“IV. When those that we have formerly been conversant with are turning to God, and to his people, their example ought to… — Jonathan Edwards Friendship Copy Share Image
“There are many mansions in God’s house because heaven is intended for various degrees of honor and blessedness. Some are designed to… — Jonathan Edwards Mansions Copy Share Image
“Christ condemns the Jews, that they did not know that he was the Messiah, and that his doctrine was true, from an… — Jonathan Edwards Judaism Copy Share Image
“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;… — Jonathan Edwards Affection Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Affair Copy Share Image
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the… — Jonathan Edwards God Copy Share Image
In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping… — Jonathan Edwards Blood Copy Share Image
“Let me therefore earnestly exhort you, as you would seek your own future good hereafter, to watch against a contentious spirit.° If… — Jonathan Edwards Good day Copy Share Image
“So we read, in Heb. xiii. 17, of ministers being rulers in the house of God, “that watch for souls, as those… — Jonathan Edwards House of god Copy Share Image
“Finally, on June 22, 1750, the Council, convened to advise on the matter, recommended, by a vote of 10 to 9, the… — Jonathan Edwards 1750 Council Copy Share Image
“Thus there is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness… — Jonathan Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“Don’t do as Orpah did, who, though at first she made as though she would follow Naomi, yet when she had the… — Jonathan Edwards Ruth Copy Share Image
“A choosing of their God and their people, with a full determination and with the whole soul, is the condition of an… — Jonathan Edwards Choice Copy Share Image
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The… — Jonathan Edwards Advantage Copy Share Image
“They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell. They don’t only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the… — Jonathan Edwards Condemnation Copy Share Image
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase… — Jonathan Edwards Can do Copy Share Image
Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in… — Jonathan Edwards Advantage Copy Share Image
“God is the fountain of all blessing and prosperity, and he will be sought to for his blessing. I would therefore advise… — Jonathan Edwards Family Copy Share Image
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where… — Jonathan Edwards All things Copy Share Image
“Now they meet together in a preparatory mutable state, but then in an unchangeable state. Now sinners in the congregation meet their… — Jonathan Edwards Minister State Copy Share Image
The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the… — Jonathan Edwards Body Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more… — Jonathan Edwards Hardships Copy Share Image
“1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: “For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our… — Jonathan Edwards Conscience Copy Share Image
“I am not ashamed to own that I believe that the whole universe, heaven and earth, air and seas, and the divine… — Jonathan Edwards Bible Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit becoming an inhabitant, is a vital principle in the soul: he, acting in, upon and with the soul, becomes… — Jonathan Edwards Everlasting life Copy Share Image
All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity Copy Share Image
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited… — Jonathan Edwards Accounts Copy Share Image
“But to return to the sermons. Edwards’s sermons are constructed, in general, on a definite model. We have, first, the Exposition of… — Jonathan Edwards Doctrine Copy Share Image
“But it will not be so at their last meeting at the day of judgment; sinners, when they shall meet their minister… — Jonathan Edwards Judgment Copy Share Image
I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I… — Jonathan Edwards Affection Copy Share Image
“If the evidence of the gospel depended only on history, and such reasonings as learned men only are capable of, it would… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity Copy Share Image
The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it… — Jonathan Edwards Blow Copy Share Image
“God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly… — Jonathan Edwards Eternal life Copy Share Image
“The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in… — Jonathan Edwards Believer Copy Share Image
“It is of vast consequence how ministers discharge their office, and conduct themselves towards their people in the work of the ministry,… — Jonathan Edwards Ministers Copy Share Image
“This light is such as effectually influences the inclination, and changes the nature of the soul. It assimilates the nature to the… — Jonathan Edwards Divine nature Copy Share Image
“Because Christ was of Ruth’s posterity. The Holy Ghost thought fit to take particular notice of that marriage of Boaz with Ruth,… — Jonathan Edwards Holy ghost Copy Share Image
“Be not high-minded because of thy privileges, but fear because of thy danger. The more thou hast committed unto thee, the more… — Jonathan Edwards Fear Copy Share Image
“now I saw it was so far from any goodness in me to own myself spiritually dead and destitute of all goodness… — Jonathan Edwards Poor Trembling Copy Share Image
“Ministers and their people, while their relation continues, often meet together in this world. They are wont to meet from Sabbath to… — Jonathan Edwards Management Copy Share Image
