A Puritan at Heart

Daily quote from the puritans

Notes from Jonathan Edwards

‘Tis worth the while to take a great deal of pains to learn to read and understand the Scriptures.
I would have you all of you think of this.
When there is such a book that you may have, how can you be contented without beng able to read it?
How does it make you feel when you think there is a Book that is God’s own Word?
Parents should take care that their children learn…
This will be the way to be kept from the Devil…Devil can’t bear [the Bible.] Kept from hell. To be happy forever.
But if you let the Word of God alone, and never use, and you can’t expect the benefits of it…
You  must not only hear and read, etc, but you must have it sunk down into your heart. Believe. Be affected. Love the Word of God.
Written in your heart.
Must not only read and hear, but DO the things. Otherwise no good; but will be the worse for it.
And you should endeavour to understand. To that end to learn the English tongue.
If you had the Bible in your own language, I should not say so much.
Consider how much it is worth the while to go often to your Bible to hear the great God Himself speak to you.
There you may hear Christ speak.
How much better must we think this is that the word of men.
Better than the word of the wisest man of the world.
How much wiser is God than man.
Here all is true; nothing false.
Here all is wise; nothing foolish.  [Jonhathan Edwards sermon notes from a sermon to the Indians at Stockbridge]

February 29, 2008 - Posted by Deejay | Johnathan Edwards | | No Comments

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