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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...

VIII. True grace-filled feeling is different from false, delusional emotions, in that spiritual feeling is accompanied by the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temperament of Jesus Christ; it makes us more like Christ. In other words, spiritual emotions give birth to the same spirit of love, gentleness, quietness, forgiveness, and mercy that appeared in Christ. The evidence for this in scripture is abundant. In fact, the spirit we have just described might be called the very spirit of the gospel, the Christian