Thoughts on Revival
“It is the mature fruit which comes afterwards, and not the beautiful colours and smell of blossoms, that we must judge by” -Jonathan Edwards
There are many things in the word of God, showing that when God remarkably appears in any great work for his church…it is a most dangerous thing, and highly provoking to God, to be slow and backward to acknowledge and honour God in the work.
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| — | Jonathan Edwards (Thoughts On The Revival) |
It is evident, by both Scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independantly glorious and happy
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| — | Jonathan Edwards |
The greatest injuries recieved from men are justly and even kindly ordered of God, and so be far from any ruffle or tumult of mind on account of them.
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| — | Jonathan Edwards |
The knowledge which the saints have of God’s beauty and glory in this world, and those holy affections that arise from it, are of the same nature and kind with what the saints are the subjects of in heaven, differing only in degree and circumstance. What God gives them here, is a foretaste of heavenly
happiness, and an earnest of their future inheritance.
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| — | Jonathan Edwards |
If the great things of religion are rightly understood, they will affect the heart. The reason why men are not affected by such infinitely great, important, glorious, and wonderful things, as they often hear and read of in the word of God, is, undoubtedly, because they are blind; if they were not so, it would be impossible, and utterly inconsistent with human nature, that their hearts should be otherwise than strongly impressed, and greatly moved by such things.
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O what cause have we, with exulting hearts, to agree to give glory to him who thus rides forth in the chariot of his salvation
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It is astonishing to see the alteration that there is in some towns, where before was but little appearance of religion.
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| — | Jonathan Edwards (remarking on the Great Awakening in his neighborhood) |
