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Origine: A careful & strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of the will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue & vice, reward & punishment, praise & blame...
“How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?”
Origine: Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
Letter to Deborah Hatheway (1741), in Letters and Personal Writings (1998), edited by George S. Claghorn, Vol. 16.
“Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.”
No. 14.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.”
Jonathan Edwards libro Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Origine: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Origine: The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings
The Mind (begun in September 1723; not completed).
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 541.
“He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has.”
Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746), PART II : Showing What Are No Certain Signs That Religious Affections Are Truly Gracious, Or That They Are Not, Ch. 11: Nothing can be certainly known of the nature of Religious Affections, that they much dispose persons with their mouths to praise and glorify God. <!-- (1831 edition), p. 194, also in Complete Christian Classics (1999), Vol. 1, p. 365 -->
Contesto: !-- He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has. A true Christian has ten times more to do with his heart and its corruptions, than a hypocrite: and the sins of his heart and practice, appear to him in their blackness; they look dreadful; and it often appears a very mysterious thing, that any grace can be consistent with such corruption, or should be in such a heart. But a false hope hides corruption, covers it all over, and the hypocrite looks clean and bright in his own eyes.
--> There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of which are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. These two kinds of hypocrites, Mr. Shepard, in his Exposition of the Parable of the Ten Virgins, distinguishes by the names of legal and evangelical hypocrites; and often speaks of the latter as the worst. And it is evident that the latter are commonly by far the most confident in their hope, and with the most difficulty brought off from it: I have scarcely known the instance of such a one, in my life, that has been undeceived.
“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
Origine: The Religious Affections
“Resolved, always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.”
No. 69.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
