVEN IN A PROGRESSIVE PREPARATORY STATE . 797. That there is NO GOOD WORK BEFORE CONVERSION , and actual union with Christ, is manifest from that, Romans 7:4 , "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married unto another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." Hence we may argue that there is no lawful child brought forth before that marriage. Seeming virtues and good works before, are not so indeed; they are a spurious brood, being bastards and not children. ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMMON AND SAVING GRACE . 798. THE NECESSITY OF CHRIST'S SATISFACTION . 799. PERSEVERANCE . 800. SIGNS OF GODLINESS . 801. DEACONS , 802. PROGRESS OF REDEMPTION . 803. PROGRESS OF REDEMPTION . CHRIST'S COMING TO JUDGMENT . 804. SAINTS IN HEAVEN , in their present state of SEPARATION from the body, are acquainted with the STATE OF THE CHURCH ON EARTH . 805. MISERY OF DEVILS AND SEPARATE SOULS IS PROGRESSIVE , 806. NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH . 807. WORK OF REDEMPTION THE GREATEST OF GOD'S WORKS . 808. JUSTIFICATION by faith alone. PERSEVERANCE OF FAITH , 809. HEAVEN is not the promise of the FIRST COVENANT WITH ADAM , 810. SCRIPTURES of the Old Testament, why constituted of such parts; and particularly, why such a book as the book of JOB 811. SEPARATE SOULS OF SAINTS IN HEAVEN , 812. JUSTIFICATION is not only PARDON 813. CHRIST , why the JUDGE of the WORLD . 814. PROGRESS OF REDEMPTION . DELUGE . It was wisely determined of God that the effect of the fall should be seen in a very conspicuous and visible and universal manner, both with respect to temporal and spiritual death, before Christ came into the world to work out redemption: with respect to spiritual death, in the apostasy of the world to visible wickedness, casting off the true God and worshipping of idols, and into that gross heathenism wherein the things that appertain to spiritual death, such as man's ignorance and blindness, unreasonableness, and brutality, and slavery to the devil, etc., are remarkably conspicuous; and with respect to temporal death, in the destruction of the universal deluge, wherein the effect of the fall, in the temporal destruction of the fallen world, as the fruit of sin, and as inflicted by God's wrath was most remarkably conspicuous, much more than in the death of mankind, as it happens in the ordinary course of nature. The hand of God and his wrath were more visible in it; and the awfulness of the tendency of the fall with respect to temporal destruction was much more manifest many ways. Though all men are subject to death as it comes in the ordinary course of nature, yet the world of mankind is not so properly destroyed by death in this way; though all men die one after another, yet the world of mankind yet lives. Men do, as it were, live in their families; and death in this way, though it be universal, yet is so gradual that it is not set before us in one view, as the destruction of the world of mankind, but little is seen at a time: death not gaining the conquest, and triumphing in universal awful devastation, as in the other case, but the world still rejoices in life; and natural generation, as it were, maintaining its ground against death, yea, gaining ground of it by giving more life than death takes away, and so gradually increasing the number of living men on earth. And especially before the flood was it thus, when men's lives were so long and mankind increased and multiplied so fast. God was pleased by the flood to give one example of the mischief of the fall, the ill effects of sin in the ruin that it has exposed all mankind to, by the temporal destruction of the world at once; and a very remarkable image of their awful eternal destruction, before he accomplished the salvation of the world by Christ, and in a sense before the work of redemption of the world by Christ was begun, as it was begun after the flood in the CALLING OF ABRAHAM . 815. The world is vastly more extensively peopled now than it was before Christ. Then, very great part, and perhaps the greater part, of the inhabitants of the world were within the limits of the Roman Empire, or on its borders; but now what is confined within those limits is but a little part of the world. And 'tis very probable that the devil, who had for so many ages reigned as god of this world, and had miserably enslaved the nations of it, did after Christ's ascension, when he saw how wonderfully the gospel prevailed, lead away many people into the more remote corners of the earth. And this may account for the people of the northern cold regions of the earth where the climate seems to be almost intolerable, which perhaps can scarcely be accounted for otherwise. And particularly 'tis probable that it is hence that AMERICA 816. The following reasons seem to render it probable that FEW ARE CONVERTED IN INFANCY . 817. DEGREES OF GLORY 818. GRACE , HOW A PRINCIPLE in the HEART . 819. How EVANGELICAL OBEDIENCE influences in the AFFAIR of JUSTIFICATION . 820. JUSTIFICATION . REPENTANCE for the remission of sins is a particular kind of exercise of justifying FAITH . 821. SELF -LOVE . COMMON GRACE . SAVING GRACE . 822. DEGREES OF GLORY . PERFECTION OF HAPPINESS . 823. PERSEVERANCE . 824. SAINTS HIGHER IN GLORY THAN THE ANGELS . 825. COVENANT OF GRACE AND REDEMPTION . 826. INDEFINITE PROMISES , 827. MILLENNIUM , concerning Christ's HUMAN 828. RULE OF FAITH . SCRIPTURE . HISTORY . FATHERS . 829. JUSTIFICATION . MERIT . MORAL FITNESS . 830. FREE WILL . 831. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH , i.e. by reason of the NATURAL FITNESS 832. PREFACE TO RATIONAL ACCOUNT .