Assurance Not So Much By Self Examination As By Action - Puritan Jonathan Edwards #shorts #Jesus

Assurance Not So Much By Self Examination As By Action - Puritan Jonathan Edwards #shorts #Jesus

1 Peter 1:8 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

8 and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory

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Introduction

00:18:06 Ch 1. Concerning the Nature of the Affections and their Importance in Religion

Ch 2. Showing what are no certain signs that religious affections are gracious, or that they are not

Ch 3. Showing what are distinguishing signs of truly gracious and holy affections

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Jonathan Edwards - (1703-1758), American puritan theologian and philosopher

Edwards was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, to Timothy Edwards, pastor of East Windsor, and Esther Edwards. The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale in September, 1716 when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later (1720) as valedictorian. He received his Masters three years later.

As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God. He once wrote, "From my childhood up my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me." However, in 1721 he came to the conviction, one he called a "delightful conviction." He was meditating on 1 Timothy 1:17, and later remarked, "As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from any thing I ever experienced