Earlier today, the Wikipedia entry for Jonathan Edwards contained this little gem, which has now been removed: His sermons such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” inspired his parishioners to coin what has now become an American colloquialism: “Ain’t no sermons like a J. Edwards sermon, ’cause dem J. Edwards sermon don’ [...]

354. CONVICTION, HUMILIATION. Christ himself endured great trouble and a sense of God’s wrath before his exaltation and the enjoyment of God’s love. The people of Israel endured cruel bondage and were forty years in a desolate wilderness before they came to the pleasant land. As men are in two exceeding different states, first a [...]

175. FUTURE STATE. God, if he made the world, he undoubtedly ordered all things wisely in it. But he has made man and placed him in such circumstances, that he has made [it] his prudence with all his might and with all possible vigor to be providing for a future state. For he has made [...]