12 true signs of gracious affections
Resulting from true and genuine conversions:
A new birth, or regeneration
A new transcendental perspective in daily life that focuses on God’s glory.
A love for the loveliness of divine things.
A "new taste" that combines "heat with light"; understanding is essential but insufficient by itself.
A deep conviction of an immediate sense of divinity and total control of self by the truths of the gospel.
An evangelical rather than legal illumination.
A radical change of nature that results in conversion.
A genuine love for and meekness towards others.
A Christian tenderness towards others.
A kind of symmetry or proportion of all the foregoing affections.
A desire for a growing relationship with God.
A gracious love that manifests itself in behaviour. [Jonathan Edwards]



















