A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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