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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...

V. True grace-filled emotions are accompanied by reasonable evidence and a spiritual conviction that is based on divine reality. People who are truly filled with grace have a solid, full, thorough, and active conviction of the gospel’s truth. They are no longer frozen between two opinions. They no longer doubt the gospel’s doctrines. For them, all this is settled now, and thus they can venture all their being on the truth they know to be real. All that Christ revealed during His life is of infinite