A Puritan at Heart

Daily quote from the puritans

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]
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