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Джонатан Эдвардс

— американский конгрегационалист-проповедник из города Нортгемптон, который отстаивал возвращение к пуританскому образу жизни первых колонистов. Считается величайшим богословом и проповедником эпохи Великого пробуждения. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Октябрь 1703 – 22. Март 1758   •   Другие имена جوناثان إدواردز, Ҷонатан Эдвардс, جاناتان ادواردز, Ionathan Edwards
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“You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.”

Jonathan Edwards книга Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

“Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."”

Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 509.

“I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.”

Jonathan Edwards книга The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

“The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.”

"The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), from the notebook The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature (published 1948).

“A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.”

Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 106.

“This dictate of common sense.”

Jonathan Edwards книга The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

“A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.”

Jonathan Edwards книга The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners

The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners (1734).

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

-Romans iv. 5. The following things may be noted in this verse:...That justification respects a man as ungodly. This is evident by these words,—that justifieth the ungodly; which cannot imply less, than that God, in the act of justification, has no regard to any thing in the person justified, as godliness, or any goodness in him; but that immediately before this act, God beholds him only as an ungodly creature...
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)