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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Jonathan Edwards

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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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.

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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.
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Purchase
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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility
The material universe exists only in the mind.

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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Material Mindset
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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.

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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.
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Production Religious
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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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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Examination
Those 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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Those 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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Grace Salvation
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Profit
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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Way
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

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