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Gilbert Tennent sermons 17, "De violatione Federis" (On the violation of God's covenant), 1744

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Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764, and Pa.) Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia. Gilbert Tennent Sermons 17, "de Violatione Federis" (on the Violation of God's Covenant), 1744. . 1744. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/PHS.TennentSermons017.

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Tennent, 1., & Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, P. (1744). Gilbert Tennent sermons 17, "De violatione Federis" (On the violation of God's covenant), 1744. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/PHS.TennentSermons017.

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Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764, and Pa.) Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia. Gilbert Tennent Sermons 17, "de Violatione Federis" (on the Violation of God's Covenant), 1744. 1744. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/PHS.TennentSermons017.

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  • Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) was an Irish-American Presbyterian clergyman, and one of the leaders of the Great Awakening. This sermon follows "De federe operum (On the covenant of works)" and "De federe nature (On the nature of the covenant)." Tennent begins this third piece on God's covenant with Adam by referring to Genesis 3:1-7. "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." From dates noted on the manuscript, it appears Tennent wrote this sermon in 1744, and delivered it again in 1747, 1754, and 1758.
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  • 24 pages
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