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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIt is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThose 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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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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSurely 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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSNothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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