Frasi di Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards è stato un filosofo, teologo calvinista e pastore evangelico statunitense.

✵ 5. Ottobre 1703 – 22. Marzo 1758   •   Altri nomi جوناثان إدواردز, Ҷонатан Эдвардс, جاناتان ادواردز, Ionathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards: Frasi in inglese

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

Jonathan Edwards libro Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

“I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.”

Jonathan Edwards libro The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

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

"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).

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

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

“This dictate of common sense.”

Jonathan Edwards libro The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

“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...
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)

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