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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Jonathan Edwards

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Action God Influence Life Spirit
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
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.
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Business Heart Life Love Principle
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Breathe Expression Life Natural Prayer
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Better End Possible Respect Time
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Beautiful Holy Important World
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
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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Happiness Misery Ourselves Purchase Satisfaction

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

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