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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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