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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
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