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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

Jonathan Edwards

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Intend Learning Teacher
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Expectation Forever God Himself
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Heart Life Love Principle
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Fear God Need Trust Yourself
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Revenge Solution
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Future Glory Grace Inheritance Morning
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Live Lose Moments Myself Possible
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Angry Human Motion Suffering
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Agreement God Ideas Truth

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