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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

Jonathan Edwards

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Sin Small Treason
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Future Glory Grace Inheritance Morning
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
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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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
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
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith God Nature Power
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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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Heart Life Love Principle

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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

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