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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.”

Jonathan Edwards

No. 29.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)

God , Hope

“Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 494.

Men , God , Faith , Religion

“Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.”

Jonathan Edwards

No. 16.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)

Evil

“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad's of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.”

Jonathan Edwards

No. 1.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)

God , Pleasure , Age , Thinking

“Now shall the promises made to Christ by God the Father before the foundation of the world, the promises of the covenant of redemption, be fully accomplished. Christ shall now have perfectly obtained the joy set before Him, for which He undertook those great sufferings in His state of humiliation. Now shall all the hopes and expectations of the saints be fulfilled. The state of the church before was progressive and preparatory; but now she is arrived at her most perfect state of glory. All the glory of the church on earth is but a faint shadow of this her consummate glory in heaven.”

Jonathan Edwards

A History of the Work of Redemption including a View of Church History (1839).

God , World , Hope , Suffering

“You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.”

Jonathan Edwards book Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

Hell

“A person is said to be justified, when he is approved of God as free from the guilt of sin and its deserved punishment, and as having that righteousness belonging to him that entitles to the reward of life. That we should take the word in such a sense, and understand it as the judge’s accepting a person as having both a negative and positive righteousness belonging to him, and looking on him therefore as not only free from any obligation to punishment, but also as just and righteous, and so entitled to a positive reward, is not only most agreeable to the etymology and natural import of the word, which signifies to pass one for righteousness in judgment, but also manifestly agreeable to the force of the word as used in Scripture.”

Jonathan Edwards

Justification By Faith Alone (1738)

Life , God , Understanding , Nature

“Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 509.

Reality , Decision

“"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." -Romans iv. 5. The following things may be noted in this verse:… That justification respects a man as ungodly. This is evident by these words,—that justifieth the ungodly; which cannot imply less, than that God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness in him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature…”

Jonathan Edwards

Justification By Faith Alone (1738)

God , Faith , Personality

“If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 540.

God , Way , Business , Thinking

“Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 396.

Love , Life , Business , Heart

“Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.”

Jonathan Edwards

Diary (1723).

Pleasure

“The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.”

Jonathan Edwards

"The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), from the notebook The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature (published 1948).

World , Beauty

“A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.”

Jonathan Edwards

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 106.

Heart

“This dictate of common sense.”

Jonathan Edwards book The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

Sense

“A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.”

Jonathan Edwards book The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners

The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners (1734).

“When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.”

Jonathan Edwards

Diary (7 July 1724).

Falseness

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Jonathan Edwards

-Romans iv. 5. The following things may be noted in this verse:...That justification respects a man as ungodly. This is evident by these words,—that justifieth the ungodly; which cannot imply less, than that God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness in him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature...
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)

Faith