31st Resolution of Jonathan Edwards

  Resolved, Never to say anything at all against anybody, but when it is perfectly agreeable to the highest degree of Christian honour, and to love mankind, agreeable to the lowest humility, and sense of my own faults and failings, and agreeable to the Golden Rule; often, when I have said anything against anyone, to [...]

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Resolution 30 from Jonathan Edwards

  Resolved, To strive, every week, to be brought higher in Religion, and to a higher exercise of grace, than I was the week before. In other words, Edwards wanted to obey 2 Peter 3:17-18 — “You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless [...]

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Resolution # 29 from Jonathan Edwards

  Resolved, Never to count that a prayer, nor let that pass as a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope that God will accept. Edwards wants his prayers to be prayed with a strong sense of expectation that [...]

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The 27th Resolution of Jonathan Edwards

  Resolved, Never willfully to omit any thing , except the omission be for the glory of God; and to frequently examine my omissions. Sin is both by commission (doing what we shouldn’t do) and omission (not doing what we should do). Edwards is rightfully giving due attention to what he wants to avoid as [...]

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Jonathan Edwards’ 26th Resolution

Resolved, To cast away such things, as I find do abate my assurance. This resolution continues the thought of the 25th resolution which deals with Edwards doing everything he can to root out whatever causes him to doubt God’s love for Him. He says he will “cast way” whatever my hinder his assurance in that [...]

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Jonathan Edwards – Resolution # 25

  Resolved, To examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God: and to direct all my forces against it. May I do the same thing – carefully and constantly!

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Resolution # 24 from Edwards

Resolved, Whenever I do any conspicuously evil action, to trace it back, till I come to the original cause; and then, both carefully endeavour to do so no more, and to fight and pray with all my might against the original (origin) of it. Jonathan Edwards took the sin in his own life very seriously. [...]

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The 23rd Resolution of Jonathan Edwards

  Here it is: Resolved, Frequently to take some deliberate action, which seems most unlikely to be done, for the glory of God, and trace it back to the original intention, designs and ends of it; and if I find it not to be for God’s glory, to repute it as a breach of the [...]

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Edwards’ 22nd Resolution

Here is the 22nd of 70 resolutions made by Jonathan Edwards: Resolved, To endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in another world, as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigour, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought [...]

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Edwards’ 21st Resolution

Here is the 21st resolution, of 70, made by the greatest theologian and mind ever produced in the United States, Jonathan Edwards: Resolved, Never to do anything, which, if I should see in another, I should count a just occasion to despise him for, or to think any way the more meanly of him. What [...]

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