Quote from Safety, Fullness, and Sweet Refreshment In Christ-a sermon by Jonathan Edwards

I love Jonathan Edwards sermon titles.

They typically contain more theology in them then what you would find in the entirety of the sermon from an American Evangelical church.

I found this great quote some years ago.

I still go back to it time and again, as it is very good for my soul to read things like this.

I would have liked to have been present in his church when Edwards preached this:

“Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyments of God’s love. He delivers from inward tumults and inward pain, from that guilt of conscience which is as a worm gnawing within, and he gives delight and inward glory. He brings us out of a wilderness of pits, and drought, and fiery flying spirits; and he brings us into a pleasant land, a land flowing from milk and honey. He delivers us out of prison, and lifts us off from the dunghill, and he sets us among princes, and causes us to inherit the throne of glory. Wherefore, if anyone is weary, if any is in prison, if anyone is in captivity, if anyone is in the wilderness, let him come to the blessed Jesus, who is as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Delay not, arise and come away.”