Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758) was unquestionably one of the greatest theologians in the history of Christianity, as well as a man who was endowed with a principal portion of God's Spirit, just like his bosom friend and fellow-labourer, George Whitefield. Edwards is perhaps best known for his special unction and leading in the Great Awakening in New England, which took place largely under his and Whitefield's preaching. Like Whitefield and virtually every man who has ever been effectually used of God, Edwards was Calvinistic in doctrine, and his works show how soundly he defended such scriptural truths as election, predestination, and so forth. Perhaps no sermon in the history of Christianity is as famous as his Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God, a sermon which has been hailed as the greatest sermon ever preached outside of the Bible. Jonathan Edwards' Complete Works are published by both Banner Of Truth Trust and Hendrickson Publishers, and they are a literal gold mine of spiritual enrichment.

"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"They hear indeed that there are but few saved, and that the greater part of men that have died heretofore are gone to hell; but each one imagines that he lays out matters better for his own escape than others have done." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"God has laid himself under no OBLIGATION, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose. It is true, that judgment against your evil works has not been executed hitherto; the floods of God’s vengeance have been withheld; but your guilt in the mean time is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"Now God stands ready to pity you; this is a day of mercy; you may cry now with some encouragement of obtaining mercy. But when once the day of mercy is past, your most lamentable and dolorous cries and shrieks will be in vain; you will be wholly lost and thrown away of God, as to any regard to your welfare... If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing you the least regard or favour, that instead of that, he will only tread you under foot." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"It is EVERLASTING wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all... But this is the dismal case of every soul in this congregation that has not been born again, however moral and strict, sober and religious, they may otherwise be." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God." Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

"The Spirit of God, in those that have sound and solid religion, is a spirit of powerful holy affection; and therefore, God is said 'to have given the Spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind,' 2 Timothy 1:7. And such, when they receive the Spirit of God, in his sanctifying and saving influences, are said to be baptized with the Holy Ghost, and with fire; by reason of the power and fervor of those exercises the Spirit of God excites in their hearts." Religious Affectations

"When a soul is drawn to God in true conversion, fire conies down from God out of heaven, in which the heart is offered in sacrifice, and the soul is baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire." Christians A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation, A Peculiar People

"We are dependent on Christ the Son of God, as he is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. We are dependent on the Father, who has given us Christ, and made him to be these things to us. We are dependent on the Holy Ghost, for it is of him that we are in Christ Jesus; it is the Spirit of God that gives faith in him, whereby we receive him, and close with him." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"There is an absolute and universal dependence of the redeemed on God. The nature and contrivance of our redemption is such, that the redeemed are in every thing directly, immediately, and entirely dependent on God: they are dependent on him for all, and are dependent on him every way." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"As it is God that gives, so it is God that accepts the Savior. He gives the purchaser, and he affords the thing purchased." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"It is of God that we have the Holy Scriptures; they are his Word." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"Those that are called and sanctified are to attribute it alone to the good pleasure of God’s goodness, by which they are distinguished. He is sovereign, and hath mercy on whom he will have mercy." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption. We are dependent on the power of God to convert us, and give faith in Jesus Christ, and the new nature. It is a work of creation." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"The fallen creature cannot attain to true holiness, but by being created again... It is a raising from the dead." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"All we have, wisdom, the pardon of sin, deliverance from hell, acceptance into God’s favor, grace and holiness, true comfort and happiness, eternal life and glory, is from God by a Mediator; and this Mediator is God; which Mediator we have an absolute dependence upon, as he through whom we receive all. So that here is another way wherein we have our dependence on God for all good. God not only gives us the Mediator, and accepts his mediation, and of his power and grace bestows the things purchased by the Mediator; but he the Mediator is God." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"Yea God is both the purchaser and the price; for Christ, who is God, purchased these blessings for us, by offering up himself as the price of our salvation. He purchased eternal life by the sacrifice of himself." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"The saints have both their spiritual excellency and blessedness by the gift of the Holy Ghost, and his dwelling in them." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"Thus God has given us the Redeemer, and it is by him that our good is purchased. So God is the Redeemer and the price; and he also is the good purchased. So that all that we have is of God, and through him, and in him." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"Hence those doctrines and schemes of divinity that are in any respect opposite to such an absolute and universal dependence on God, derogate from his glory, and thwart the design of our redemption... Now whatever scheme is inconsistent with our entire dependence on God for all, and of having all of him, through him, and in him, it is repugnant to the design and tenor of the gospel, and robs it of that which God accounts its luster and glory." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"There is included in the nature of faith a sensible acknowledgment of absolute dependence on God." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"It is necessary in order to saving faith, that man should be emptied of himself, be sensible that he is wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"Hath any man hope that he is converted, and sanctified, and that his mind is endowed with true excellency and spiritual beauty? that his sins are forgiven, and he received into God’s favor, and exalted to the honor and blessedness of being his child, and an heir of eternal life? let him give God all the glory; who alone makes him to differ from the worst of men in this world, or the most miserable of the damned in hell." God Glorified In Man's Dependence

"God is the author of all knowledge and understanding whatsoever. He is the author of all moral prudence, and of the skill that men have in their secular business."  A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"There is such a thing as a spiritul and divine light, immediately imparted to the soul by God, of a different nature from any that is obtained by natural means... We read in Scripture of many that were greatly affected with things of a religious nature, who yet are there represented as wholly graceless, and many of them very ill men. A person therefore may have affecting views of the things of religion, and yet be very destitute of spiritual light. Flesh and blood may be the author of this; one man may give another an affecting view of divine things with but common assistance; but God alone can give a spiritual discovery of them."  A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"The mind of man is naturally full of prejudices against divine truth."  A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"The notion that there is a Christ, and that Christ is holy and gracious, is conveyed to the mind by the Word of God, but the sense of the excellency of Christ by reason of that holiness and grace, is nevertheless immediately the work of the Holy Spirit." A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"There is a discovery of the divine superlative glory and excellency of God and Christ peculiar to the saints; and this is as immediately from God as light from the sun, and it is the immediate effect of his power and will." A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"Believing in Christ and spiritually seeing him are parallel... he that has had a clear sight of the spiritual glory of Christ may say, 'I have not followed cunningly devised fables, but have been an eyewitness of his majesty,' upon as good grounds as the Apostle Peter, when he had respect to the outward glory of Christ that he had seen. " A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"Upon what account should it seem unreasonable that there should be any immediate communication between God and the creature? It is strange that men should make any matter of difficulty of it." A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"Yea, the least glimpse of the glory of God in the face of Christ doth more exalt and ennoble the soul than all the knowledge of those that have the greatest speculative understanding in divinity without grace... This light, and this only, will bring the soul to a saving close with Christ." A Divine And Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted To The Soul By The Spirit Of God, Shown To Be Both A Scriptural And Rational Doctrine

"Christ has told us that strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. There have been but few in all ages of the world. Many seek; and many hope that they shall obtain. There are but few that intend to be damned; while many hope that they shall some way or other find means to escape eternal misery. But after all, there are but few saved." The Wisdom Of God

"One end of God in revealing his design or contrivance for redemption, as he hath so fully and gloriously done by Jesus Christ, is that the angels in heaven may behold the glory of his wisdom by it." The Wisdom Of God

"The saints, in all their spiritual transactions with God, act by the Spirit: or rather, it is the Spirit of God that acts in them; they are the temples of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit dwelling in them is their principle of action in all their transactings with God." The Wisdom Of God

"Christ, by thus appearing in mean and low outward circumstances in the world, has poured contempt upon all worldly wealth and glory; and has taught us to despise it." The Wisdom Of God

"All God's works praise him, and his glory shines brightly from them all: but as some starts differ from others in glory, so the glory of God shines brighter in some of his works than in others. And amongst all these, the work of redemption is like the sun in his strength." The Wisdom Of God

"Nothing makes no opposition to the creating power of God - but in redemption, the divine power meets with and overcomes great opposition." The Wisdom Of God

"Never did God so manifest his hatred of sin as in the death and sufferings of his only-begotten Son." The Wisdom Of God

"It was a sufficient testimony of God's abhorrence against even the greatest wickedness, that Christ, the eternal Son of God, died for it. Nothing can show God's infinite abhorrence of any wickedness more than this." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"If damnation be justice, then mercy may choose its own object." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"It is a part of the glory of God's mercy, that it is a sovereign mercy." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"When God says, "Let there be light in the soul of such an one," it is a word of infinite power and sovereign grace." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to him, who maketh them to differ from others." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"God insists that his sovereignty be acknowledged by us, even in this great matter, a matter which so nearly and infinitely concerns us, as our own eternal salvation. This is the stumbling-block on which thousands fall and perish; and if they go on contending with God about his sovereignty, it will be their eternal ruin. It is absolutely necessary that we should submit to God as our absolute sovereign, and the sovereign over our souls, as one who may have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and harden whom he will." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"Many hear that God's mercy is infinite, and therefore think that if they delay seeking salvation for the present, and seek it hereafter, that God will bestow his grace upon them. But consider, that though God's grace is sufficient, yet he is sovereign, and will use his own pleasure whether he will save you or not. If you put off salvation till hereafter, salvation will not be in your power. It will be as a sovereign God pleases, whether you shall obtain it or not." God's Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Men

"It is absurd to suppose, that God is obliged to keep every creature from sinning and exposing himself to an adequate punishment. For if so, then it will follow, that there can be no such thing as a moral government of God over reasonable creatures ; and it would be an absurdity for God to give commands; for he himself would be the party bound to see to the performance, and there could be no use of promises or threatenings. But if God may leave a creature to sin, and to expose himself to punishment, then it is much fitter and better that the matter should be ordered by wisdom, [as to] who should justly lie exposed by sin to punishment, and who not; than that it be left to come to pass by confused chance. It is unworthy of the Governor of the world to leave things to chance; it belongs to him to govern all things by wisdom." Divine Sovereignty

"There is no hindering God from being sovereign, and acting as such. He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." Divine Sovereignty

"In objecting and quarrelling about the righteousness of God's laws and threatenings, and his sovereign dispensations towards you and others, you oppose his divinity, you show your ignorance of his divine greatness and excellency, and that you cannot bear that he should have divine honour. It is from low, mean thoughts of God, that you do in your minds oppose his sovereignty, that you are not sensible how dangerous your conduct is; and what an audacious thing it is for such a creature as man to strive with his Maker. What poor creatures are you, that you should set up yourselves for judges over the Most High; that you should take it upon you to call God to an account; that you should say to the great Jehovah, what dost thou? and that you should pass sentence against him! If you knew that he is God, you would not act in this manner." Divine Sovereignty

"It is from mean thoughts of God that you are not convinced that you have by your sins deserved his eternal wrath and curse. If you had any proper sense of the infinite majesty, greatness, and holiness of God, you would see, that to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, and there to have no rest day nor night, is not a punishment more than equal to the demerit of sin. You would not have so good a thought of yourselves; you would not be so clean and pure in your own eyes; you would see what vile, unworthy, hell-deserving creatures you are." Divine Sovereignty

"It is from little thoughts of God, that you quarrel against his justice in the condemnation of sinners, from the doctrine of original sin. It must be because you do not know him to be God, and will not allow him to be sovereign." Divine Sovereignty

"It is from mean thoughts of God, that you contend with him, because he bestows grace on some, and not on others. Thus God doth: he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy; he takes one, and leaves another, of those who are in like circumstances; as it is said of Jacob and Esau, while they were not yet born, and had done neither good nor evil... Therefore consider what you do in quarrelling with God, and opposing his sovereignty. Consider with whom it is you contend." Divine Sovereignty

"We are to consider that the end for which God pours out his Spirit, is to make men holy, and not to make them politicians." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"If there be really a hell of such dreadful and never-ending torments, as is generally supposed, of which multitudes are in great danger - and into which the greater part of men in Christian countries do actually, from generation to generation fall, for want of a sense of its terribleness, and so for want of taking due care to avoid it - then why is it not proper for those who have the care of souls to take great pains to make men sensible of it?" Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"If we who have the care of souls, knew what hell was, had seen the state of the damned, or by any other means had become sensible how dreadful their case was - and at the same time knew that the greater part of men went thither, and saw our hearers not sensible of their danger - it would be morally impossible for us to avoid most earnestly setting before them the dreadfulness of that misery, and their great exposedness to it, and even to cry aloud to them." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"The devil has ever shown a mortal spite and hatred towards that holy book the Bible: he has done all in his power to extinguish that light; and to draw men off from it: he knows it to be that light by which his kingdom of darkness is to be overthrown. He has had for many ages experience of its power to defeat his purposes, and baffle his designs: it is his constant plague. It is the main weapon which Michael uses in his war with him: it is the sword of the Spirit, that pierces him and conquers him." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"The nature of a truly Christian love... is love that arises from apprehension of the wonderful riches of the free grace and sovereignty of God's love to us in Christ Jesus; being attended with a sense of our own utter unworthiness, as in ourselves the enemies and haters of God and Christ, and with a renunciation of all our own excellency and righteousness." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"There is no kind of sins so hurtful and dangerous to the souls of men, as those committed against the Holy Ghost... When the Holy Spirit is much poured out, and men's lusts, lukewarmness, and hypocrisy are reproached by its powerful operations, then is the most likely time of any, for this sin to be committed... Those who maliciously oppose and reproach this work, and call it the work of the devil, want but one thing of the unpardonable sin, and that is, doing it against inward conviction." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"A season as proves an acceptable year, and a time of great favour to them who accept and improve it, proves a day of vengeance to others." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"Pride is the worst viper in the heart; it is the first sin that ever entered into the universe, lies lowest of all in the foundation of the whole building of sin, and is the most secret, deceitful, and unsearchable in its ways of working, of any lusts whatever." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"The spiritual and eternal life of the soul consists in the grace of the Spirit, which God bestows only on his favourites and dear children... To have grace in the heart, is a higher privilege than the blessed Virgin herself had, in having the body of the second person in the Trinity conceived in her womb, by the power of the Highest overshadowing her." Distinguishing Marks Of A Work Of The Spirit Of God

"Christian divinity, properly so called, is not evident by the light of nature; it depends on revelation." Christian Knowledge

"It is impossible that any one should see the truth or excellency of any doctrine of the gospel, who knows not what that doctrine is." Christian Knowledge

"God gave man the faculty of understanding, chiefly, that he might understand divine things." Christian Knowledge

"Whether God has decreed all things that ever came to pass or not, all that own the being of a God own that he knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident, that if he knows all things beforehand, he either doth approve of them, or he doth not approve of them; that is, he either is willing they should be, or he is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be, is to decree them." Miscellaneous Observations

"God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness to him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature." Justification By Faith Alone

"God of his sovereign grace is pleased, in his dealings with the sinner, so to regard one that has no righteousness, that the consequence shall be the same as if he had." Justification By Faith Alone

"Faith is a fruit of the Spirit, and not the cause of a spiritual experience." Justification By Faith Alone

"The gospel finds men, as apostatized with Adam, in a state of condemnation; infants and adults alike are under the condemnatory sentence which is the result of a breach of covenant. This evil can be removed, and a restoration to favour be effected, only by an act of SOVEREIGN GRACE, whereby Christ becomes VITALLY UNITED to the soul. Without this VITAL UNION there is, there can be, no faith. This being the case, a VITAL UNION is formed before faith can have any ground of existence; and consequently a justification which is a necessary result of this union takes place.  For to him who is thus in Christ Jesus THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION; but he is passed from death unto life, as an object of MERE GRACE AND MERCY." Justification By Faith Alone

"To suppose that we are justified by our own sincere obedience, or any of our own virtue or goodness, derogates from gospel grace." Justification By Faith Alone

"Christ, in his original circumstances, was in no subjection to the Father, being altogether equal with him: he was under no obligation to put himself in man's stead, and under man's law; or to put himself into any state of subjection to God whatsoever." Justification By Faith Alone

"It is evident, by both Scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy, and that the cannot be profited by, or receive any thing from, the creature; or be the subject of any sufferings, or diminution of his glory and felicity, from any other being." The End For Which God Created The World

"It appears reasonable to suppose, that it was God's last end, that there might be a glorious and abundant emanation of his infinite fullness of good ad extra, or without himself; and that the disposition to communicate himself, or diffuse his own fullness, was what moved him to create the world. But here I observe, that there would be some impropriety in saying that a disposition in God to communicate himself to the creature moved him to create the world... Therefore, to speak strictly according to truth, we may suppose that a disposition in God, as an original property of his nature, to an emanation of his own infinite fullness, was what excited him to create the world; and so, that the emanation itself was aimed at by him as a last end of the creation." The End For Which God Created The World

"God's love to himself, and his own attributes, will therefore make him delight in that which is the use, end, and operation of these attributes... So that in delighting in the expressions of his perfections, he manifests a delight in himself; and in making these expressions of his own perfections his end, he makes himself his end." The End For Which God Created The World

"What God aimed at in the creation of the world, as the end which he had ultimately in view, was that communication of himself which he intended through all eternity." The End For Which God Created The World

"Though he [God] has real pleasure in the creature's holiness and happiness, yet this is not properly any pleasure which he receives from the creature. For these things are what he gives the creature. They are wholly and entirely from him. His rejoicing therein is rather a rejoicing in his own acts, and his own glory expressed in those acts, than a joy derived from the creature. God's joy is dependent on nothing besides his own act, which he exerts with an absolute and independent power." The End For Which God Created The World

"These expressions plainly mean no more, than that God is absolutely independent of us; that we have nothing of our own, no stock from whence we can give to God; and that no part of his happiness originates from man." The End For Which God Created The World

"Nothing from the creature alters God's happiness, as though it were changeable either by increase or diminution." The End For Which God Created The World

"Now if God himself be his last end, then in his dependence on his end, he depends on nothing but himself. If all things be of him, and to him, and he the first and the last, this shows him to be all in all. He is all to himself. He goes not out of himself in what he seeks; but his desires and pursuits as they originate from, so they terminate in, himself; and he is dependent on none but himself in the beginning or end of any of his exercises or operations." The End For Which God Created The World

"It is a regard to himself that disposes him [God] to diffuse and communicate himself. It is such a delight in his own internal fullness and glory that disposes him to an abundant effusion and emanation of that glory. The same disposition that inclines him to delight in his glory, causes him to delight in the exhibitions, expressions, and communications of it." The End For Which God Created The World

"We should be willing to engage in and go through great undertakings, in order to our own salvation... Men have no reason to expect to be saved in idleness, or to go to heaven in a way of doing nothing. No; in order to it, there is a great work, which must be not only begun, but finished." The Manner In Which The Salvation Of The Soul Is To Be Sought

"If we would be saved, we must seek salvation. For although men do not obtain heaven of themselves, yet they do not go thither accidentally, or without any intention or endeavours of their own. The Manner In Which The Salvation Of The Soul Is To Be Sought

"Men are not saved on the account of any work of theirs, and yet they are not saved without works... Though it be not needful that we do any thing to merit salvation, which Christ hath fully merited for all who believe in him; yet God, for wise and holy ends, hath appointed, that we should come to final salvation in no other way, but that of good works done by us." The Manner In Which The Salvation Of The Soul Is To Be Sought

"There is no business in which men have so much need of seeking to God by prayer, for his counsel, and that he would lead them in the right way, and show them the strait gate. For strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it; yea, there are none that find it without direction from heaven." The Manner In Which The Salvation Of The Soul Is To Be Sought

"A day of wrath is coming; it will come at its appointed season; it will not tarry, it shall not be delayed one moment beyond its appointed time... So when wicked men, who neglect their great work in their lifetime, who are not willing to go through the difficulty and labour of this work [of salvation], draw near to death, they sometimes do many things to escape death, and put forth many endeavours to lengthen out their lives at least a little longer... They cry to God; they confess their past sins; they promise future reformation; and, oh! what would they not give for some small addition to their lives, or some hope of future happiness. But all proves in vain: God hath numbered their days and finished them; and as they have sinned away the day of grace, they must even bear the consequence, and for ever lie down in sorrow." The Manner In Which The Salvation Of The Soul Is To Be Sought

"It is by the mixture of counterfeit religion with true, not discerned and distinguished, that the devil has had his greatest advantage against the cause and kingdom of Christ." Religious Affections

"Trials, above all other things, have a tendency to distinguish between true religion and false, and to cause the difference between them evidently to appear." Religious Affections

"If ever we obtain forgiveness and favour with God, he must pardon that guilt and injury towards his majesty, which is immensely greater than the greatest injuries that ever men are guilty of one towards another, yea, than the sum of all their injuries put together, let them be ever so many, and ever so great; so that the latter would be but as an hundred pence to ten thousand talents, which immense debt we owe to God, and have nothing to pay; which implies, that we have no merit to countervail any part of our guilt. And this must be, because if all that may be called virtue in us, be compared with our ill desert, it is in the sight of God as nothing to it." The Great Christian Doctrine Of Original Sin Defended