The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards: President of the College of New JerseyAndrew Wright, 1804 - 372 pages |
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... these things , and tell the world how eminently great , wise , holy , and useful President Ed- wards was ; but rather to inform in what way , and by what means , he attained to such an uncommon stock of knowledge and holiness ; and how ...
... these things , and tell the world how eminently great , wise , holy , and useful President Ed- wards was ; but rather to inform in what way , and by what means , he attained to such an uncommon stock of knowledge and holiness ; and how ...
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... them , he has noted in his Diary which he then kept ; as well as many other observations and rules , which re- lated to his own exercises and conduct . And as these refolutions , together with the things noted in his Dia- ry , may ...
... them , he has noted in his Diary which he then kept ; as well as many other observations and rules , which re- lated to his own exercises and conduct . And as these refolutions , together with the things noted in his Dia- ry , may ...
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... these things . ' Tis not to care about them , to depend upon them , to afflict ourselves much with fears of lofing them , nor please ourselves with ex- pectation of obtaining them , or hope of the continuance of them . At night made the ...
... these things . ' Tis not to care about them , to depend upon them , to afflict ourselves much with fears of lofing them , nor please ourselves with ex- pectation of obtaining them , or hope of the continuance of them . At night made the ...
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... thing am I ! What a poor , inconfiftent , what a mif- erable wretch , without the affistance of God's Spirit ! While ... these three things ; I have not been watchful enough over my appetite in eating and drinking ; in rifing too late a ...
... thing am I ! What a poor , inconfiftent , what a mif- erable wretch , without the affistance of God's Spirit ! While ... these three things ; I have not been watchful enough over my appetite in eating and drinking ; in rifing too late a ...
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... those that are innocent , yea common infirmities of men , and many other fuch like things . O that God would help me to difcern all the flaws and defects of my temper and converfation , and help me in the difficult work of amending them ...
... those that are innocent , yea common infirmities of men , and many other fuch like things . O that God would help me to difcern all the flaws and defects of my temper and converfation , and help me in the difficult work of amending them ...
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Page 38 - Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Page 69 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 224 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 227 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Page 113 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 215 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 352 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 27 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever, Amen. As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense...
Page 38 - This grace, that appeared so calm and sweet, appeared also great above the heavens. The person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent, with an excellency great enough to swallow up all thought and conception, which continued, as near as I can judge, about an hour, which kept me, the greater part of the time, in a flood of tears and weeping aloud.
Page 327 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.