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1 " The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth! "
― Jonathan Edwards , The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume 1
2 " greatest concern is not for your health, or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul. Though "
3 " The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts. "
4 " This glorious Person came down from heaven to be ‘the Light of the world,’ that by him the beauty of the Deity might shine forth, in the brightest and fullest manner, to the children of men. "
5 " the presbyterian way has ever appeared to me most agreeable to the word of God, and the reason and nature of things; "
6 " Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation; "
7 " our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed. "
8 " there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it. "
9 " Because if the Will be already inclined, before it exerts its own sovereign power on itself, then its inclination is not wholly owing to itself: "
10 " What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form? "
11 " Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation; "
12 " His aim, in all his investigations, was the discovery and the defence of truth. "
13 " In order to this there must be something besides a general tendency to action; there must also be a particular tendency to that individual action.—If it should be asked, why the soul of man uses its activity, in such a manner as it does; "
14 " though we are not the efficient causes of our own acts of will, yet they may be either virtuous or vicious; "
15 " But if we admit that any event may come into existence by chance, and without a cause, the existence of the world may be accounted for in this same way; and atheism is established.—Mr. "
16 " The Indian languages are extremely barbarous and barren, and very ill fitted for communicating things moral and divine, or even things speculative and abstract. "
17 " in order to act freely, we must act by chance, which is absurd, and what no man will dare to avow. "
18 " They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated. "
19 " Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners: "
20 " but his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge. "
