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

Jonathan Edwards

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
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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Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Better End Possible Respect Time
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Faith God Right Sin
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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Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Care Examination Force God Love
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
Resolved, 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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Act Death God Myself
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Myself Reason

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