With just a few days left until Christmas, it’s always good to take time to remember the true meaning of the holiday. In this week’s installment of Miscellany Mondays, we have a brief, yet profound, statement on the meaning and purpose of the incarnation of Christ. The idea of Christ’s communion with his [...]

This week brings one of Edwards’s earliest entries in the miscellanies project. It is a beautiful contemplation of the benefits a Christian gains in his being united to Christ by faith, a union which purchases all things for the believer. This is an early glimpse into the poetic timbre that many of Edwards’s [...]

When preached in August of 1733, Edwards’s sermon on Matthew 16:17, later published as A Divine and Supernatural Light, did not include the following passage. When published in 1734, however, “Miscellany 489″ was included in the first part of the doctrine section of the sermon. The ideas found in this entry are central [...]

Ok, so it’s not really Monday.  As I said in the previous post, yesterday this site was migrated to a new domain and that delayed the posting of Miscellany Mondays on Monday.  So this week Miscellany Mondays is on Tuesday.  You can thank me later for blowing your mind.
This week’s selection is from roughly the [...]

943. Justification. Faith. Repentance.
Repentance is often spoken [of] as the special condition of remission of sins. But yet ’tis evident by the Scripture that remission of sins is by faith in Jesus Christ, and that this is the special condition of remission of sins, by which we become entitled to this great privilege; [as appears] [...]