"One of the main ends for which God has ordained that his word, delivered in holy Scriptures, should be explained and supplied in preaching was, evidently, that divine things might be thus impressed upon the affections of men. ...
...the devil sees it to be to his advantage to go another way to work, and to endeavor, to the utmost of his power, to propagate and establish a persuasion that all affections and emotions of the mind, with respect o religion, are to be disregarded, or rather opposed , as having a pernicious tendency. This he knows is the likeliest way to reduce all religion to a mere lifeless formality, and effectually to banish the power of godliness, and everything that is truly gracious. For although in true religion there is something more than affection, yet it consists so much in the affections that there can be no true religion without them. He who has no religious affections is in the state of spiritual death, wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon His heart. As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection."
Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise on Religious Affections ; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI. 1992,
pgs.37, 43,44.
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...the devil sees it to be to his advantage to go another way to work, and to endeavor, to the utmost of his power, to propagate and establish a persuasion that all affections and emotions of the mind, with respect o religion, are to be disregarded, or rather opposed , as having a pernicious tendency. This he knows is the likeliest way to reduce all religion to a mere lifeless formality, and effectually to banish the power of godliness, and everything that is truly gracious. For although in true religion there is something more than affection, yet it consists so much in the affections that there can be no true religion without them. He who has no religious affections is in the state of spiritual death, wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon His heart. As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection."
Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise on Religious Affections ; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI. 1992,
pgs.37, 43,44.
Blogs to return Monday
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