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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
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East Windsor
Connecticut
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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 beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.
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