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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.

Jonathan Edwards

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Myself Reason
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Important Knowledge Ourselves
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
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 EDWARDS

Happiness Misery Ourselves Purchase Satisfaction
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Design God Happiness Unknown
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Believe Forever God Price Sacrifice
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Angry Human Motion Suffering
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
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

Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Greatness Nature
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Himself Known True
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
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
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Live Myself Resolution Willing
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Holy Important World

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.

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