A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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