Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 October 1703
CountryUnited States of America
christian indifference foe
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
two redemption debt
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
heart broken giving
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
years done months
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
gratitude views heaven
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
jewels delight holiness
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.
heart views looks
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite . . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
spirit great-work supplication
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
rejoice creatures exalted
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
liberty ought
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
spring heart saint
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
rain son light
We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.
men wicked hell
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
christian two giving
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.