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Religious Affections: True Faith Shows Itself in the Fruit of the Spirit and Christlike Living is unavailable, but you can change that!

You probably know him for preaching the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—but Jonathan Edwards had much more to say about the Christian life. The central figure in New England’s first Great Awakening, Edwards offers a detailed description of the signs—true and false—of conversion, while highlighting the role truly balanced emotions play within the Christian life. He takes a long, hard...

IV. The grace-filled feeling of the heart springs from a spiritually enlightened mind. Holy feeling is not emotion without understanding. True “religious affections” are born from intellectual understanding, some spiritual instruction that the mind receives. Children of God are affected by grace when they see and understand a little more about divine things than they did before; they have a clearer concept of God and the glorious things shown in the gospel. In some cases, they may receive new light
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