Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 October 1703
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual heart discovery
As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.
wrath fire spiders
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.
unlimited certain
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
jesus people wicked
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
flying feelings ifs
If get a jump right, there's a feeling of flying.
opinion conversation mark
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
blessed grace soul
The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.
pain thinking hell
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
needs trust-in-god
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
time might way
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.
christian people envy
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
justified christ righteousness
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
gratitude greatness discovery
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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.