Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThose 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.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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