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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Jonathan Edwards

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
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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Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Finding Growth Knowledge Scripture
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
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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Evil Exception Goodness Reality Talk
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk
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
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Believe Forever God Price Sacrifice
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.
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Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible

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