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A Treatise concerning Religious Affections
A treatise concerning religious affections, in three parts. Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections, and their importance in religion. Part II. Showing what are no certain signs that religious affections are gracious, or that they are not. Part III. Showing what are distinguishing signs of truly gracious and holy affections. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. and Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]A treatise concerning religious affections, in three parts. Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections, and their importance in religion. Part II. Shewing what are no certain signs that religious affections are gracious, or that they are not. Part III. Shewing what are distinguishing signs of truly gracious and holy affections. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. and Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed for S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1746
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Whom having not seen, ye love: In whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with Joy unspeakable, and full of Glory.
IN these Words, the Apostle represents the State of the Minds of the Christians he wrote to, under the Persecutions they were then the Subjects of. These Persecutions are what he has Respect to, in the two preceding Verses, when he speaks of the Trial of their Faith, and of their being in Heaviness through manifold Temptations.
IN these Words, the Apostle represents the State of the Minds of the Christians he wrote to, under the Persecutions they were then the Subjects of. These Persecutions are what he has Respect to, in the two preceeding Verses, when he speaks of the Trial of their Faith, and of their being in Heaviness through manifold Temptations.
Such Trials are of threefold Benefit to true Religion: Hereby the Truth of it is manifested, and it appears to be indeed true Religion: They, above all other Things, have a Tendency to distinguish between true Religion and false, and to cause the Difference between them evidently to appear. Hence they are called by the Name of Trials, in the Verse nextly preceding the Text, and in innumerable other Places: They try the Faith and Religion of Professors, of what Sort it is, as apparent Gold is tried in the Fire, and manifested,