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 EDWARDSIntend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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