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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

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.
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Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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God Live Myself Resolution Willing
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Evil Exception Goodness Reality Talk
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
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
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Business Chief God Life Seek
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Creation Display End Glorify Himself
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
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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Action God Influence Life Spirit
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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Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State

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