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Jonathan Edwards – Mount Zion

This city of Jerusalem is therefore called the holy city; and it was the greatest type of the church of Christ in all the Old Testament. It was redeemed by David, the captain of the hosts of Israel,...

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Jonathan Edwards – More Blessed Than Mary

How wonderful a privilege did God bestow on the blessed virgin Mary in making her the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator of the world, and the Savior of sinners and the Judge of...

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Jonathan Edwards – Resolutions and the Spirit of God

Wednesday, Jan. 2. Dull. I find, by experience, that, let me make resolutions, and do what I will, with never so many inventions, it is all nothing, and to no purpose at all, without the motions of...

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Jonathan Edwards – Sin Is Infinite Evil

Our obligation to love, honor and obey any being is in proportion to his loveliness, honor and authority. Therefore, sin against God, being a violation of infinite obligations, must be a crime...

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Jonathan Edwards – The Primary Inducement to Humble Love

The gospel yet further tends to lead us to humble exercises of love as it leads us to love Christ as one that was crucified for our sins. Christ’s being crucified is a great argument for the humility...

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Jonathan Edwards – Saving Grace Is More Precious Than Grace Gifts

Hence we may argue Fifth, from the infinitely more excellent fruit of that [saving] grace, which is the effect of the ordinary gifts of the Spirit, than of the extraordinary gifts, since grace is...

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Jonathan Edwards – Men’s Proneness to Extreme Stupidity

But if we consider how men generally conduct themselves in things on which their well-being infinitely more depends, how vast is the diversity! In these things how cold, lifeless, and dilatory! With...

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Jonathan Edwards – A Report of Revival in New England

Many have been remarkably engaged to watch, and strive, and fight against sin; to cast out every idol, sell all for Christ, give up themselves entirely to God, and make a sacrifice of every worldly...

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Jonathan Edwards – A Report of Revival in New England (2)

Multitudes in New England have lately been brought to a new and great conviction of the truth and certainty of the things of the gospel; to a firm persuasion that Christ Jesus is the Son of God, and...

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Jonathan Edwards – The Resurrection Power of Christ Exerted in Our Hearts

Gracious affections arise from those operations and influences which are spiritual, and that the inward principle from whence they flow, is something divine, a communication of God, a participation of...

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Jonathan Edwards – How the Resurrection Was Part of the Success of Christ’s...

Indeed Christ’s resurrection (and so his ascension) was part of the success of what Christ did and suffered in his humiliation. For though Christ did not properly purchase redemption for himself, yet...

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Jonathan Edwards – The Resurrection of Christ is the Most Joyful Event That...

This resurrection of Christ is the most joyful event that ever came to pass; because hereby Christ rested from the great and difficult work of purchasing redemption, and received God’s testimony, that...

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Jonathan Edwards – God Designed to Restore All the Ruins of the Fall

God’s design was perfectly to restore all the ruins of the fall, so far as concerns the elect part of the world, by his Son; and therefore we read of the restitution of all things. Acts iii. 21. “Whom...

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Jonathan Edwards – God Communicates His Own Happiness To Us

Another part of God’s fulness which he communicates, is his happiness. This happiness consists in enjoying and rejoicing in himself; and so does also the creature’s happiness. It is a participation of...

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Jonathan Edwards – The Excellency of Christ in the Incarnation

1703-1758. Reformed Preacher and Theologian in New England. Having thus shown wherein there is an admirable conjunction of excellencies in Jesus Christ, I now proceed, Secondly, To show how this...

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Jonathan Edwards – The Joy of the Resurrection

1703-1758. Reformed Preacher and Theologian in New England. [The] resurrection of Christ is the most joyful event that ever came to pass; because hereby Christ rested from the great and difficult work...

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