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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.

Jonathan Edwards

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
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
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
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
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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Happiness Misery Ourselves Purchase Satisfaction
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
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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Finding Growth Knowledge Scripture
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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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
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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Believe God Place Possession Satan
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Courage Live Myself
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
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
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth

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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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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