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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

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
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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God Hell Man Moments Pleasure
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
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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Believe God Place Possession Satan
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Creation Display End Glorify Himself
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.
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Finding Growth Knowledge Scripture
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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God Live Myself Resolution Willing
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Education Effect Family Grace Order Prosperity
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
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
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Best Each Other Expression Music Perfection Way
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Courage Live Myself

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