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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Jonathan Edwards

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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Faith God Nature Power
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
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Beginning Glory Grace Perfection
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Future Glory Grace Inheritance Morning
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.
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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
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.
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Care Examination Force God Love
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Live Lose Moments Myself Possible
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
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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Break God Healing Himself Misery Peace Wound
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
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.
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God Ground Preparation Trust Way Yourself
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself

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