130. PELAGIANISM. That there should be an immediate operation of God’s Spirit upon the hearts of the godly, to beget and exercise grace, seems much the most reasonable to me. For seeing man is made for such an end that his business is wholly with God, seeing he is made for nothing but to pay [...]
a rare, fascinating glimpse into Edwards’s thoughts on music. 188. HEAVEN. The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of [...]
793. JUSTIFICATION. REWARDS. Believers may be heirs of eternal life prior to their good works. They may have a right by Christ’s righteousness received by faith that may be prior to any regard to anything in them as a good work, or any virtue or lovely qualification in them; and yet [it] may be the [...]
651. ONE GOD. UNITY OF THE GODHEAD. It appears that there is but one creator and governor of the world, by considering how the world is created and governed. The world is evidently so created and governed as to answer but one design in all the different parts of it, and in all ages; and [...]
16. FOREKNOWLEDGE. This is most certain, that if there are any things that are so contingent that there is an equal possibility both of their being or not being, so that they may be or they may not be; God foreknows from all eternity that they may be, and also that they may not be. [...]
97. HAPPINESS. As [to what] was said in No. 96, that no being could be happy without the exercise of this inclination of communicating his happiness. Now the happiness of society consists in this, in the mutual communications of each other’s happiness; neither does it satisfy in society only to receive the other’s happiness without [...]
10. PASTORS. This is certain and evident concerning its belonging to the people to choose their own pastor, that it is either the people’s part to choose with what food they will be fed—let what will be offered them, ’tis their business to judge whether it be best for them to receive it in as [...]
dd. SCRIPTURE. Some may ask why the Scripture expresses things so unintelligibly. It tells us of Christ living in us, of our being united to him, of being the same spirit, and many other such like expressions. Why doth it not call these things directly by the intelligible names of those things that lie hid [...]
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, I thought it would be appropriate to hear from Jonathan Edwards on something celestial. This is an interesting miscellany in which he muses on comets as proof that the world and all that is material could not have been from eternity, but must [...]
77. CONVERSION. What is held by some, that none can be in a state of salvation before they have particularly acted a reception of the Lord Jesus Christ for a Savior, and that there cannot be sanctification one moment before the exercise of faith, as they have described it, cannot be true, as they explain [...]
