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 EDWARDSWe are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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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