True and False Christians (On the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins) (Biblia.com)

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The first volume of Sermons contains a previously unpublished series by Edwards on Jesus’ parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins from Matthew 25. It presents an important look into Edwards’ developing thought on the nature of sainthood and related topics of theoretical and practical Christianity, particularly in the context of widespread spiritual renewal. Edwards preached these sermons in the...

Edwards asserts, “is done away no further than grace prevails.” Godly individuals still have love to sin; they have “two principles” warring in them. As Chamberlain puts it in her study of this discourse, “Hypocrites resemble saints because they are capable of a wide variety of religious beliefs and actions; saints resemble hypocrites because ‘there is abundance of corruption in the hearts of true Christians as well as others.’ ”20 So true Christians may sometimes resemble false in the “corrupt frames

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