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The author’s object in this book is to distinguish between true and false religion by showing the marks of a saving work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. In his Preface, Edwards stresses the importance of using “our utmost endeavors clearly to discern ... wherein true religion does consist.” For “till this be done, it may be expected that great revivings of religion will be but of short...
glory.” The apostle seems to have respect to each of these benefits, that persecutions are of to true religion, in the verse preceding the text. And, in the text, the apostle observes how true religion operated in the Christians he wrote to, under their persecutions, whereby these benefits of persecution appeared in them; or what manner of operation of true religion, in them, it was, whereby their religion, under persecution, was manifested to be true religion, and eminently appeared in the genuine
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