The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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