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If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.

— Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

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He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has.

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Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."

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