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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God and to direct all my forces against it.
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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To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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