#jonathan edwards

[thescienceofapologetics]

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin which made it necessary.

- Jonathan Edwards

[jesusrei]

"Quanto mais um verdadeiro cristão ama a Deus, mais deseja amá-lo e mais inquieto fica por sua falta de amor por Ele". Jonathan Edwards

[coloradocowgirlforchrist]

“A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God’s wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.”

– Jonathan Edwards

[m-accost]

Far from the city and far

From the assembly's clamor,

Far too from Time (that is Change),

Edwards, eternal now, dreams

And approaches the shade of

Golden trees. Yesterday is

Today and tomorrow is

Today. Nothing of God's is

There, within that atmosphere

Serene, that fails to exalt

It enigmatically,

Be it the Moon's gold or

The afternoon's. Happy, he

Thinks the world an eternal

Instrument of wrath, and thinks

Coveted Heaven was made

For few, Hell, for almost all.

The thicket's exact center

Holds another prisoner:

God, the Spider.

-My unworthy attempt at translating Borges' haunting poem "Jonathan Edwards (1703-1785)"

[icannotbejondenden47]

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

Jonathan Edwards

[lanfykins]

Have you ever read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," the famous sermon of Burr's illustrious grandfather?

It is, and I cannot stress this enough, a whole THING.

"So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up one moment; the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out: and they have no interest in any Mediator, there are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of; all that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God."

It really is a wonder that Burr wasn't more fucked up.

[set-apart-path]

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

Jonathan Edwards

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

All the beauty to be found throughout the whole creation is but the reflection of the diffused beams of the Being who hath an infinite fullness of brightness and glory.

Jonathan Edwards