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But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

Jonathan Edwards

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

Jonathan Edwards

The apostle Paul is abundant in teaching, that 'we are justified by faith alone, without the works of the law!' There is no one doctrine that he insists so much upon, and that he handles with so much distinctness, explaining, giving reasons, and answering objections.

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

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Born: October 5, 1703

Died: March 22, 1758 (aged 54)

Bio: Jonathan Edwards was a revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Like most of the Puritans, he held to the Reformed theology.

Known for:

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
Religious Affections (1746)
The Freedom of the Will (1754)
The Life of David Brainerd (1749)

Most used words:

god, christ, faith, resolved, love, glory, righteousness, christian, true, soul, humble, sweet, hope, heaven, heart

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