The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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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.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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