Jonathan Edwards on Faith
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections 2
Persons may seem to have love to God and Christ, yea, to have very strong and violent affections of this nature, and yet have no grace.
A natural principle of self-love may be the foundation of great affections towards God and Christ, without seeing anything of the beauty and glory of the divine nature.
Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards 4
It is God that gives us faith whereby we close with Christ.
Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.
There is not only a rational belief that God is holy and that holiness is a good thing, but there is a sense of the loveliness of God’s holiness.
He does not merely rationally believe that God is glorious, but he has a sense of the gloriousness of God in his heart.